can’t leave without it
I like this Thursday evening question thing. It gives me a respite from all the crazy things the city and county do. You may recall two weeks ago I asked you to rate your satisfaction of living in the Tampa area. Seventeen people responded, and thirteen of those ranked living in Tampa Bay from 1 to 10. With 1 being “can’t wait to get out of this place” and 10 being “I love it here and will never leave,” the average of the thirteen is just over 7.3, while the median is 7.5
Only two ranked living here a five or less, although another commenter states “I won’t be retiring here.” Six of those leaving a score went with 8 or higher, including one perfect ten.
On to the new one:
Your friends or family are coming to Tampa Bay from out of state. What’s the one thing you tell them they cannot miss while visiting here (besides this blog, of course)?
Tags: quality of life, ranks, tampa, things to do
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July 21st, 2005 at 6:58 pm
My mother and 3 year old brother are coming to visit soon and I’ll be taking them on a Dolphin Cruise from the St Pete Pier. You see a dolphin or it’s free
July 21st, 2005 at 7:12 pm
That’s funny, because I just had two friends here for a week, my first visitors since moving here from Ohio. So I asked myself that exact question.
Honestly, I think that St. Pete Beach is the nicest thing we have going for us here. It’s a gorgeous beach and there’s all sorts of interesting activities down there.
July 21st, 2005 at 9:57 pm
Tampa Theatre - it is so cool!
July 21st, 2005 at 11:31 pm
I’m also going to have to go with Tampa Theatre. The first time you sit in that theater, tilt your head back and look at the starry ceiling and the beautiful architecture is an amazing experience. Better than the movie itself, no matter what it is!
July 22nd, 2005 at 8:33 am
I often take my visitors either to Fort DeSoto beach for the beach folk(they are amazed at how prestine and beautiful and keep raving about it) or Tampa Theater for the artsy folk, and I keep hearing about that one too!
July 22nd, 2005 at 9:52 am
Me, of course. But if you want a place, I’d say Tampa Theater is near the top of my list.
July 22nd, 2005 at 9:57 am
I like to take visitors to Ybor City at night on the weekend. It’s actually more weird than Bourbon Street, N.O.. Where else can you see an attractive young lady with a tatoo of “the Rock” on her arm. You can get soul food and Greek food. You have disco and goth. You can get mugged, score dope, see penis pillows and gothic statuaries in store front windows, shop for moldy clothes and vinyl, ride a trolley to the port of Tampa, and drink like a fish.
July 22nd, 2005 at 11:11 am
I have never even heard of Tampa Theatre! Yikes!
July 22nd, 2005 at 12:59 pm
Clearwater Beach in the afternoon / evening with the new toursit stuff. Of course I also would warn about traffic getting out there.
July 22nd, 2005 at 2:30 pm
actually, clearwater beach is an excellent choice, because you can give them the tour of Clearwater’s Scientology-imposed misery.
July 22nd, 2005 at 3:15 pm
Big Top Flea Market and Suitcase City. The corner of Fowler and Nebreaska rules!
July 22nd, 2005 at 5:41 pm
Tommy, sorry, please delete the prior mistakes.
Here is the link to Tampa Theatre http://www.tampatheatre.org/
July 22nd, 2005 at 10:47 pm
Oh Cheese is Christ!!!! The rest of you are hooked on sandburn and make this place sound like the most boring place on earth.
The Beach???? Oh f—en love of god what a snoozer…..yawn to you and your prematurely aging melanomas!!!
July 26th, 2005 at 5:36 pm
My friend showed me around UT (Univ Tampa) when I first came here and I thought it was pretty cool. No necessarily a tourist attraction but the spires are neat to look at.
October 12th, 2005 at 5:06 pm
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