The Magic City - 7/6/2006

This is the greatest place on earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Housing - 7/2/2006

Expensive but still affordable!Great city with a multi-ethnic population. Huge Latino community but people who speak no Spanish do fairly OK(including myself). People are not as professional when compared with the North East. Can be rude at times.All in all a fun city with LOADS of stuff to do. Housing is expensive, traffic on some roads (US 1 in particular) is horrible.

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i love it here - 6/25/2006

I love the weather, the people (especially the girls), the nightlife, the culture, the food, the excitement, the ocean and everything else this place has to offer. However, people must be open-minded and excepting of the dominating lating culture. Also, anyone who moves here should realize that miami is a pretty big city with traffic and commotion. Regardless, I love it and think it's a great place to raise children, but if you don't by all means leave!!!

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Miami isnt bad, its different - 6/16/2006

I am a New Yorker, upstate, not NYC, although I spend a lot of time there too. I have visited Miami many times and lived there for 3 months last summer. I am of mixed heritage, Latina, black and European. I love Miami. I love the laid back lifestyle, feeling of a foreign city and cultural diversity. It’s a tropical metropolis with the urbane-ness of New York but the pace of the Caribbean. I don’t expect people to chat w/ me, say hi, hold the door or speak English. But maybe that's because I'm not from the Mid-West. Miami is practically South America. You know that before you go. So don't complain about people not speaking English. Bring a Gringo to Spanish dictionary if you must, but don't complain, you're not in Cleveland or Santa Monica. This is a beautiful city that is not suited for most people looking to start a career. It is a city for winding down your career, taking it easy or partying. If you're looking for something else you came to the wrong place.

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I agree! Miami is not cool! - 6/12/2006

I have to agree with the majority of posters here- I moved to Miami 2 years ago and have nothing but negative things to say. But what bothers me the most about this city is the people are so unbelievably rude!!! I have lived all over the US, and I have never seen anything like it. It almost sucks you in and turns you into a mean person! It's terrible. There is NO sense of community (unless you go into the latin communities, which there is, but I'm not Latin and don't speak Spanish), no art, no culture here at all! You feel like you are in a third world country. The only saving grace is the whole boating/fishing thing (the water here is beautiful!!), but hey you can do that on the West Coast of FL where you feel like you are still in America. You cannot get a job here unless you speak Spanish. In fact, people will pretty much look down on you if you don't speak Spanish. MY HUSBAND is Latin and even HE agrees that this place is terrible. My husband and I are leaving, thank goodness, but not fast enough. If I could leave tomorrow I would. It makes me so sad to see such a beautiful place be turned into a lackluster, everyone-is- out- for- themselves- mentality city. Just being on the roads is a fight for your life. I turned on power 96 the other day and they were running a song that talked about how a young girl beat up some girl at prom, and they were actually glorifying it. I was disgsuted once again. Ridiculous, low class value system here. Can't wait to leave!!

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Pro's and Con's of Miami - 5/29/2006

I have lived in Miami for most of my life, and I love it. But then again, I'm a boater, and there is not another place in the country where the boating is as great. The Biscayne bay is amazing. It is shallow, and full of places to explore. The barrier islands and patch reefs are like none other. Only you are only an hour and a half from the Bahamas. If you are a boater, this is paradise. Unfortunately, inexpensive boats, and 3-world country mentality reduces it's appeal. You have to be able to do your boating during the week. But, you in Miami you can also go all winter long, and it is beautiful. The weather in Miami is the best, sans the hurricanes. The only palace better might be San Diago where it is dry. The hurricanes are a problem all the way up the eastern coast and the gulf and western coast of Florida. They are mostly just "very bad" storms, that are a pain in the neck. But I predict in a few more years of the current pattern, everybody will have generators and the inconvience will be minimized - baring a really major storm like Andrew. Even the summer weather here is not that bad. I laugh when people talk about how hot it is here, how humid it is here. It is just as humid all up the east coast and hotter. The record tempature is 97 degrees in Miami and if you check the records elsewhere, you will find them a LOT hotter. The problem is that the tempature in the middle of summer does not vary it stays high 80's low nineties, day and night. But that is why we all have swimming pools. The real problem with Miami is crowding. It is landloacked by the everglade to the west and the ocean on the east and still people keep moving here. There is no where to build anymore roads to relieve the congestion, and people are from all different backgrounds making the road rage pretty scary at times. The cost of the neighborhoods you want to live in are 600K and up. Then your windstorm insurance is going to cost you between $4000-$8000 a year if you are east of the highway. Auto insurance is also much more in Miami, and insurance costs are expected to get worst. If you are from a premominately english speaking part of the the country, you're going to have to get used to the fact that you are now a minority. Latins are 65% according to statisitcs, but It really appears to be a lot higher. If you don't like a really big city, Miami is not for you - it is now a really busy big city. If you do like that kind of thing, it's a great place.

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Hey Jackie - 5/19/2006

The housing market is going up all over the nation, not just Miami. Second, the South Americans are the reason behind the influx, not Americans. Also, why dont you Cubans leave, Americans were here first. Kind of arrogant to tell Americans, to leave their own city. Miami is the poorest city in the nation. Dont believe me? Google poorest city in America, and see how quickly Miami pops up. Finally, the corrupt, crooked Cuban politicians will soon find a way to bankrupt Miami again. One more thing, Americans move to Miami Beach, no where in proper Miami, do "real" Americans live. South Beach is "American" run and operated. So stop losing that legendary Cuban anger!! Comprehendie,

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Cubans Losing Their Tempers Again!!!! - 5/19/2006

The housing market is going up all over the nation, not just Miami. Second, the South Americans are the reason behind the influx, not Americans. Also, why dont you Cubans leave, Americans were here first. Kind of arrogant to tell Americans, to leave their own city. Miami is the poorest city in the nation. Dont believe me? Google poorest city in America, and see how quickly Miami pops up. Finally, the corrupt, crooked Cuban politicians will soon find a way to bankrupt Miami again. One more thing, Americans move to Miami Beach, no where in proper Miami, do "real" Americans live. South Beach is "American" run and operated. So stop losing that legendary Cuban anger!! Comprehendie,

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Miami a city of all cities - 5/19/2006

Miami is an intersting place. Every world event seems to have began in Miami or ended in Miami or has had some tie to Miami. Miami is the worlds melting pot. You can live at the pace you choose, fast or slow. The beaches restaurants and blue south florida waters are un matched. Check us out!!!

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It's not that great! - 5/19/2006

I have lived my entire life in this city and I am so tired of it. People are rude, selfish, inconsiderate and just plain difficult. Prices are too high, trafic is horrendous and people don't speak English... Other than that... it is a beautiful city.

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Hey Laura and friends! - 5/16/2006

Get out! Go- leave!! What are you waiting for? Can't afford housing? Go! Can't stand the overwhelming Latino population? Go! Too much traffic, people are rude, etc. etc.? Go! While most of the comments on this site talk down about Miami, people (call them crazy!) still want to live here. The cost of housing keeps increasing because the demand is there. Get it? I, for one, can afford it and like it here very much. So - just leave already. Stop complaining. Miamians aren't interested.

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Leaving Miami - 5/5/2006

Its warm and humid with bright sunshine 90% of the time. Great beaches with lots of traffic and wild night life.

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Miami VS West Palm Beach! - 4/20/2006

The cancer that plagues Miami has now progressed north to WPB! Everyday the area looks more and more like a 3rd world country!

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So sick of Miami... - 4/19/2006

Miami is a melting pot of crime, polution and uneducated people. Can't wait to leave!

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Too Expensive - 4/18/2006

Too crowded, too Hispanicized and too expensive. The County Commission is too concerned with creating affordable housing, when they should be lobbying at the state level to bring both auto and home insurance down to reasonable levels. The Hispanic remark is not a racial slur, but unhappiness with an inability to find anyone who speaks English at the local Walmart!

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Get out of Miami while you can - 4/14/2006

The cost of living in Miami is simply too high for the poor quality of life afforded to those who live here. Miami has many of the same problems as Latin America: poor public schools; extremes of rich and poor and little middle class; poor government, corruption and bad services. I also find Miami to be unwelcoming to non-Hispanics. It's quite true that in many restaurants, stores and public places, the staff does not speak English. For me, even more difficult to accept is that American customs and values do not predonimate either. The customs of Latin America, a region not know for a high quality of life, are the norm. This is the reason Miami ranks near the bottom of every quality of life survey done of American cities. I don't recommend Miami and most of South Florida as a place to live.

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Miami has the problems of Latin America - 4/14/2006

I currently live in Miami and just moved back here from Panama City, Panama. I have also lived in several other Latin countries over the years and speak fluent Spanish. Miami faces many of the same problems as Latin American countries- little middle class with extremes of rich and poor; corruption; bad government and poor services. Without counting the undocumented population, 51% of Miami-Dade County is foreign born. If the majority of the population of any city was born in a developing country, the result is a city with many characteristics of the developing world, which is what we have in Miami. I plan to soon be one of the middle class non-Hispanics fleeing Miami, as I find the cost of living to be to high for the quality of life, or lack thereof, one faces living here. This seems to be the pattern- non-Hispanics and businesses are fleeing Miami in droves, being replaced by poor non-English speaking immigrants from Latin America. As this patern continues, the city is bound to take on more and more of the characteristics of Latin America, which is not a region known for high quality of life. My recommendation is to get out while you can.

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Hey Amanda - 4/11/2006

Im from indy, went to Ben Davis. I think i probably talked to you on West Ave, about a year ago. I think everybody from the midwest thinks the same way we do about Miami. Run while you still have the chance.

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Following Laura in General Catagory - 4/9/2006

I moved from the Midwest about a year ago as well. Living in Miami makes me appreciate that annoying neighbor who said hello every time he saw me! I can't see that happening here. Instead, I can see that neighbor beeping his horn and cursing at me for no reason! I find it appalling and unacceptable to go to a fast food restaurant and fight to give my order to some one who can't speak English. I think if you live in the US, you learn to speak English. Miami has made me see how cruel and untrusting the world really is. That is sad!

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Amen Laura! - 4/9/2006

I moved from the Midwest about a year ago as well. Living in Miami makes me appreciate that annoying neighbor who said hello every time he saw me! I can't see that happening here. Instead, I can see that neighbor beeping his horn and cursing at me for no reason! I find it appalling and unacceptable to go to a fast food restaurant and fight to give my order to some one who can't speak English. I think if you live in the US, you learn to speak English. Miami has made me see how cruel and untrusting the world really is. That is sad!

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