Living here is like living in HELL (Miami: crime, price)

[popcorn247]

https://www.local10.com/family/zero-...n-the-u-s-list

[elchevere]

Another good reason I chose Miami...my fondness for children begins and ends at orgasm.

Originally Posted by popcorn247

https://www.local10.com/family/zero-...n-the-u-s-list

[popcorn247]

Originally Posted by elchevere

another good reason i chose miami...my fondness for children begins and ends at orgasm.

:d

[ruski]

So there are best places to live, but not to raise kids?

MONEY

[whelmed]

Just want to put my 2 cents in here - Been in Miami for over a year now and while YMMV, I love it here. I don't speak any Spanish and have yet to experience a problem professionally or personally with people not being able to communicate with me. I've lived in major city centers in 3 different countries, and as long as you have a 'good job' this place is dirt cheap. By good job I mean a professional something. You can get into top notch school districts, have nice sized homes, on reasonable lots, in the good areas of town for (high) 6 figures, which is $3000-4000 a month for full PITI on your mortgage at current rates. That amount can be serviced by 2x$60k salaries and appropriate budgeting. In San Francisco, Toronto, or London, $1m would buy you a small place where you would probably still need to send your kids to private school! $120k a year for a family of 4-5 in most other big cities would be near poverty levels (though still fine for a single person living in a small place).

[WINTERFRONT]

I know many New Yorkers who came down here at old age and they love Miami to no end. On the other hand, I know a bunch of New Yorkers who were brought down here (mostly in Broward) when they were little kids. They are the ones who feel miserable in SOFLA; not all of them, of course. My wife, who is a native New Yorker, just dreams of going back to New York to make a living. This place is just too empty for these young people. She has the means and a family to go back to, but I am the reason she has to continue living in Miami. I feel so bad about it.

[Monbus]

Take into account that Broward was inhabited by refugees from Miami..so a kid growing there might have received a lot of hate. Broward was packed with hate groups.

[pslhomie]

I have lived in Miami off and on since the early 80's and have seen it go from a sunshine destination for tourists to a haven for drug dealers and trafficers to a refugee camp and then to place where there are only houses and nothing to do. Traffic has become a nightmare. The people are rude at best and self centered morons who think the world revolves around them at the worst. No one speaks English here. It is a pit of doom if you move here. Now the big thing is illegal dumping. Miami is a pit. Better you stay out.

[BPt111]

Originally Posted by pslhomie

I have lived in Miami off and on since the early 80's and have seen it go from a sunshine destination for tourists to a haven for drug dealers and trafficers to a refugee camp and then to place where there are only houses and nothing to do. Traffic has become a nightmare. The people are rude at best and self centered morons who think the world revolves around them at the worst. No one speaks English here. It is a pit of doom if you move here. Now the big thing is illegal dumping. Miami is a pit. Better you stay out.

But 150-200 people move to Miami every week

[CXT2000]

Originally Posted by BPt111

But 150-200 people move to Miami every week

If you're talking strictly MDC, do note that last year the county saw a net gain of only 11.2K, that's really not a lot. Don't be surprised if in a couple of years those numbers become negative, while Broward and West Palm start to get 30K (and other parts of Florida of course).