We relocated here in the early 80s Brandon was a nice rural bedroom community outside Tampa about 12 miles away development was orderly up until about the 1990s and then succession of housing spurts resulted in high dense population very bad traffic it takes you an hour plus to get from Brandon to the local military base a major employer in the area, it'll take you 45 minutes to get to downtown Tampa where most people work Brandon feels more like North Jersey outside New York City. The Tampa Channelside area is undergoing a Renaissance attracting the Yuppie crowd they are putting in 40 story condos in order to attract the high-income professionals for a higher tax base. north Tampa was a low income mixed community single houses and low income housing with the attendant crime. Due to the desire of Tampa to accomplish gentrification of the once small-town nature they have encouraged the meth heads etc Junkies, Petty criminals and other questionable types to vacate the area thus they have relocated to the Brandon area panhandlers are pretty common and they spend their money on drugs they sleep behind shopping centers in dark areas of the loading docks of many of the major stores. There was some the recent looting in July 2020 along Dale Mabry a major Tampa thoroughfare the effort to arrest individuals seem to be somewhat muted no doubt to political interference seen in major democratic controlled cities. Brandon is not the rural community with an idyllic good life it once was and that's truly a tragic situation. I am making plans to move to the north but still remain in the South a place where you can walk at night and not have to worry about a junkie.
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