Tarpon Springs Florida

Tarpon Springs is a great place to live. If it?s Tarpon Springs real estate you are interested in, Tarpon Springs offers many types of homes, from bungalows to gated communities to mansions. You can enjoy the waterfront view from your front porch along the beautiful Anclote River. There are many beautiful waterfront communities in Tarpon Springs along the Gulf of Mexico and bordering Lake Tarpon. For roughly $3 million dollars you can buy a 6000 square foot home that is reminiscent of old European grandeur on S. Florida Avenue that has a wide open view of the Gulf of Mexico. The property sits on 1.6 private acres. On the low end, you can buy a condo-hotel with waterfront access for under $150,000. There are many other great choices in between for Tarpon Springs real estate on and off the water.

For recreational activities in Tarpon Springs, my family and I have spent many days at Howard Park, with picnic facilities, playgrounds and its own beach where we enjoy the beautiful Florida sunsets. Tarpon Springs is known for its historic Sponge Docks and the biggest Epiphany celebration in the country, held annually in the month of February. You can enjoy authentic Greek food and pastries in its many restaurants. We enjoy a little restaurant called Plakas where they say they are the ?Greek McDonalds?. They have wonderful gyros and offer appetizers of Greek specialties such as marinated octopus! The Sponge Dock area also offers shopping, day-trip cruises, casino cruises or fishing trips. You can have a tour aboard a sponge boat and watch divers as they retrieve sponges from the Gulf of Mexico. You can also visit authentic Greek clubs where men spend the afternoon telling stories and playing cards.

Along with its Sponge Docks, Tarpon Springs offers a 120,000 gallon aquarium, a Performing Arts Center, a Cultural Center, and the Leepa-Ratner Museum of Art which has been brought to the city by the St. Petersburg College of Tarpon Springs. For the fourth time in four years, St. Pete College has been rated number 1 in the state of Florida for distance education.

We also enjoy attending the Sunset Beach concerts, The Fine Arts Festival each April and attending wine tasting events at the Tarpon Springs Castle Winery. The historic downtown area offers First Fridays and Second Saturdays where the shops and restaurants are open late and there often is free entertainment to enjoy while you shop and dine.

Tarpon Springs, in northern Pinellas County, is centrally located to Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater and is only 90 minutes away from Disney World and Sea World which are in Orlando, Florida. Tarpon Springs is a great place to call home or buy real estate with all it has to offer.

Posted by Carolyn Kolba on December 13, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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Latitude: 41.691245 -- Longitude: -81.341955

ZIP Codes for Mentor, Ohio	44060 44061
Area Code for Mentor, Ohio	440
Time zone for Mentor, Ohio	EST

Other Area Cities: Chester Center, OH East Cleveland, OH Eastlake, OH Lyndhurst, OH Mayfield Heights, OH Richmond Heights, OH Mentor, OH Gates Mills, OH Kirtland Hills, OH Mentor-on-the-Lake, OH Novelty, OH Painesville, OH Russell Center, OH Waite Hill, OH Wickliffe, OH Willoughby, OH Willowick, OH Hunting Valley, OH

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Mentor is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States. The population was 50,278 at the 2000 census. In July 2006, CNNMoney.com ranked Mentor 68th in a list of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in America. In 1876 James A. Garfield purchased a home in Mentor, from which he conducted the first successful front porch campaign for the presidency. That home is now maintained as the James A. Garfield National Historic Site. Mentor is a diverse community with industry, commerce and residential components. A wide range of housing is represented -- from condominiums and small ranches to half-million-dollar lakefront homes. According to the Mentor city website, 11 city parks comprise 930 acres of parkland. Many bike paths have been built in recent years. The city is a major center of retail stores and restaurants in the Greater Cleveland area. US 20 (Mentor Avenue) is the major retail center, with additional shopping found along most major roads. -- Source: Wikipedia.com

Ohio 2000 Census Population Profile Map

	Mentor	Ohio	United States
Population	50,278	11,353,140	281,421,906
Median age	38.9	36.2	35.3
Median age for Male	37.9	34.9	34
Median age for Female	39.8	37.5	36.5
Households	18,797	4,445,773	105,480,101
Household population	49,802	11,054,019	273,643,273
Average household size	2.65	2.49	2.59
Families	14,235	2,993,023	71,787,347
Average family size	3.08	3.04	3.14
Housing units	19,301	4,783,051	115,904,641
Occupied units	18,797	4,445,773	105,480,101
Vacant units	504	337,278	10,424,540

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Latitude: 41.691245 -- Longitude: -81.341955

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