Why this place blows!!! (Miami, Tampa: relocating, apartment, income)

[Southfloridamiamian]

Miami is NOT as bad as people it make it seem here. Absurd. Even the Miami ghettos are not nearly as bad either not even little Haiti. Try living in Newark NJ, or some of the ghettos in LA. Now those are some real ghettos. From personal experience actually having lived or visited all these places, Miami is leave it to beaver literally, one of my cousins visited here and when i took him to places like little Havana and little Haiti he just laughed at me when i told him that these were some of the "bad" areas of Miami I remember my cousins having to walk me to school with a gun back in Newark. In some parts of LA just wearing the wrong colors no matter what race you are will get you shot. For all the Miami bashers calling it a third world country. Have ever of you even visited a third world country? I'm half Latin and i have. Trust me its not. You know what a third world country really is. It's little kids having to go sell candy on the streets barefoot. It means never knowing if you're going to have enough money to eat. For god sake being poor in Miami means having a car, cable TV, a wifi connection, and an ever growing obesity problem. Are Miami people rude. Hell yes we are and i say it proudly. New yorkers are just as rude and everybody seems to accept them. That is why some people call us the new York of the south other than the ever increasing skyline. Were rude and I love it. Miamians have attitude deal with it. Get over. I love cutting people have and flicking the finger when they cut me off. We are a rude arrogant but Hot looking people lol, but people will be nice to you if your nice to them. NOT ever body but the vast majority will. We are not a fake people. We say it like it is. If you want to be lied to go somewhere else. And thats a fact..Thats what happens when you live in a densely populated place like Miami. Well except if you live in San Fransisco lol. Miami is a great city. Sure we had our wild frontier days in the 80s, but every great city goes through that, and yes Miami is great. Am proud to be a miamian. Were not a bunch of illiterate beaners. You know the people that were actually born or raised here do speak English way better than Spanish. They do consider themselves Americans. Miami is growing. Most people around the world can only identify a few places in the US. Miami being one of them

Miami also has many problems. We have a nasty transportation system. The metro rail is not nearly long enough as it should be for our population. Some of our politicians are corrupt, but hey at least they admit it. And really an honest politician is an oxy moron. No body ever goes to a marlins game. We have too many things to do. Our schools are way too overcrowded, but they are building new schools. Immigrants also dint make learning English a priority. Which they should i think it brings a certain unity to a multicultural society. I will be the first to say this. Some of are people need to learn some damn English, but for the most part people here are bilingual. I saw this on a news channel the other day. Most second generation Hispanics actually assimilate faster than any other race beating the closes by 7 percent. Most forget Spanish and only talk English. Trust me my Spanish needs work.


REALLY READ THIS ONE. I guess not everyone hates Miami. Our population is expected to double by 2060. And the same for Florida. http://www.1000friendsofflorida.org/planning/2060.asp

Here read this were not as poor as people think we are. We can't all ride donkeys to work and send are kids to the streets to sell candy instead of school. http://www.miamiherald.com/103/story/86839.html

This is a San Francisco article. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...type=printable

Listen people Miami is a test. Most cities will be a minority majority in 50 years. So you better hope it works. All this bashing doesn't help. If it didn't work before, well too bad it's starting to work NOW. by 2012 we will have a biggest skyline after NY and Chicago. People love it here. the world loves it here. Sometimes it feels like if the world loves us more than our fellow Americans. Hopefully that changes. Miami is here to stay and will only get better.

[JDMR09]

Thank you, Southfloridamiamian!

[MelanieDawn]

Miami traffic can be terrible, no getting around that, but the reality is that there are many places (larger and smaller) with far worse traffic. We are not as spread out as LA, but nearly so. We can't have subways for obvious reasons - my sister jokes that we'd have to call them submarines instead We have a bit of a vicious cycle trying to get our mass transit going because, so far, service is limited. Because it is limited, ridership is low. But because ridership is low, it difficult to justify expansion.

I've been to LA many times and I'd say their traffic is far worse. So is New York's, but they have an extensive mass transit. And here, as someone already noted, at least the patterns are mostly predictible. And depending on where you live and where you have to go, you can almost always discover an alternate non-highway route that is quicker and/or just a nicer drive (the Old Cutler drive, for instance)

[CiXeL]

LA is much worse. it almost sounds to me that in this crap economy new york seems to be the only place doing well.

[Southfloridamiamian]

actually miamis GDP rate is 7%. Its one of the fastest growing economies in the country. Orlando is nothing more than a mickey mouse vacation town. The only reason prlando would have nicer roads is because orlando has like a fraction the number of roads miami has. Miami is a world city not some little suburb. Its the cultural and business center of florida. It has the biggest number of banks and foriengn banks in the country second only to new york. Orlando has goofey. lol I LOVE GOOFEY though

[CiXeL]

who cares what the GDP is if the people are hell to live and work with, the commutes are ungodly horrible and if most jobs require spanish.

orlando is more america than miami is by far.

miami is a joke and a bad one and i will warn every last person i can find to avoid coming here. i simply cant stand seeing people move here only to become embittered and jaded over and over and over.

[Southfloridamiamian]

Why u getting angry Cixel? Relax.

South Florida unemployment stays low
BY MATTHEW HAGGMAN
mhaggman@MiamiHerald.com

South Florida unemployment levels held steady in April, despite worries the housing market slowdown could weigh down the region's overall economy.

Broward's unemployment for April was 2.9 percent, the same as March and slightly below April 2006 when 3 percent of the county's labor force was out of work. In Miami-Dade, the April unemployment rate was 3.2 percent. That is just above March -- when 3.1 percent of workers were unemployed -- but an improvement from a year ago, when the county's unemployment rate was 3.6 percent.

South Florida led the state in over-the-year employment gains, adding 41,200 jobs.

Meanwhile, unemployment in Monroe County was 2.2 percent, largely the same as March and April. The numbers were released Friday by the state's Agency for Workforce Innovation.

Statewide unemployment was 3.4 percent, while the national jobless rate was 4.5 percent for April.
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Greater Miami and the Beaches topped Smith Travel Research's Top 25 Destinations in the US in February for both hotel occupancy and average daily rate, according to the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau. It was the first time a destination has reached number one in both categories. Miami was ranked second last year. This is the first time the Magic City beat New York in average daily rate and Oahu Island in occupancy. The February average daily room rate locally was $230.46. It was $216.80 in New York. Occupancy reached 81.7% in Miami and the Beaches and only 79.9% in Oahu Island.

[CiXeL]

yeah 41,000 customer service or manual labor jobs

the employment numbers are rigged all over the country though, so thats nothing new but it just means you cant state them as facts.

[Southfloridamiamian]

Uhuh...w/e you say cixel ...i love all the stats and articles and pictures you show me. So those jobs dont count. People dont make money doing those jobs. They get paid wiht pesos or something.

[JDMR09]

And again Orlando is years behind Miamis roads. Orlando has some preety bad roads as well Miami has way better roads and a better system.