Well, I don’t know what Florida’s like now, but we enjoyed our time there, even
if it was living in part of Tampa. Dale Mabry seemed to us to be part of the
culture of the USA: a long, straight road with loads of different signs set up,
higgledy piggledy, along it.
It wasn’t far from a good beach at Fort de Soto; parts of Florida were very
pretty and we lived in a decent little condo on Bayshore Boulevard, not far
from Ballast Point. Yes, Hillsborough Bay was a bit smelly at times, and
having only 2 seasons was a bit boring, but we enjoyed our stay and made some
good friends.
I was glad to come home to the UK, but then that would have been the case for
any part of the USA; I couldn’t live there. I wouldn’t mind visiting again,
with our sons, for a bit of nostalgia, but that might not work either.
Chris
p.s. Ken, that should be “. . . are two reasons . . .” :-) cb
> On 31 Oct 2014, at 06:25, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Well, depends. I lived in Gainesville for 3 years. It is the site of the main
> campus of the Florida state university system, and is therefore a very
> pleasant college town with relatively progressive politics and much more
> cultural offerings than many big cities. I then moved to Tampa for my first
> full-time job out of graduate school, and found that my quality of life had
> plummetted. Tampa had all the disadvantages of a big city: congestion, crime,
> etc., but none of the advantages (culture, Latin spirit like in Miami etc.).
> The road on which I commuted to work, Dale Mabry Highway, was elected among
> America’s 10 ugliest roads in some travel magazine during the time I lived
> there, and I cannot really disagree. So when I got a job offer in New Jersey,
> I was happy to accept it for a variety of reasons, and getting out of Tampa
> was one of them, albeit not the main one.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
>
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>
> On 30 Oct 2014, at 17:51, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> Reminds me a bit of my 3 years living in Tampa in the late 80s, a place I
>>> was only happy to leave when the opportunity arose.
>>
>> There really is only two reasons for me to even contemplate Florida:
>> January and February.
>>
>> AG
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