If you love to look at all kinds of animals, Tampa's zoo and aquarium are both must-do attractions. If you join one, you get in there free and the other at half price.  It also has a cruise port next to the aquarium. Mom loves art museums, so she took me to several last time we went to the area, but that is just not my thing so I only liked the Dale Chihuly one. I like the airport too - very good signage and less expensive than Jacksonville.

 

But despite all this, I would never think about living there because of named storms from the Gulf of Mexico and the Buccaneers. You would never get the Jaguars on TV and hurricanes hit the city directly.

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