top 5 worst and best Miami neighborhoods (Hialeah, Pembroke Pines: new home, school, university)

[JackTheRipper]

Worst: Opalocka/Carol City, Hialeah, Naranja, Goulds, Liberty City, Little Haiti, Overtown

Best: Coral Gables, West Miami, Kendall, Pinecrest, Some parts of miami beach, Star Island, Fisher Island.

[PBCboy]

Originally Posted by jack the ripper

Worst: Opalocka/Carol City, Hialeah, Naranja, Goulds, Liberty City, Little Haiti, Overtown

Best: Coral Gables, West Miami, Kendall, Pinecrest, Some parts of miami beach, Star Island, Fisher Island.

I wouldn't group Hialeah in with those other cities.

[rnc2mbfl]

Originally Posted by jack the ripper

Worst: Opalocka/Carol City, Hialeah, Naranja, Goulds, Liberty City, Little Haiti, Overtown

Best: Coral Gables, West Miami, Kendall, Pinecrest, Some parts of miami beach, Star Island, Fisher Island.

Star Island and Fisher Island ARE part of Miami Beach.....as are Hibiscus and Palm Islands and most of the Venetian Islands.

[ddrox08]

Minus Hialeah and add Miami Gardens. Hialeah isn't dangerous, just ugly

[caddy40]

What parts of miami should i look for condo. I would like it to be close to the clubs,airport,and most important a safe neighborhood. Thanks a 46 year old male that here in cold ohio. Thanks

[burgler09]

How much you looking to pay? I'd recommend Brickell.

[caddy40]

Thanks for inforamation. I been looking at bank repo

[kevinkagy]

Best: Downtown, Brickell, South Beach, Aventura, Miami Shores, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Fisher Island, Venetian Islands, Pinecrest, Palmetto Bay, South Miami, Key Biscayne and Miami Shores.

Worst: Liberty City, Opa-Locka, and Overtown.

[kevinkagy]

Originally Posted by caddy40

What parts of miami should i look for condo. I would like it to be close to the clubs,airport,and most important a safe neighborhood. Thanks a 46 year old male that here in cold ohio. Thanks

I'd strongly suggest Brickell. It has a lot of restaurants, bars, clubs, museums, civic events, parks, and really great public transit. It's also 5-10 minutes from MIA, Civic Center, South Beach, Key Biscayne, Coconut Grove, South Miami and Miracle Mile. It's also very safe and pretty upscale.

[somebodymiami]

Originally Posted by Phil~Denver

Now let's examine what I consider the "Worse" and "Worst" neighborhoods of Miami, Cuba.

All Latino/Hispanic ares if you don't speak spanish fluently and unintelligibly as it is spoken there. I lived in Spain as an international student and when I moved to Miami I had to learn a whole new language, it's called "Cuban".

Starting with Little Havana and the surrounding areas. Picture Cuba or Venezuela and all it's craziness transported literally to the United States. some streets are so polluted with litter that it piles up on the corners. If you don't speak spanish you will completely lost since even the street signs are in spanish. It characterized by substandard poverty and so much crime that all of the houses brandish Burglar Bars in all shapes and sizes.

Hialeah isn't much better.
West Miami is the same, from North Kendal to Sweetwater, Westchester, Flagami area, Miami Gardens, Hialeah Gardens and Doral, the scenery is all in spanish and you feel you are in another country. Burglar Bars, Crazy Drivers, unruly pedestrians, Gang activity on every corner, not to mention the loud Spanish music played from every house at all hours of the night and especially on weekends, cars parked on laws and over sidewalks. I lived near the FIU campus for a while near Coral Way, which by the way is a really nice area once you get close to Coral Gables and out of the Spanish areas. My townhouse looked like a prison, my neighbors were loud and disrespectful and several nights were interrupted with gunshots and police sirens.

Thank goodness I was able to move to North Miami Beach because I had starting not liking Miami. NMB was so much more pleasant and centrally located than the westchester townhouse.

North Miami Beach is much better, it's truly diverse and less ethnocentric than those Cuban areas of W and SW Dade. Crime is much less, I can go to the beach w/o having to get on a freeway and best of all, I can see out my Window!!!

Mod deleted

Im gonna have to agree but disagree with your post....

I live in west miami right on the outskirts of little havanna on 8th street ... sure i hear sirens pretty much 24/7 but its not really because its a bad area but more because of flagler and 8th street being very busy streets .. Yes there are burglar bars on pretty much every other house its ugly yes but again it doesnt really mean its a bad area... Im white and i dont know anything but basic spanish and i get along fine... sometimes its difficult to order things but it gets done.. and as previously stated anyone under the age of 30 can speak english pretty good... Its just the old people who dont know any english.... Yes the driving sucks ive seen people get hit by cars, blocks taped off from hit and runs but w.e alot of people live here and **** happens. Ive known people that have gotten shot but never heard the shots living here myself... Also occasionally on the weekends and pretty much every holiday someone will have a big party up to all hours of the night blaring music but who cares personally i enjoy it .. i go to sleep with the radio on anyway.