This practical and lively guide is essential if you are planning to make Tampa your new home. “Moving to Tampa: The Un-Tourist Guide” provides all the vital information you need to make yourself quickly at home.
Not just another pretty place, Tampa is a vibrant city boasting and hosting a world class, international airport, professional sports teams, high-end retail, fine dining experiences, multi-national companies, state information you need to make yourself quickly at home. -of-the-art medical facilities, colleges and universities, MacDill Air Force Base and so much more.
Tampa is an ideal place to start a career, start a family or start enjoying retirement.
Our goal is to help you make the most of our town by showing you how to:
- Choose a place to live that suits your lifestyle
- Determine the best schools
- Relocate your business or launch a new one
- Find the best shopping and dining
- Participate in the festivals, cultural offerings, and outdoor opportunities
- Assimilate quickly within your community
READ THIS BOOK TO FIND WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT:
- Cost of living
- Utilities
- Real estate
- Art, music, and other culture
- Furniture and interior design
- Enjoying the outdoors
- Fashion and shopping
- Grocers and gourmet shops
- Pre-K through high school choices
- Associations and community groups
- Moving tips
- Finding a job or starting a business
- Tampa neighborhoods
- Property taxes
- History of Tampa
- Healthcare resources
- Renting vs. buying
- Infant and toddler care
- Colleges and universities
- Local media
- How to dress for Florida climate
- Sports teams
- Fitness opportunities
- Boating and beaches
- Economic development
- Important phone numbers and websites
. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
Newt Barrett loves the Tampa area for its affordability, its broad range of communities, its outdoor activities, its lively arts scene, and its wonderful dining choices. Tampa has all the best that Southwest Florida has to offer. He is delighted to author the 2nd Edition of Moving to Tampa: The Un-Tourist Guide®. It builds on the excellent work of the 1st Edition’s author Mary Lou Janson, who was unable to work on the 2nd Edition. Newt Barrett has more than 30 years of publishing experience as both a manager and business owner. Newt launched multimillion dollar publications in the high-tech arena for both CMP Media and Ziff-Davis. Voyager Media, Inc. was founded in 1997 by Newt and Maxine Barrett to launch Southwest Florida Business Magazine and its online site, BusinessNewsNow.com. After 5 successful years, Voyager sold the magazine, which still thrives as Gulfshore Business. Voyager Media and the Birth of 'The Un-Tourist Guides' Like so many professionals who've had to make dozens of moves during his career, Newt often wished that there had been a comprehensive guide to the many new towns which became home to him and Maxine, often for relatively brief periods--Chicago, New York, Stamford Ct., Maryland, Boston, Cleveland, and San Francisco. Since 1997, they have made their home in the Southwest Florida, which is just big enough to have lots of amenities but not so big as to be overwhelming. During a visit to France, they were inspired by a French book, S'Installer a Toulouse (Make yourself at home in Toulouse), which offered lots of information new residents would require if they were to make a move to that city. Upon returning to the United States, research showed that there was a genuine need for books that provided essential information for new residents in small to medium-sized towns that were particularly appealing for people of all ages. So, beginning with their then hometown they created Moving to Naples: The Un-Tourist Guide, written by longtime Naples resident, Alysia Shivers. The objective of this book and those that follow is to provide new and prospective residents all information they need to make themselves at home quickly and easily--or to decide whether a particular town is right for them and their families.
