Tampa area guys. I might be moving to Florida for a job opportunity. What are some nice safe areas to live within 30 to 45 minutes of Tampa? Preferably more inland. Thanks.
Why more inland?
Concerned about hurricances and the resulting flooding mostly.
Keep the suggestions coming, I'm willing to check out all possibilities.
Thanks
Check out Lutz in the north part of Hillsborough county. Very quiet and rural with a lot of subdivisions. Also Land O' Lakes next to Lutz and Wesley Chapel just to the east of LOL in Pasco county. Wesley Chapel and New Tampa are nice but traffic on I-75 and Bruce B. Downs Blvd. is pretty bad. A little to the west, you'll find Odessa and Keystone which are also rural with a few subdivisions and very quiet and not as many cars. If you want to go more inland, check out Polk co. and the Lakeland area.
I live in Michigan but I'm in Florida for 5 months... I'm living in odessa / land O lakes area, 54 and the TOLL rd 589.. The traffic is horrible, it puts me into a bad mood daily. There's toll roads everywhere that cost 3-7 bucks every time I go to Tampa and back, which is pretty close, 20 miles??? I can say I have seen more auto accidents in a week here than I have in a YEAR in Detroit area, that's NO joke. People drive 75 in 50 mph zones everywhere and rear end accidents EVERYWHERE..... I promise you the traffic is something to consider...... I lived in California for 30 years and Detroit area for 15, I can't remember being so mad driving.......... The area is very nice, its actually pretty quiet. The beaches are beautiful, the sunsets are UNREAL. If you like to eat out, there's GREAT food everywhere. There's plenty of drag strips here if your into that? Bradenton motorsports seemed great. There's showtime drag strip pretty much rite in Tampa 1/8 mile track, seemed to suck but lots of people there, I could be wrong. Tampa fl seems a lot like California to me, lots of people, lots of immigrants, fast paced concrete jungle. Maybe I'm just a Michigan hillbilly.......