re: Questions about a possible move to Miami......

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Kids/schools are not a factor.

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will you be at the ARTCC?


Miami Lakes, Doral, and Coral Gables would all be quick and easy if so, and decent areas

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FAA

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Miami

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Are you willing to take bribes to look the other way when a private plane loaded with coke needs to land?

I lived in Miami for a year and have since moved to Ft. Lauderdale.

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1.) Is Miami a good place to live?

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Not really unless you make +300k, speak Spanish, tolerant of cultural idiosyncrasies, and are ok with a lifestyle different than what is considered normal in the states. It’s literally another country.

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2.) What area would you recommend living?

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Single? Brickell Family? Coral Gables, South Miami, Pinecrest

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3.) How bad is the traffic in the are between 6-7am and 3-4pm?

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I’ve lived in LA, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, and Nola. NOTHING compares to this shite. They have some fricked up traffic laws in this state too.

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4.) What's the average monthly cost of day to day living? (i.e. food, gas, housing)

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It’s pretty expensive, food is prob relative to your area but gas and housing will far exceed your expectation.

Moral of the story, live north of I-595 close to the coast. Purchase a Sunpass and take the express lanes to work. Lifestyle, culture, and travel are far and away better than Miami.

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It's 'Little Havana'.

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it's little everything from the Caribbean/Latin America, not necessarily a bad thing either, some of the sleaziest, trashiest elements are the transients from up northeast US

Not just Habla espanol? but Parlez vous Francais?

Do not underestimate the diaspora from Haiti.

There's a movie about the decline in the Jewish community in Miami that's pretty good. "The Last Resort" will give you an idea of what used to be.

Meat market - hope you’re single

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Miami

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Miami is the closest foreign country to America and you don't need a passport

Miami >>> Houston if you have money

In 2005, in the aftermath of Katrina, the company I was working for relocated to downtown Miami. I went and helped set up the new shop. In less than six months, I quit & moved back to broke-dick New Orleans.

Thing I disliked about Miami:
--While S Florida is beautiful along the ocean, east of I-95, that's a small percentage of the place. West of I-95? Ugly-arse strip-mall & track house sprawl built on reclaimed Everglades: imagine New Jersey, only with palm trees.
--The traffic sucks arse all the time, everywhere, and everything is spread out, so you basically have long drives wherever you go. My <5 mile commute from Coconut Grove to downtown took 35-40 minutes each way.
--Lots of the people are unspeakably rude. I'm guessing it's the combination of people from NY-NJ + people from the developing world, places unfamiliar with southern gentility and manners.
--I don't speak Spanish. My limitation, I realize, but if you don't, you're shut out of a lot of culture, jobs, relationships, etc.
--Live music scene sucks. If you're interested in seeing real shows (not DJ music), you're mostly SOL. Few small/mid-level acts bring their tour all the way down the peninsula to Miami for one gig.
--Cuban food is wildly overrated.
--As fricked up as NOLA is with regard to hurricanes, Miami is worse, since there's no real way to evacuate the 6 million people in S Florida. As strange as it sounds to say, NOLA is safer because you can realistically get out ahead of a storm.

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Learn to like black bean soup, learn how to play dominos, and learn how to speak Cuban. That's all I got.

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and Yiddish