Thread 2822901

>have to travel to tampa in a october
>looking around there is absolutely nothing to do
why do such cities exist

>>2822901 (OP)
Occasionally some good music acts come through tampa/st. pete/ybor
Sarasota has some of the nicest beaches in Florida

potemkin village for retirees

Only good part of Florida unironically seems to be the nig-spic colony of Miami. What a shit state.

>>2822906
I can tell you aren't Floridian

>>2822901 (OP)

Tampa is for living, it's not for tourists. It's a fun city. Orgies are easy to find if you're into that.

>>2822902
So basically it's just a place for people to live
Decent weather, enough stores, and enough other useless eaters to be a draw for second tier touring acts

>>2822935
I bet they are. I assume everyone smokes at them

>>2822901 (OP)
The aquarium is a famous draw. St Pete has gentrified a lot in recent years, the downtown is worth checking out if you have money and are willing to spend it on dining out and other stuff that overweight retired boomers like to do.

>>2822901 (OP)
>not liking busch gardens
>not liking the beach

>>2822901 (OP)
get in a little boat and go really fast up and down the waterways

Go to Busch Gardens, hang out in Channelside, go to Ybor for a Cuban sandwich and a cigar, see a Lightning game, visit the aquarium, etc. there is plenty to do.

>>2823306
this sounds like a terribly boring place
>amusement park for 100 dollars
>aquarium for 50 bucks
>ham and cheese
>cured leaf jew
>men in tight pants throwing ball to each other
yikes!
no culture, nothing special or unique

>>2823307
You genuinely sound like an insufferable cunt. Just hop a flight to SEA with every other loser on this board.

>>2822966
>FL
>decent weather
Tallahassee is not Miami. Jacksonville is not Fort Myers
The weather sucks in South Florida. It's hot as balls and humid. Forget about spending any significant time outside unless you want to destroy your skin

>>2822901 (OP)
I am a native Floridian, local history expert, and former professional tour guide. Florida isn't anything like what it used to be (for worse) but there are still plenty of decent things about it. If you can let me know what your interests are, I'd be able to tell you anything you want about the area OP.

>>2823350
The heat, humidity and sunshine is no worse in South Florida than it is in any other tropical climate around the world. Excessive use of A/C is to blame for so many Florida transplants bitching about the hawwible heat. If you kept your A/C set at 77+ degrees, your body would adapt for radiative heat dissipation instead of heat retention, and the warm climate would feel perfectly comfortable.

>>2822901 (OP)
all US cities look soulless to me

>>2822901 (OP)
I would park up by the Glazier art museum and do the Tampa riverwalk down to the east end and continue walking to American Victory Ship & museum and Florida Aquarium which are right next door to each other and fun stops. You get to see quite a bit just by doing that. I guess check if the Straz theater has anything while you're there.
Busch Gardens is fine if you like coasters but if you want more zoo, then Zootampa is better.

>>2822902
>>2823306
ybor is a nigger shithole, don't be shilling that place to OP.

Is there anything actually worth doing in Tampa? Besides eating and drinking and being forced into the cesspit known as Ybor?

>>2824845
ybor is a shithole to get your degen fix which is what OP was asking for

My problem with Tampa is it's not actually a tropical city. The only palm trees that can grow more than 1-2 miles from the coast are Mexican fan palms and date palms, which are native to the deserts of Eastern California and Saudi Arabia, respectively.

Tampa gets too cold in the winter for true tropical flora, the kind you see in Miami, West Palm, Ft. Lauderdale an Naples. It's just the SAME EXACT humid subtropical marshland that comprises most of the Gulf Coast.

So you have this UGLY FLAT SWAMP that a bunch of retards tried to troon out into a tropical paradise by importing desert trees from the other side of the continent, and other retards said "Good enough for me" and moved there.

>>2826371
Some years most of Florida falls under the tropical climate classification. It all depends on whether or not an Arctic blast sweeps down the peninsula. While Florida's winter climate is warmer than SoCal and Arizona on average, the cold snaps in Florida see highs in the 40s, which is unheard of in SoCal and Arizona.

>>2826371
Right... that's why you can't grow tropical flora in Southern California and Arizona... or Tampa

>>2822901 (OP)
Florida is where people go to die

what is there to do in ybor as an obese american?

>>2826448
meant for >>2826395

>>2822913
>fuck Miami
I can tell you aren't Floridian, panhandle scum

>>2822901 (OP)
Go to Clearwater and hang out with the Scientologists. Or ignore that pary and stay at one of Florida's nicest beaches.

St Pete is the best out of the three for doing stuff tho.

>>2826828
>Miami
But what if you are not a homosexual latinx???

>>2826371
>UGLY FLAT SWAMP
Nigger that's 95% of the state since it's so fucking flat. Drive 10 miles inward out of any coastal city or town and it's just swampy areas. I'm fine with that tho. Keeps Californians out and makes me appreciate our coastlines more.

>>2826828
Oc

>>2822966
I like OP

>>2823349
NTA but your city does look boring and cheesy

>>2826974
Florida is solid red and there's nothing you can do about it

>>2827033
I'm not a zoomer born post-2000 like you. So yes, I remember Florida being THE purple swing state.

you bragging about newly arrived transplants tryhard cosplaying and trying to turn it into lower alabama or whatever is just annoying to the rest of us. fuck off

>>2827365
lmao you lost and will continue to lose forever

>>2827365
>So yes, I remember Florida being THE purple swing state.
Yeah from blatant voter fraud. Sucks to suck.

>>2822901 (OP)
That's pretty common in America but my understanding is that Tampa has it bad specifically because Orlando is tourist mecca so anyone in Tampa who wants to do something fun just goes there.

>>2828013
kill yourself election tourist

>>2827365
Comment is a good ad for ICE

Serious Florida-bros,
Where to choose to re-locate, considering between St. Pete in Old NE or Kenwood versus kinda more vibing Tampa life in Seminole Heights or South Tampa.

I think beach access would be preferred and would want to avoid shitty bridge traffic. Does Clearwater have any good local vibes places for drinks and good food?

>>2826395
LMAO

Your a dumb nigger It can as has gotten to the 30's here in Southern CA.

T. An Angelino

Go to US 19 and get some pussy

well while we're on topic
what should i do in atlanta if i have maybe 1.5 days of free time?

>>2833203
Atlanta is not related at all. It has nothing similar to Florida, and that's a bad thing. Unless you're deliberately traveling to the US to see George Floyd statues