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Fort Lauderdale, and South Florida in general, amaze me like no other metro area I've ever seen. You have wealth in one area, then a few blocks over you have a ghetto. This pattern is consistent throughout the entire county. As an example, you have wealth and mansions east of US1 in Fort Lauderdale. Go eight blocks west of US1, and you have the Sistrunk neighborhood. The close proximity of the vastly different neighborhoods is just fascinating.
The Grove in MIA is one of the biggest and most drastic examples of this. I showed an NY couple, and we were walking out the Grove neighborhood into the restaurant Coco Walk area and told them "prepare for a big shift", as soon as we hit the CORNER. They were like
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