Congrats Miami, you're the most miserable city in America! (Kendall: sales, crime)

[Thomas Jefferson]

Originally Posted by boxus

You realize not every place in the world is going to have a perfectly diverse economy to employee a perfect diverse set of skills? How is it Miami's fault that there happens to not be a need for your skill set? Houston may have a need for your skill set, but then there will be other people with other skill sets complaining there are no jobs for them there.

When people have a skill set, they tend to use a little common sense and look for work in areas that need the skill set. I work in the financial sector, that is why I am working and living in Brickell. It is either that, or sit and complain all day living in some other city that does not have the need for my skill set, and complain that the city does not have international investment banks for me to work in.

How about this; why do you not go and search for jobs? If you know Texas will hire you, then why are you not there instead of here complaining about it?

Well Boxus, I was not complaining about education or lack of opportunities. I believe that if one wants something in life you have to do whatever it takes. But I do complain about the elistist mentality that a BS or MS will take you far when what I have seen is that those with a good enterprenourship mentality had fared better in these trouble times. While those with BS, MS, specific and unique skill sets are suffering, you can tell me about it, you work in finance.

Professionals with BS or MS make me laugh and sad because Im one of them. But what usually these elitists, usually university professor who else eh?, with MS and Phd dont see, dont want to see, or dont want to tell is that yeah you are a professional you work for the biggest manufacturer, engineering, finance company in America, but you have to clock in "fifty hours a week in some office for fifity years which at the end they tell you to **** off, ending later in some retirment village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet in time." We are just like the little guy but with a bigger paycheck.


I think that we as country, should start to focus more on other ways of education than the typical university route. A BS, MS or Phd, its only a piece of paper that says you were a little bit intelligent while putting yourself through all the BS that universities demand these days in their curriculums for the sake of keeping the leaches in the system. Do not get me started

[ami1331]

Originally Posted by loras1

These are not true classifications at all.I have a BS in Chemical Engineering,a Masters in Chemical Engineering /Computer Science am making $20.00 han hour,do not own my own home and live paycheck to paycheck.Alot of my fellow coworkers and friends are in the same boat.

That is because you are living in Miami because elsewhere you would have gotten a high paying job and would live more comfortably than Miami. Miami is not for everybody.

[Edu983]

Originally Posted by loras1

These are not true classifications at all.I have a BS in Chemical Engineering,a Masters in Chemical Engineering /Computer Science am making $20.00 han hour,do not own my own home and live paycheck to paycheck.Alot of my fellow coworkers and friends are in the same boat.

What kind of idiot would get a Masters degree in chemical engineering to live in a tourism economy such as south florida???

Dont blame the city.... there are degrees who are not required in this city.

[seain dublin]

Originally Posted by Coconut1

Another day, another list, another 'whatever.'

Miami gets picked on a lot probably because it's actually known. Other hell holes like Marbury, AL don't get selected because frankly nobody has ever heard of them.

The percentage of miserable people you'll find in small town USA is most likely vastly larger than that of Miami.

Then explain the driving. People who are unhappy with some aspect of their lives take it on the world when they get behind the wheel of a car.

Where does all the aggresive driving come from if people are happy?

[mt971x]

I'd like to see ghettos in Miami to be completely gentrified to upper/middle class suburbs, rather than poverty ridden areas. Just redesign the broken parts of dade county, to safe neighborhoods for families, just like any other suburb in America, and I think it can change dade county a lot.

[Edu983]

Originally Posted by mt971x

I'd like to see ghettos in Miami to be completely gentrified to upper/middle class suburbs, rather than poverty ridden areas. Just redesign the broken parts of dade county, to safe neighborhoods for families, just like any other suburb in America, and I think it can change dade county a lot.

Ghettos in Miami are a small portion of the city.

[WINTERFRONT]

Half of Miami is a ghetto.

[Coconut1]

Originally Posted by seain dublin

Then explain the driving. People who are unhappy with some aspect of their lives take it on the world when they get behind the wheel of a car.

Where does all the aggresive driving come from if people are happy?

You tell me, you're obviously the doctor here

[Marina1686]

Originally Posted by loras1

What fields are you seeing these jobs advertised?Healthcare,maybe,but Science or Engineering ,no way,not in Florida because I have looked everywhere for years.I have a friend who has a Masters in a scientific field who is selling insurance,cannot get a job in her field down here.You may see one job opening every six to twelve monthes and twenty candidates.In Texas I was offered a job making 85K in an area with a lower cost of living

I perfectly understand your point. I have a friend who is a civil engineer and she is getting paid $16 an hour That same friend has a friend working in the same industry and she's making 37k and one of her classmates who was the best engineering student of the class is jobless and living in an efficiency with his girlfriend My other friend has a civil engineer friend waiting tables in Coral Gables becuase she cannot find an engineering job.

Currently, I'm working on the restaurant industry, but I'm getting my Advertising B.A. and as soon as I get my degree I'm leaving this dump forever. I'm not gonna work for $10-$12 p/h the rest of my life when up north I can get paid $20-$30 p/h.

I'm glad they put Miami as the most miserable city. Most outsiders think Miami is just beautiful beaches, tanned and rich people and warm weather and IT'S NOT! The only place like that is South Beach and the "beautiful" people are tourists, NOT LOCALS. Crossing the bridge is mostly poor, dangerous and full of people struggling. Miami's industry is tourism and low skilled jobs. This cuty is not for engineers, artists, business executives or other professionals. Miami is nice when you are filthy rich and don't have to work here or just for vacations. This place sucks, from the weather to the people...

[perry335654]

Originally Posted by Marina1686

I perfectly understand your point. I have a friend who is a civil engineer and she is getting paid $16 an hour That same friend has a friend working in the same industry and she's making 37k and one of her classmates who was the best engineering student of the class is jobless and living in an efficiency with his girlfriend My other friend has a civil engineer friend waiting tables in Coral Gables becuase she cannot find an engineering job.

Currently, I'm working on the restaurant industry, but I'm getting my Advertising B.A. and as soon as I get my degree I'm leaving this dump forever. I'm not gonna work for $10-$12 p/h the rest of my life when up north I can get paid $20-$30 p/h.

I'm glad they put Miami as the most miserable city. Most outsiders think Miami is just beautiful beaches, tanned and rich people and warm weather and IT'S NOT! The only place like that is South Beach and the "beautiful" people are tourists, NOT LOCALS. Crossing the bridge is mostly poor, dangerous and full of people struggling. Miami's industry is tourism and low skilled jobs. This cuty is not for engineers, artists, business executives or other professionals. Miami is nice when you are filthy rich and don't have to work here or just for vacations. This place sucks, from the weather to the people...

You're definitely one of the miserable.