I don’t know what we were thinking.
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4/26/2018
Median salary here is $55K but average rent prices for a one bedroom start at $1200 for maybe 600 square feet. Forget about living in a house. The only affordable ones are in the hood surrounded by crime. (Drugs, burglary, grand theft, etc. check the crime stats through the sheriff’s department.) The traffic is awful. It takes 40 minutes to drive 6 miles and car insurance continues to skyrocket because there are so many bad drivers causing accidents. Avoid I4/275 if you value your life. There’s weed everywhere and it stinks. Gentrification is the city’s number one priority. Rent prices have increased twenty percent in two years and the housing market is garbage. Everything is overpriced for what it is. The demographic is predominantly white people who try to act like they’re classy but really just enjoy white privledge and white people activities like Hockey and trashy bars in Ybor. There is a ton of racism in the area. A TON! It doesn’t matter what shade of off white you are, there’s a white person every ten feet who will side eye you or have some remark to make. The sherrif has so much time on their hands that they pull people over repeatedly in a five mile stretch for absolutely no reason. They profile drivers and do absolutely nothing when you call them repeatedly about neighborhood drug activity. This place is like Detroit with more uppity white people, a sporadic art community , overpriced and unsafe entertainment, the number one pastime here is drinking so, have fun avoiding people drunk driving along with texting and driving. It’s impossible to move out of this place because the major corps pay garbage wages. If Tampa isn’t careful, it’s going to end up like a lot of struggling former metropolises. There are a ton of places that are better to live. And they don’t have any good beaches. You have to drive at least an hour (20 miles) for a good beach. The suburbs are worse.
Christine | Riverview, FL