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Florida resident here, and I don't ever remember seeing $500 signing bonuses for gas station employees before now. Yes, restaurants are busy here, but the serv

• andrew_ 5y ago
  > Yes, restaurants are busy here, but the service and food quality is obviously suffering Not in my experience. > Look up housing prices in the Tampa bay area. The new construction is all "Luxury" (just a word, still crappy) so they can sell $1,500 one bedrooms to foreigners. This just reads as incredibly bigoted. We're getting a decent amount of immigration influx but the majority of population rise is from out of state. Affordable housing is being developed and has been the last few years . New funding initiatives for affordable housing are in the works across the bay [1] [2], and there's a massive mixed income complex in planning for a major site across the river from downtown Tampa. Demand is outpacing supply here. Plain and simple. 1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tampabay.com/news/st-petersburg/2021/07/16/st-petersburg-city-council-provides-funds-for-workforce-housing-and-arts-centers/%3foutputType=amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tampabay.com/news/st-peters... 2. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tampabay.com/news/hillsborough/2021/07/14/hillsborough-countys-budget-plan-rosier-than-expected/%3foutputType=amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tampabay.com/news/hillsboro...