Generally speaking, The middle class is getting wiped out. All the good manufacturing, assembly, small local business is fading quickly. These used to be the source of good paying blue collar jobs. The kind of job that you don't need a college degree but could still feel good about yourself, raise a family, take vacations and even put a little money aside.
In their brain dead ideologically driven heads, Lib-tards are prioritizing “The Poor” (whatever that means) and thus creating an ever expanding and permanent class of do-nothing sheep.
“The Rich” will always be insulated from economic downturns. But the middle class is paycheck to paycheck riding the tide up and down...always hoping tomorrow will be at least as good as today...but having no guarantees.
Bottom line TampaBay will always be Home Sweet Home and a Beautiful place to be...but then I was raised and moved from Flint Michigan in 1974.
To those who know Tampa only as a vacation spot, it may come as a surprise to learn that the city is a thriving agribusiness center. Hillsborough County markets an abundance of citrus fruit, beef cattle, dairy products, eggs, vegetables, ornamental plants and flowers, and tropical fish. As a result, many agriculture-related industries have been attracted to the area, including food processing firms; feed, fertilizer, and insecticide companies; and paper and metal container manufacturers. Two breweries, Anheuser-Busch and Pabst, also have facilities in Tampa.
Tampa has attained the status of a foreign trade zone, an area where goods can be unloaded for repacking, storage, or transshipment without being subject to import duties.
It looks like Housing construction peaked around 2005 and even now is still at 1995 levels according to city-data.