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GS:
Unless you like living in a slum, the affordable housing keeps moving further and further out from MacDill.
The problem is that the traffic keeps getting worse, and being on a peninsula, the base is hard to get to. Essentially, you have to go through the downtown to get there from the east. The north is very congested, and to the west is St. Pete and the Gulf beach side. South is obviously not an option unless you have a boat or like a very long commute over a bridge that closes in bad weather.
We were there 1996-2001, and stayed east out in Brandon/Valrico. The community is decent, lots of shopping/things to do in the area, commute to MacDill will normally be 35-45 minutes. Orlando is also closer on that side of town.
Lakeland is a long way out. The I-4/I-275 intersection is called Malfunction Junction for a reason. You also have to get to MacDill from I-4/I-275, which on Dale Mabry, can take 30 minutes just to get to base.
I have had buddies rent or buy houseboats, but with the hurricane threat, not sure I would want to do that.
HTH.
TR
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