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Clearwater, FL
Clearwater sits along the Gulf Coast directly west of Tampa across Old Tampa Bay, and Clearwater Beach, its barrier-island beach community connected to the mainland by causeway, has repeatedly ranked among the top beaches in the entire United States in national travel surveys for its wide stretch of soft white sand. The city has been the international spiritual headquarters of the Church of Scientology since the organization purchased a former hotel downtown in 1975, a presence that's grown substantially over the following decades to include a significant concentration of Scientology-owned buildings throughout the downtown core, making Clearwater's civic and commercial landscape genuinely distinctive relative to comparable Gulf Coast cities. Clearwater Marine Aquarium, made nationally famous by Winter the dolphin — a rescued dolphin fitted with a prosthetic tail whose story became the basis for the 2011 film "Dolphin Tale" — has drawn visitors well beyond the immediate area specifically to see the same dolphin whose recovery was documented on film. Clearwater's combination of a nationally top-ranked beach, a uniquely significant Scientology institutional presence downtown, and a globally recognized rescued-dolphin story has made it one of the more distinctive suburbs anywhere in the greater Tampa Bay metropolitan area.
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Brandon, FL
Brandon sits directly east of downtown Tampa along the Interstate 75 and State Road 60 corridors, and it's grown substantially over the past several decades from a smaller agricultural community into one of the larger unincorporated suburban areas in the entire Tampa Bay region. Westfield Brandon, one of the larger enclosed shopping malls in the Tampa Bay area, anchors a substantial commercial corridor that's made Brandon a significant regional retail destination, drawing shoppers from across eastern Hillsborough County rather than serving purely as a residential bedroom community. The area's rapid postwar and late-20th-century growth has made it one of the more demographically diverse suburbs in the Tampa Bay region, with substantial new residential development continuing to fill in the corridor between Tampa and the more rural areas further east. Brandon's combination of significant regional retail anchored by Westfield Brandon and sustained decades-long suburban growth has made it one of the larger and more commercially significant unincorporated communities anywhere in the greater Tampa Bay metropolitan area.
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