That explains a lot.

//It started when they tore down Webbs

Did the Florida tag off itself?

/was born in St. Pete and was happy as a clam

St Pete is awesome. That is all.

If Saint Petersburg is so awesome, why doesn't anyone from Tampa want to go there for a Rays game?

I would note the small exception to this sadness riiiiight at the southern tip of St. Pete. There's a college there which, at least in the 80s, was far too high to be sad about 99% of the time.

But yes, as a city I'd say St. Pete is pretty sad. I remember going to the Kidney Foundation Thrift Store to get clothes, which was pretty goddamn depressing in and of itself. And Tyrone Mall, which involved a half-hour drive to an ugly little pseudomecca of shopping.

However, nobody can go to Skyway Jack's and remain sad. I believe the portions are designed to squeeze all of the depression out of you (and replace it with cholesterol, but that's a different discussion).

FriarReb98: If Saint Petersburg is so awesome, why doesn't anyone from Tampa want to go there for a Rays game?

Because baseball is too boring to cross a bridge and drive through a shiatty neighborhood to get to the stadium.

Downtown St. Pete is admittedly a hell hole. The homeless situation in the park is a disgrace. But the only time I ventured into downtown was to go to concerts at Jannus Landing. But most of St. Pete is okay, some of it is nice like any other city.

Tampa has Hispanic Historic Ybor City and nice areas as well.

No Florida tag or Sad tag?

The entire state of Florida smells like boiled ass.

My guess is because it's so remote. When you get into the belly of the beast that is Florida, you can't take off on a road trip without having to go back through a shiat ton of Florida before you escape.

sigdiamond2000: The entire state of Florida smells like boiled ass.

No, that's just the parts south of Ocala. The rest smells more poached.

rocketpants: MayoSlather: Orlando is a much nicer city

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My thoughts exactly. Orlando is layers of fail, unless I guess you're a tourist taking your shiat machine to Disney to enjoy a weekend of getting wallet raped and soul sucked.

Xenolith: New College is in Bradenton, not St. Pete.

He was probably referring to Eckerd College

/2nd generation native
//stuck in Wisconsin, which is truly depressing

FingHostile: dahmers love zombie: There's a college there which, at least in the 80s, was far too high to be sad about 99% of the time.i>

That's Eckerd College which was just ranked the 12th "druggiest" college in the U.S. according to The Daily Beast.


Yep. My alma mater. Man, I could tell you stories...but I don't remember them.

Eckerd College is a smarmy hive of the New England prep school kids who were too dumb for Ivy League schools that become fake hippies on contact with Florida soil.

/my alma mater
//didn't like it
///last 2 years at USF was muuuuuuch better
////slashies

I haven't been to St. Petersburg since I was a kid but I remember liking it.

All I know is that St. Pete has the rockinest Dali museum outside of Spain.

Herodotus: ///last 2 years at USF was muuuuuuch better

USF represent

They actually have a pretty good CS school.

I grew up in Sarasota and always felt St. Pete was depressing as all hell. The only good part was visiting my Great Uncle Henry when I was around ten or so and learning how to play shuffle board from him.

The worst was when I was 19 and had to spend a whole week "helping" out with my paternal grandfather. Grandpa had moved to St. Pete from Madison, Wisconsin when I was in my senior year in high school and within a year, had a series of strokes thatr left him pretty much out of it. So, my dad sent me up there for a week to help out, except, my step-grandmother would not let me do anything. They were in a new subdivision with nothing near by. I didn't have a car and my step-grandmother was not about to let me use theirs. I spent the whole week just siting and reading through the massive collection of National Geographics. I would have just gone out of my skull but for them.

Oh, and New College is in Sarasota, albeit way extreme north Sarasota. My high school girlfriend's dad was comptroller there in the Sixties and Seventies.

Moodybastard One of the reasons for so many Florida cities getting the "most depressing tag" is you have so many attractions, so many destinations that the common folk can't afford. Pro sports teams, amusement/theme parks, concerts, resorts...


Actually, it's because most residents come from NYC, Boston or Philly, and bring their shiatty attitudes and obnoxious whines with them. If all the farking Yankees would stay up north, Florida would be a great place to live.

cosmiquemuffin: All I know is that St. Pete has the rockinest Dali museum outside of Spain.

Yeah, that's pretty cool and near the Pier area which is nice. Spent some of my high school years playing guitar at the yacht club over there. They were rich douchebags but more like yuppie douchebags, not old people douchebags.