re: Miami, Florida. Travel advice?

I lived in the design district when I was down there. It's always a cool place, but not exactly a tourist attraction. Wood Tavern and the Butcher Shop are great places to go over there, and they have open air art displays every Tuesday about this time of year.

South Beach sucks.

It really does.

It's full of Yankees, Russians and Venezuelans with too much money. It's elbows and assholes for as far as the eye can see and everything has a 2000% markup.

If you're going to people watch, stay on the main concourse and chill outside of Sushi Samba or something.

There are great restaurants down there. I think cuban food sucks and smells worse, but it's the only place in the US to get it. Peruvian food is huge. Get the ceviche with everything from just about any restaurant and you won't be disappointed.

As for getting laid? I never found it that hard and I wasn't balling at the time. Just don't expect the woman to be exclusive as most of them might as well be escorts.