DO NOT Move To Tampa | Living in Tampa Florida

They population explosion here is insane. Traffic is a nightmare

Every year local officials/pols discuss public transportation, & every year, it goes nowhere. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Bottom line is.....be prepared. On all these levels. Move there with an escape from realities of life, your gonna hit bumps along the way. Its not paradise 24/7. Be reziliant not resistant.
Go lightning 🏒🥅

I do avoid Tampa. I hate Florida in general and want to move. It is a hell hole.

‘Extreme Heat” is a gross understatement. He is right…at one time, this was one of the best places to live in the USA….it’s NOT now. The beaches are NOT natural and the blazing sun and heat every bloody day is horrible.

Yes we natives would love more than anything if Yankees would quit flooding the entire state not just Tampa..You don't see us nativves moving in droves up north, they need to give us the same respect..

Wrong. The Tampa area is the best area in florida... ask Tom Brady 😊

Don't forget to ask about sink hole. This is sink hole alley. A guy in my dad's neighborhood had a house built but was never able to move in. It was declare disaster bc of a sink hole. My good friend move from near Lakeland area 2 moths before sink hole took house and one brother of the two sleeping in the bedroom. His body was never recovered. You'll be lucky if your water table is one foot down. Also stay away from the Bay and RIVERS.
It might be impossible to get insurance. Don't expect insurance to pay even half the cost if you get hit by "hurricane" or sometimes worse a "tropical storm".
Lots of different names for severe storms.

IMPACT FEES SHOULD TRIPPLE .FOR Ifrastucture.

Welcome to the jungle!

Please stop showing the Gulf Coast beaches because that will make people want to move here. Gators can climb chain link fences to enjoy your pool or eat your dog. Plus gators do enjoy salt water to get rid of parasites. So, if you value your life don’t move to Tampa!😎

We're in this area since 2004. Holiday in Pasco for 4 years and Pinellas Park since 2008. About 2/3 of the year the weather can be fine. The other third, you wouldn't want to be here but for AC.
The beach in that third is not fun for long, ( also, just a couple of dog friendly beaches here, and one, FT Desoto you have to pay to get on ) and if you like ocean-like surf ( only surfing is boogie boards ), the Gulf will disappoint because it's like a warm pond with barely a breaker. Of course, every commercial building has AC so if you like to shop or eat out your good ( talk about all that CO2 adding to the atmosphere making all these hurricanes bigger and ramping up so much faster). Since 2017 three I-named hurricanes were predicted to be on course with the Bay, and only by chance Tampa dodged direct hits every time. Just a matter of time.

Wait till you find out about st petersburg and tampa pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of raw sewage in the bay every day. The tides move it back and forth.

Native Tampa man here been here 60 years my mother first moved here in1946., im not going anywhere i love my town.

Born and raised Tampon here 😂😂
Fun fact, alligators can and will climb fences and trees, so if your aim is to keep them out, don't use chain link or anything with footholds they can use. Otherwise, this is a great, very accurate video, imo.

I have no intrest in living in any city with no car. Whats your opinioin on Miami. I heard its really walkable

I have lived in Tampa my entire life and I was waiting for you to you get to people... I think its time-out tell these folks about the Florida man phenomenon 😅

You’ve done a great job with this vid! I relocated from Columbus, OH to Charlotte, NC and today makes my 3rd year in Charlotte. I really like it, but I also really enjoy the time that I have spent in Tampa. My sister just relocated to Tampa and lives in Riverview. I have until June of 2024 to make my decision to head further south. I am still terrified of the “Palmetto (cockroaches) Bugs” but I’d rather deal with them then going through another Polar Vortex in Ohio! New follower of your channel! 😊

Stay up North
We're FULL

Isn't flood insurance expensive?

I avoid the whole south. 🤡

This is Florida big guy, If you leave water in the bathtub too long you will get an alligator in it.

It's always funny how people picture beaches and palms when they think about Tampa.... When that is actually Clearwater 😂 (which is why I moved to CLW and not Tampa)

I love the style of your videos. Thank you.

Don’t move to Florida. We are done with people moving here.

Lol. I live over in Polk and won't even drive to TIA to pick up friends.

The Tampa Bay area is becoming like Miami, construction everywhere .

I wouldn't live anywhere in florida! I live in California and if you wanna talk expensive, well! But you couldn't give me a free house in that heckhole!

You should move back to Detroit.

And no one from any blue state should be moving here. You will hate all this freedom and non liberal attitudes

So stay away

Just don't move here. Tampa is full. Go away.

Yeah don’t move here. It’s awful beaches and always cloudy days (lightning capital of the world too!). Plus alligators and sting rays (RIP STEVE Irwin ) and traffic is bad enough already. Plus it’s way too hot.

PS
Hey TB. See ya this weekend at Shepherds. Bring lots of SPF.

If you live on a shoestring, this is all nonsense. Gentrification is making it impossible for the ones who have to make a living here. And the jerky political structure doesn’t make things any better.

Tampa is full of Ebonics speakers, which means HIGH crime

Avoid Florida on the whole, just not Tampa.

Stop promoting us, we don't need nobody else moving down here.

Why not just put up a sign with a smiling Alligator saying "Hi come on down to Florida!!! i won't bite you(lol)-

FL retirement is attractive for no state tax on retirement income. What we didn't realize was auto and home insurance costs are triple what they were in the DC area, and in a state prone to hurricanes flood insurance is EXTRA which few can afford. Many insurers have now left FL, and the ones like State Farm are no longer part of the National Chain, therefore cannot draw from the SF national honey-pot. Thus, since it is only state wide, State Farm FL lets you cover the upcharge for the privilege of living here.

Florida's vindictive Nazi governor and gerrymandered legislature are destroying what was left of the state after Jeb and Rick Scott had their runs of crime and vice. Your state can follow a similar path - just vote Republican and you too can live in a ditch while owning the libs.

I moved to Clearwater 3/2021. My rent has increased from $1325 to $1675 for a 2 bed 1 bath. (+ $71 water, trash and pest control) My car insurance is $216/month for a 2013 Hyundai Accent Hatchback. My electric runs $200/month.

Hmmmm…. Don’t know if I’d still consider it affordable there. Sky rocketing insurance and property taxes. Besides folks like yourself inviting everyone and their mother to come live there. Not going to get any better. That’s for sure.

This area is unaffordable to live here. Today is July 29 th and the price of gas here in Brooksville gas is $3.69 a gallon.
Rent here is totally unaffordable and there is no affordable housing for the middle class and lower class.
Amtrak runs outta Tampa to Miami. Do not let people tell you that Brightline is the only rail service that runs to Miami.

The reality of gators of being in every bit of fresh water here is true. Gators can climb fences. During mating season gators travel from any and every body of water looking for a mate. Coyotes also climb fences. There are all kinds of predators here that will kill your small dog or cat. And will even attack humans.

Please don’t move here. Everyone is moving here and it’s ruining my hometown. They’re tearing down all the wetlands and building apartment condos on them all and everything tearing up natural habitats to make room for more people. It’s so sad to see what’s happening to my hometown.

You can get use to Florida’s weather I live here for 30 years and only first year was bad but after that we kind of like it…we live close to Ft.Laud …bugs,lizards,snakes,Ali gators and iguanas don’t bother us any more

I live in St Pete and avoid Tampa at all costs. I hate driving over there

florida is a few storms away from insurancd chaos. the state will have to ensure everyone and then that cat 5 comes in and the state is broke

The homeowners insurance crisis is no joke. Too bad about the book banning and the anti choice in schools and for women too. Your governor is a wannabe dictator and you people voted for him.