Well, I don't dance around it. From my perspective it's worth being deleted or shut out of a forum that does not allow free speech. So I'll just come out and say it. I remember Miami In the late 70s during spring break. This was well before the migration from "the Caribbean". Blond haired girls, it might as well been Cape Cod. What's happened to Miami in the last 40 years is the same thing that's happened to Los Angeles for example. I would say that LA was worth living in in the 80s but now it's a nightmare unless you're very very rich and even then you really can't insulate yourself from all of the problems. Homeless everywhere crime skyrocketing. Sound familiar? That's Miami. Walking down the street on Ocean Boulevard across from the ocean these days you're more likely to see 90% hip hoppers with baggy pants and potential gunfights than you are to see rollerblading attractive women. Both South Beach and Hollywood were a Mecca for a single guy but you couldn't pay me to live in either one of those places today. All the cities that were great or fun to live in 30/40 years ago are now the worst places in the country to live in whether it be New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami/South Beach…Over the last 30 years or so I have been to Miami probably a dozen times. I lived there in 78/79. Also spend another year there in 2000 and then back and forth since then about 10 more times and each subsequent visit the place gets worse and worse and more dangerous feeling each and every time I go. Do not venture into the wrong neighborhood and believe me that's easy to do whether it's too far east into Little Havana or you take the wrong turn off the 95 and end up in Overland you'll definitely feel like you're not in the right neighborhood. I have to say thhat at the beginning when the Cubans migrated here and they weren't dominating the demographic landscape to the tune of well over 95% Cuban population in Dade County, they weren't quite as dismissive and passive aggressive towards non-Cubans/non-Latinos. There's a sense of alienation when I've spent a few days at a time in Miami that I also feel in LA sort of like they don't want you there as the Caucasian demographic is so small now that they not only don't need your business they don't want you there in the first place. It's palpable and even though it's a generalization to say this, the overarching feeling is there. Would not even recommend a vacation down there.
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