[TriMT7]

Originally Posted by leftee

Not your best work ... did your ghostwriter resign ? All personal insults aside ...

Your lack of response in this case speaks more volumes than if you had actually responded.

Originally Posted by leftee

Ah, Miami ... the overdressed pretentious den of iniquity. You can have your 'alpha' city.

Overdressed is not a synonym I would use for Miami.

And by the way, the inequity in income is greater in places like New York City than it is in Miami:

America's widest gap between rich and poor is found in Connecticut - The Business Journals

(But far be it from me to let facts get in the way of opinions and perceptions).

[Soup Not See]

Originally Posted by TriMT7

Your lack of response in this case speaks more volumes than if you had actually responded.

That's because I'm cowering in a corner frightened of your intellect ...

Overdressed is not a synonym I would use for Miami.

And by the way, the inequity in income is greater in places like New York City than it is in Miami:

America's widest gap between rich and poor is found in Connecticut - The Business Journals

(But far be it from me to let facts get in the way of opinions and perceptions).

This is not a 3-5 day cricket match and I really don't care if you get the last word ... but to illustrate my point of how you misconstrue posts, didn't my last post say "den of iniquity" ? Where did you come up with "inequity" ?

Treat yourself and start r-e-a-d-i-n-g very slowly ...

den of iniquity - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

[Mike1306]

Originally Posted by Broadrippleguy

I live in Indiana and i noticed Tornados tend to Hit us about as often as Flordia and yet i get a laugh when people say why don't houses in Indianapolis have basements? Lol this isn't Oaklahoma but in all honesty any state *could* get a Tornado.
But when a Tornado does hit it does some good damage to the Trees/CornFields. I would say on Average we get a handful of Tornados per year. But you have to keep in mind if a Hurricane Strikes Flordia theres almost a guarentee of Tornados to be inside the Hurricane.

Not really, you do not get tornadoes from hurricanes much and the tornadoes in Florida are 99 % of the time not serious.
They are mostly small waterspouts that do no damage.
Yes there have been some that do damage but not usually.

[Mike1306]

Originally Posted by leftee

Not when you can back them up ...

Funny you should mention that, but no ...

I didn't start the confrontation, but certainly will not back down. There are always a few posters who can take a simple post aimed at someone else and turn it into a personal attack. I can't imagine what it would be like if we were all sitting in the same room.

I could care less what you claim your wealth is but are you going to post a picture of you holding a handful of bill like some gangster?

I can imagine what it would be like to be sitting in the same room with many posters in here and i would probably laugh my ass off/

[TriMT7]

Originally Posted by leftee

That's because I'm cowering in a corner frightened of your intellect ...

Originally Posted by leftee

This is not a 3-5 day cricket match and I really don't care if you get the last word ... but to illustrate my point of how you misconstrue posts, didn't my last post say "den of iniquity" ? Where did you come up with "inequity" ?

Treat yourself and start r-e-a-d-i-n-g very slowly ...

den of iniquity - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

It's called skimming your post and misreading a word.

I do have real work to do, you know.

But calling Miami a "Den of Iniquity" just shows that you've gone further off the deep end than previously imagined when I thought you were commenting on wealth inequity.

"A place filled with criminal activity or wickedness?" Which is it that you're concerned with? The crime or the wickedness?

Miami isn't the 80s anymore, leftee. There are plenty of other fine cities in this country that surpass anything Miami has to offer in the way of crime.
Examples:

Miami Crime index 2009: 568.8
Atlanta: 633.0
Houston: 603.2
Memphis: 876.9

As a matter of fact, Orlando and Tallahassee have a higher crime rate than Miami.

[Soup Not See]

Originally Posted by TriMT7

It's called skimming your post and misreading a word.

I do have real work to do, you know.

But calling Miami a "Den of Iniquity" just shows that you've gone further off the deep end than previously imagined when I thought you were commenting on wealth inequity.

"A place filled with criminal activity or wickedness?" Which is it that you're concerned with? The crime or the wickedness?

Miami isn't the 80s anymore, leftee. There are plenty of other fine cities in this country that surpass anything Miami has to offer in the way of crime.
Examples:

Miami Crime index 2009: 568.8
Atlanta: 633.0
Houston: 603.2
Memphis: 876.9

As a matter of fact, Orlando and Tallahassee have a higher crime rate than Miami.

Categorizing Houston and Memphis as "fine cities" is certainly debatable. I've give you Atlanta ...

According to these stats from 2010, Miami and the surrounding areas are some of the highest in Florida of crime in general (along with St Pete and Orlando) and Miami has the highest murder rate per capita on any Florida city. I was surprised to see how high WPB was ranked on the multiple crime type ratings. It would be interesting to see the rankings from the 90s to see if indeed Miami is not the gang-ridden, drug smuggling, car stripping, murdering place it used to be. Maybe all of the bad seeds are making their way up the Turnpike to other areas in the state. Tallahassee is rumored to be a hotbed for drug smuggling due it's proximity to various interstates and Orlando certainly has its share of unsavory individuals.

http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2010..._hightolow.pdf

http://www.morganquitno.com/cit02r.pdf

[compelled to reply]

Originally Posted by leftee

According to these stats from 2010, Miami and the surrounding areas are some of the highest in Florida of crime in general (along with St Pete and Orlando) and Miami has the highest murder rate per capita on any Florida city

358 Coral Springs, FL (53.65)

323 Pembroke Pines, FL (37.71)

300 Boca Raton, FL (29.59)

268 Sunrise, FL (13.35)

238 Plantation, FL (2.28)

227 Hialeah, FL 5.61

226 Davie, FL 6.49

So there are about as many fairly populated South Florida cities in the bottom half as there are in the top half...

[TriMT7]

Originally Posted by leftee

Categorizing Houston and Memphis as "fine cities" is certainly debatable. I've give you Atlanta ...

According to these stats from 2010, Miami and the surrounding areas are some of the highest in Florida of crime in general (along with St Pete and Orlando) and Miami has the highest murder rate per capita on any Florida city. I was surprised to see how high WPB was ranked on the multiple crime type ratings. It would be interesting to see the rankings from the 90s to see if indeed Miami is not the gang-ridden, drug smuggling, car stripping, murdering place it used to be. Maybe all of the bad seeds are making their way up the Turnpike to other areas in the state. Tallahassee is rumored to be a hotbed for drug smuggling due it's proximity to various interstates and Orlando certainly has its share of unsavory individuals.

http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2010..._hightolow.pdf

http://www.morganquitno.com/cit02r.pdf

If you use City-data's individual city profile pages, you will note steady, downward sloping crime indexes (per capita) for Miami, West Palm, Fort Lauderdale from the peak of the 1990s to today.

Fort Lauderdale has a rather low crime index, considering its proximity to Miami.

The Morgan Quinto list you posted is also a bit out of date. For 2010, the Miami city proper didn't crack the top 25 most dangerous cities, but was 16 for metro crime:

Morgan Quitno Press - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


West Palm Beach has fallen far down the list over the years... from being represented in the "top list" just a decade ago, to being at around #59... a credit to gentrification, IMO, and much of it localized in a notorious area of the city.

http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2010..._hightolow.pdf

[Rwarky]

Originally Posted by claud605

Because it's freaking miserably hot and humid in NC for three months, and freaking miserably hot and humid in FL for six months?

There are many beaches throughout Florida to help with this problem.

[Gatornation]

Originally Posted by Rwarky

There are many beaches throughout Florida to help with this problem.

NC has beaches to escape to as well. Better yet they have mountains where the high temps in the summer only get to the high 70's.