Hey Guys, Got a job Offer from Saint Petersburg Florida, I was wondering anyone on here lives or Lived in Florida? I visited Tampa around 3 weeks ago, but I couldn't see the whole of it as it was very limited days visit. How is the Standard of living there ? cost of living (compared to SC) ? Weather ? Muslim community ? Pakistani community ?
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I like borderline love the tri-city area: Tampa, St. Pete, and Clearwater.
St. Pete is seniors city. The joke is that at sundown, the seniors turn off their hearing aids and the city workers rolls up the streets.
Clearwater is college town. All you need to know if you are young and horny.
Tampa is what I labeled as a blue collar city, meaning it is a real working city with all the usual good/bad best/wort characters of a real city.
If you are Muslim then I guess many of the Cuban sandwiches in Ybor City will be
haram to you. Lots of ham.
The annual Gasparilla Festival is Tampa's version of Mardi Gras, which is an excuse to get drunk and into fights to celebrate the pirate Jose Gaspar.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, for the longest time the shiddyest NFL team, but I cheered for them anyway because I was stationed at MacDill.
Bayshore Blvd is often called the Bayshore 500 because of the speedsters, on the other hand, Dale Mabry runs straight N/S and is often referred to as the Dale Mabry dragstrip, so be careful on both. There was a guy on Dale Mabry who often broke the speed limit just to chase airmen down to hand signaled 4 - 5 (45 mph). We have no idea what issues he had, but several times he did that to me and I just speed up on my bike just to piss him off. It has been 30 yrs so he is probably dead by now.
I
ORDER you to visit the Salvador Dali Museum. But be prepare for crowds and shiddy parking. Cannot really blame the museum because it is old and too established in St. Pete. It would cost the museum tens of millions to safely move and they have been talking about moving for decades.
The standards of living is good borderline excellent due to proximity to the beaches, which usually translate to moolah. Or as we say it in Hawai'i: Oolah moolah
. Housing is slightly more expensive, again, near the beaches. But not something outrageous like the Palm Beaches over the Florida east coast with all the PGA golf stuff.
Weather is not desert hot, cooler but with higher humidity, so I hope you got an office job.
Not much 'gators in the tri-city area, there are some, but nothing like more inland Orlando or southward where you will see plenty of 'gators.
You can run couple hrs inland for Orlando if you are into Disney. Or couple hrs more to the east coast to see the rocket launches and Cape Canaveral.
If you can afford a bike, not a bicycle, get it. However, there is a time in the yr that you should not be on a bike:
LOVEBUGS SEASON. Look it up. These damned insects ruins car paint and hurt bikers. The lovebugs are probably the Biblical locust plague. Florida is great for bike tours, especially just easy cruising on the gulf coast taking the scenic routes.
Gulf of Mexico => great seafood. Lots of semi nekkid women. See Clearwater.
Sunshine Skyway Bridge
Key West. Take one week off and visit. You will not regret the drive. But it does sucks if you are stuck behind someone towing a boat at 20 mph.
That is all I remember for now.
