Thoughts on Miami-Dade County (Orlando, Kendall: rent, good schools, living)

[perry335654]

To get back the OP,Miami has the third largest skyline, based on the number of buildings over 5oo feet , how long we keep that place, no telling as other big cities are building rampantly but it is a marvelous skyline appearance from the bay. Miami to most is really not about large buildings but about beautiful waters, palm trees and sunshine. Visitors here see the beauty of the city from just the resorts they stay in they don't see the bad areas like the locals have, I guess Miami has a way of hiding the bad areas or they are not as bad as other large cities.

People who live here either hate it or love it I believe, most come with an idyllic Eden perception of this city and are disappointed when this is not the case and others who come with average expectations are the ones who love it and adapt to it.

[miamikid0]

Originally Posted by perry335654

To get back the OP,Miami has the third largest skyline, based on the number of buildings over 5oo feet , how long we keep that place, no telling as other big cities are building rampantly but it is a marvelous skyline appearance from the bay. Miami to most is really not about large buildings but about beautiful waters, palm trees and sunshine. Visitors here see the beauty of the city from just the resorts they stay in they don't see the bad areas like the locals have, I guess Miami has a way of hiding the bad areas or they are not as bad as other large cities.

People who live here either hate it or love it I believe, most come with an idyllic Eden perception of this city and are disappointed when this is not the case and others who come with average expectations are the ones who love it and adapt to it.

We sure do have a LOT of palm trees lol. I can see why people wouldn't like it here. I go up North & people are a lot more chattier with strangers. While here people tend to keep to themselves. Not sure why. You're right though, people that vacation here just see the sunshine and the beach. But few actually get to see the real dade county.

[MadManofBethesda]

Originally Posted by LordHomunculus

Las Vegas 2012 population - 596,424
Miami 2012 population - 413,864

The Las Vegas metro area also cracked 2 million. So yes, LV is considered a big city and it's a younger one too.

Interesting bit of trivia: the Las Vegas Strip is not in the City of Las Vegas.

Originally Posted by perry335654

Yea Tampa has that much population metropolitan wise of 2 million and is not considered big Miami is 5 million plus.

Miami metropolitan area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That's only true if you count Ft. Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, West Palm beach, Boca Raton, and Boynton Beach. If you limit "Miami" to what generally is considered....you know....Miami...(Miami, Miami Beach, Kendall, etc.), then the population is a little under 2.5 million.

IOW, Miami-Dade County's population is 2.5 million and Clark County's (Las Vegas) is a little over 2 million, so yeah, I think most people would consider them comparable.

[perry335654]

Las Vegas looks like Overtown away from the strip, there downtown is rinky -dink and rundown along with few to no trees.

[Winchupuata]

Miami can be great if you can afford it and are able to keep yourself away from the suburbs and just stay on the east side, Brickell, Downtown, South Beach, areas like that.

Miami is pretty horrendous if you have to live somewhere west and have no money.

[miamikid0]

Originally Posted by Winchupuata

Miami can be great if you can afford it and are able to keep yourself away from the suburbs and just stay on the east side, Brickell, Downtown, South Beach, areas like that.

Miami is pretty horrendous if you have to live somewhere west and have no money.

Yes, all the action tends to be on the east side. True about the money, you don't know how many times I have heard people wanting to get out of here but have no money to move. Which was a situation in my family.

[unquiltom]

I generally enjoy living here, but the lack of income potential compaired to other places makes living here tough. Also, the traffic and the fact that many drivers are rude and inconsiderate keeps me from wanting to drive anywhere. I just had 20 days off for vacation, but couldn't afford to go anywhere. Other than a couple of day trips to the Keys, I never ventured more than a few blocks from my house. There's no interesting places to just take a drive to, something I really enjoyed doing when I lived in San Diego.

[missakg]

This thread seems to be really insightful, for someone like me who's about to relocate to Miami... I was looking at Kendall since I'll be working in Dadeland. Is Kendall considered east or west?

[miamikid0]

Originally Posted by missakg

This thread seems to be really insightful, for someone like me who's about to relocate to Miami... I was looking at Kendall since I'll be working in Dadeland. Is Kendall considered east or west?

Kendall is in the Southwest section of dade county. But then again SW dade is pretty big. It stretches from Flagler down to homestead.

[valicky]

Originally Posted by missakg

This thread seems to be really insightful, for someone like me who's about to relocate to Miami... I was looking at Kendall since I'll be working in Dadeland. Is Kendall considered east or west?

There's east Kendall and west Kendall. Dadeland's in east.