Sarasota: Florida. A Driving Tour of the Beautiful Downtown

[@LetsSeeAmerica]

Pinned by Let's See America Is Sarasota a top 25 Downtown Florida destination? We are searching for the most vibrant and diverse downtowns in Florida. What do you think of Downtown Sarasota?

[@karenanselmo4071]

I lived there for 13 months 09/15-10/16. It was lovely but boring as hell. Looks like they've expanded the downtown area. When there was something going on, it was difficult to park. I moved to historic Savannah, Ga...way more to my liking.

[@JERios-wv8lx]

NEW (OR ALMOST NEW) BUILDINGS, NO GRAFITTI WALLS, VERY CLEAN STREETS. MORE THAN A SMALL CITY, IT LOOKS LIKE A RECENT PLANNED COMMUNITY! I DEFINITELY LOVE IT!

[@katrinstake]

Love it in Sarasota...downtown has expanded a lot over the last 5 years. Much more to do. Still a very clean city.

[@tiffprendergast]

Lovely

[@tiffprendergast]

@@katrinstake yup

[@freelancelady]

I live in Sarasota since 2005 and it is becoming a big town now, so much construction everywhere. Today January 1, 2020 the weather is beautiful and we just need a light jacket for the morning. The temperature will go up to 81 today...Happy New Year to all who visit this very nice place.

[@tasheikapinnock9511]

Hi am from ny plz I need someone like u to give me so info about sarasota am thinking to move fr nyc

[@ssn6381]

Lucky you!

[@dancerloverish]

Tell me please, why did you choose to move to Sarasota instead, for example, Naples or Tampa or St. Petersburg?

[@BeachGirl34236]

i love living & working in Sarasota

[@JUSTxBEINGxHONEST]

My hometown has changed tremendously

[@AnthonyBurrito1313]

It sucks now I left.

[@JUSTxBEINGxHONEST]

@@AnthonyBurrito1313 i miss it terribly

[@layplum]

I live in Bradenton and work in Sarasota. I’ve seen it change so much over the years it’s really going downhill in my opinion. Unless you’re a millionaire, it’s too expensive.

[@JUSTxBEINGxHONEST]

@@layplum this is why i left..btown is not for me been there done that and sarasota is super expensive...id move back if i could afford it..but for now nc. It is

[@layplum]

Not Butters yeah Bradenton is not great, only if you’re rich it’s okay. I am not rich I work at a hotel, so Sarasota is way out of my price range. I also have to leave so early to get to work in the morning bc of the traffic.

[@Bobzakusa]

I'm from the UK and visit Sarasota regularly although haven't been able to recently due to Covid but, will be back asap. I love the place...I stay on Lido Key. This video brings back great memories.

[@kevinjohnson1958]

Fantastic video. As a regular tourist to Sarasota from the UK I loved it. Many thanks.

[@BaronFeydRautha]

As a native to FL I say this on behalf of all Floridians...Please learn how to drive and know where you are going before you get on the road. That being said Im not saying YOU personally are a terrible driver. Floridians have a love hate relationship with tourists. On one hand we'll gladly take your money. On the other...LEARN HOW TO DRIVE. It's a 2D grid system. It's not hard to figure out. And when you see someone speeding past you while you're obliviously driving 10 under the speed limit trying to find that restaurant you saw on instagram, I'm trying to get to work. lol.

[@catmanflorida8545]

Ive lived here since 1967, love it.

[@randyhartley865]

Thanks for the fantastic video. Brings back great memories of working at The Zenith, on the right at 4:45. I well remember walking all these streets during my lunch break.

[@TheFloridaRelocationGuide]

Love the video!

[@johnnyballada]

My little town ❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸! Love Sarasota! Fruitville Rd and Beneva 👑👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@DanielReyes-zu8em]

Wow, Sarasota is beautiful... I have to get down there for a visit..

[@carolynfeldman9643]

Very helpful. Love the map in the beginning to navigate what you are showing and then the drive through. GREAT!! Thank you:-)

[@ellenreza7207]

Can't wait to move there in Sarasota.❤️

[@BaronFeydRautha]

You'll change your tune when you find out how expensive it is to live in SRQ. A SMALL 1x1 will run you upwards of 1000$ a month, excluding utilities. And when you are trying to get to work in season but the millions of snowbirds are on the roads lost as fuck driving 15 miles under the speed limit.

[@tiffprendergast]

@@BaronFeydRautha why my brother in law asks my mom for money though he has a job

[@Durgin60]

It's beautful SARASOTA!

[@jayj3990]

great video, perfect place !! thank you !!

[@katerynakostetska8088]

Thank’s for your video. Looking beautiful.👍👍. I like Florida very much. Halo from Canada.🇨🇦

[@TributetoCanada]

The narration is impeccable!!

[@bethperryrealtor]

Great City

[@davidtrout540]

Please tell me about the 2016 and 2017 sewer spills of 200 million gallons of raw sewage between Sarasota and Manatee County and then what we got now 2019 to where we're at?

[@Diohid]

Excellent...!!! I loved it...!!! I was there...!!! But this video is old.... about four years ago... Happy Sarasota. Thanks for share.

[@jimhoover7945]

I don't think I want to ride with you. You ran a red light and at least two stop signs. Please drive carefully.

[@mais6105]

Missing Sarasota .

[@carolechevalier6619]

I want to move there from Montreal....

[@peterholthoffman]

I lived in Sarasota in the early 1960s and was able to visit in the mid-1990s but I've not been back since then so thank you for the virtual visit! Do be careful driving as you ran every single stop sign.

[@timothysullysullivan2571]

and a red light too!

[@SarasotaExperience]

Great video!! I hope you enjoyed the area!

[@ssn6381]

I want to visit Sarasota, FL! I’ve heard so many great things about the town. Any recommendations the best cities to live in FL, please reply! I’ve been all over Florida (Naples, Orlando, Boca Raton, Jupiter, etc.) but Sarasota is a top place to visit! I live in Northern VA rn. I grew up in Northern VA and the ppl here are so rude and the weather is bipolar I hate it! I am almost done w/college but after I graduate, I want to live in FL for the rest of my life! Everyone in FL seems so much nicer, happier, and deep down to earth. Yes, Florida might be hot year round, but trust me if you live up north, you’re going to hate the bipolar weather not knowing what to wear everyday and wrapping yourself up in clothes for the winter season. The traffic from snowbirds doesn’t seem as bad as traffic in Northern VA especially since it’s a half hour from DC. The traffic in Northern VA is way worse than FL. Please Pray that I will be able to visit Sarasota, FL and live in the sunshine state of FL for rest of my life! Florida is awesome! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Also comment down below some best recommendations for cities, I really want to know!

[@tiffanymillion7315]

I live in Northern VA too! And grew up there! Been wanting to move to Florida for the longest time now.

[@dorkybeefjerky9789]

This is where I live

[@johnnyballada]

Love my Sarasota beautiful 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇧🇷👑🙏🏻❤️

[@kervensatis4555]

This video must be old.. they made it a 3 lane left turn from gulfstream to 41 a long time ago

[@rhondawilliams5859]

I LOVE MY FLORIDA 😎💙!!!!!! I'VE BEEN HERE IN BRADENTON SINCE 1979 💗😊 WHAT I DON'T LIKE IS THE SNOWBIRDS.😔 WE HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE LIVING HERE ALREADY 😤🚛🚐🏍️ WELCOME TO THE CROWDED SUNSHINE 🌞😎 STATE!!!!!

[@tiffprendergast]

Well where do u want them to live

[@theevilpineapple9286]

I was so exited cause I used to live here

[@potatoeyawesome1350]

0:11 is st Augustine were I live

[@Boomer-cf2br]

Saint Augustine is pretty neat and it's not loaded with high-rises, Old Town is a don't miss attraction there.

[@bobbiggley6992]

I miss the old "sleepy Sarasota"when they had The Palmer bank

[@mr.j9356]

I’ve been to Sarasota I do not recommend it, they have a lot of homeless/drug users walking the streets, more than a handful of redlight cameras, and police that are ready to either write you a ticket or lock you up if they can. The positives are a beautiful beach and pretty good food choices.

[@dilee2086]

I live here, you are correct, just be glad you don't have to put up with racism!

[@Alexcia215]

Di Lee Thinking about moving to Sarasota are you saying there’s racism there?

[@daniinicole2725]

I Absolutely Adore your Video. Quiet and just cruising downtown. Takes me there in my thoughts and. I have been planning on moving back and this just gave me Motivation!!!!🙏🙏🙏

[@chekaschmeka4283]

I accommodated 4 elderly visitors from Texas earlier this week, and they didn't want to go home today even though power was restored.

[@CuộcSốngMỹ-America]

I love Sarasota ❤️❤️❤️

[@sadiyaakter8536]

I like ur channel name😘🤩

[@bowserxy4174]

They are only showing the rich part of Sarasota I live in not so rich part

[@jamesbenedict7206]

Unless you have millions, its to artsy fartsy!

[@edwardanugent]

This is where the rich live. The rest of Sarasota is much different. Bee Ridge Ave is horrible, too many shacks. No building plan was ever adopted. You are better off living west of 75 with land or go south to North Port, still Sarasota County. Oh, and 75 from Clark Rd to University is always under construction and always a traffic menace.

[@Afroman792]

Not an accurate depiction... there is so much more traffic than that.

[@PrimeInChina]

No, it is 100% an accurate. It isn't a depiction of anything. It isn't like a computer just made this shit up and they edited out traffic to make it seem something like it isn't. There is a person ACTUALLY driving a car in real traffic on video. How you going to say there is MORE traffic than what you are seeing on screen? At that time he was driving, there was in fact NOT so much more traffic.

[@PrimeInChina]

@Lauren King You can't agree, it isn't an opinion. At the time he filmed this video, this was the traffic. Maybe the traffic is different NOW. But at that time it wasn't. He said it wasn't an accurate depiction of traffic. Quite obviously it is, or you would be seeing something different.

[@Brascobadboy]

PrimeInChina he is a hater

[@PerformanceRaven]

@Lauren King I sadly agree. All of the condos being built is taking away the beauty of this great city. The traffic is a nightmare. I drive back up to visit Sarasota frequently, but am so thankful now that I don't have to deal with this traffic on a daily basis.

[@AnthonyBurrito1313]

@@PerformanceRaven Sarasota died in 1993

[@peterlamere5328]

Moving from St Thomas USVI after 22 year too Sarasota next week...Love Sarasota, such a great town.!

[@cadengrace5466]

The news is everywhere that malls are dead and this video proves they aren't. People just want to drive through them. Main Street looks like a mall from one end to the other. All of the buildings are the same with the same roof. It looks great but it is in the end a mall with traffic in the main concourse. Nicely done Sarasota.

[@Brascobadboy]

Hater jealous

[@natemars9258]

Lots of homeless living around downtown. Sarasota Police hassle them most Fridays to clear them out for the downtown weekend nightlife. Pretty crappy way to run a city. Not all unicorns and rainbows here in Sarasota.

[@BaronFeydRautha]

ppppppsssssshhhhhh, come up to Manatee, homeless paople EVERYWHERE on 9th and 41.

[@sangroncito7551]

I remember Sarasota in the 1950's. Today's Sarasota is awful.

[@rhondawilliams5859]

THIS IS NOT A LITTLE TOWN.😔 IT'S FILLED WITH PEOPLE!!!!!🏍️🚐🚛 AND TRAFFIC!!!!😢

[@AnthonyBurrito1313]

So true

[@545stlouis]

Take that hate somewhere else! Whole world is growing!

[@TheRealBurgNerd]

Doesn’t touch St Petersburg. The city is BOOMING

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Its just another concrete jungle

[@emmaleethompson5209]

the most interesting thing to do here is go to Hollywood 11

[@bowserxy4174]

Everyone that hasn’t been raised here thinks it’s all fancy and nice but nooo it’s not all gancy

[@PerformanceRaven]

Beautiful city, I loved the 5 years I lived here. It's a shame they are ruining it with all the condos they keep building. The traffic now is horrendous.

[@BaronFeydRautha]

I live in the area...I HATE SRQ DT. The traffic is insane with all the lost snowbirds driving 10 miles under the speed limit. And I HATE that UGLY as fuck statue of "the kiss". That thing is so fucking ugly and ruins the view into the marina. DT SRQ is a fucking nightmare when all the tourists come down. A few years ago some OLD woman ran into that statue and toppled it. The thing was removed for something like 6 months for repairs. I wish it never came back. It's SO ugly and tacky. The only good thing about DT SRQ was The Quay, but that was torn down like a decade ago.

[@davidtrout540]

Yeah I was gone 10 years and came back fishing again commercial not happy go walk in the waters where I fish that you be knee-deep in muc.

[@BaronFeydRautha]

It's even worse. For the last five years Manatee and SRQ beaches have seen HUGE red tide blooms that last for MONTHS.

[@davidtrout540]

@@BaronFeydRautha you are right I hate it all this building is this everything is just killing everything around us. Very sad about it been gone for 10 years and I come back I wish I kind of didn't come back.

[@BaronFeydRautha]

@@davidtrout540 Last year during a bloom my FRESH water aquarium got that shit. It was SO BAD it must have been in the county water system. I live almost 5 miles away from any beach. Killed everything in my tank before I could do anything about it.

[@davidtrout540]

@@BaronFeydRautha LOL need to treat your water before you put your fish in. I don't know what you did I have fish in the tank fresh and salt two tanks. But is ridiculous for the crap that's here. I'm a Florida boy born and raised here. Very disappointed at how my County people and how everybody tried to take care of here but couldn't do it but the government okay doll the building so yeah this is bullcrap.

[@davidtrout540]

LOL I don't know how doll got in there. But the government okayed everything to build and does not have no infrastructure to take care of all the new builds. All they did was just mess up our land and mess up my place for and everybody else's place now we got to worry about flesh eating bacteria we got to worry about red tide we got to worry about a whole lot of things that we should not have to.

[@Boomer-cf2br]

Not much of a tour.

[@tdexpress]

That was stupid

[@matthewsantiago8114]

Diverse lol

[@thetherorist9244]

hahahahahaha

[@thetherorist9244]

@Martin Luther please explain what is diverse .

[@thetherorist9244]

troll

[@karenanselmo4071]

compared to what? There is nothing diverse about Sarasota.

[@Sheeporino]

@Martin Luther Downtown Sarasota is barely diverse.

[@robertpratt9397]

Phoney pompous atmosphere other than that it's Okay !

[@pwrstock]

No talking? Some tour. Pass.

[@ziggymon2529]

Low res. Non-narrative. Basically Bad Vid