I'm a millennial who relocated to Tampa, where I run my own business. I don't see myself leaving anytime soon.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Joe Steilberg, 27, co-founder of Twos, a note-taking and organization app. He moved to Tampa during the pandemic. The conversation was edited for length and clarity.
Steilberg spent a year in Austin, Texas, after college. He moved to Dallas and shortly after, moved to Tampa.The problem that I noticed very quickly, though, was that I was having a lot of trouble finding my people, my group, because most of the time I was working. The only people I was meeting were at work. I realized that I didn't have a lot in common with the people that I was working with, and I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to break into these long-standing friend groups.
As soon as I got here, it was day and night. It was such a warm and embracing environment. Everyone was like"let me introduce you to my friends. Let's go to the beach." I wouldn't even say that I have a strong affiliation with Florida. I actually was a little embarrassed about coming home. I didn't want to give off the impression that I was this homebody and I just needed to be on the East Coast.
Their campus is a beautifully renovated, repurposed warehouse. We were really nervous we weren't going to get in. But after three interviews, it was the perfect alignment of what we wanted and what they had to offer. We got in.
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