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Originally Posted by kyle19125
Crime is everywhere and worse in other areas, it's humid in much of the SE/Eastern US, horrible drivers can be found anywhere and hurricanes???? In the past 50 years 6 hurricanes made landfall in the Miami/South Florida area with none in the past nine years. Southern California has had how many earthquakes, mudslides and wildfires in the past nine years? Too many to count..
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And how many times has the bulk of the South Bay been devastated by an earthquake, mudslide or wildfire? Zero. You are not going to win the "natural disaster" debate, especially when by your own admission hurricanes make
landfall in Miami once every eight years. We will likely both be dead (and perhaps 20 generations of our progeny) before the "big one" hits, but I can assure you that Miami will be ravaged again by many a Hurricane, as certainly as it will rain in Scotland. Cursed geography.
I completely agree with the poster than mentioned "visit Miami, live in MB". I love Miami, and go all the time (and have spent well over a cumulative year of my life in South Florida working and vacationing). At the end of the day, we are talking about two very different metro areas. There is a reason one has 6.5 million residents and one has 20+ million while being significantly more expensive - Southern California is nicer to live by nearly any measure in and can support infinitely more people economically. It has perfect weather and is attached to one of the world's great cities. It is California, which is exponentially better than Florida for anyone who is indeed a "young professional" and not a vacationer or oligarch's son. If you can afford it, you generally live there.
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