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Why many people don’t give Latin America/Miami much credence is the same reason people don’t give Canada and Mexico much credit when making a point of how global a U.S. city is. Canada and Mexico are located in close proximity/same region to U.S. cities just like Miami is to many points in Latin America.
What is different from a short flight to the Caribbean/Central America/Northern tier of the South American continent as opposed to a flight from Chicago to Canadian cities or San Francisco to numerous Mexican locales?
Miami is closer to more Latin American cities than it is to other cities in its own country. So “Global” pertaining to Miami/Latin America is as much regional more than “Global”
Latin America is huge. Miami may be closer to the Caribbean portion than it is to other parts of the US, but South America is huge. Chileans, Argentinians, Brazilians, Colombians are a long ways away from Miami, while Atlanta is only a 1hr and half flight away. This also doesn't speak as to why Miami attracts so many Europeans. Both tourist and residents. Or why Miami attracts Israelis. I'm sure if Miami were on the westcoast, it'd attract more Asians. Every city benefits from proximity to a degree. Northeast cities have a builtin advantage merely due to settlement history. We can talk about proximity and advantages all night.
Like all cities past and present, world cities provide services but contemporary advanced producer services (e.g. accounting, advertising, finance, insurance, and law applied in transnational contexts) are different; they constitute a leading edge of the world economy in their own right.
In other words, it's a measure of a city's concentration of FIRE, law and public relations jobs.
HUh? your little LOL and link did nothing to address my challenge:
I challenge anyone here to name another city not named New York that is more profoundly linked to more countries and places in THIS hemisphere than Miami.
and since we're at it . according to you and some others, how did podunk resort town Miami manage to build the 3rd largest skyline in the US? Why here with all it's non importance and seriousness? Why not Atlanta or anywhere else for that matter? Do real estate investment dollars count? these are questions that have not been realistically addressed here and are often brushed off without real analysis.
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That’s the misperception many, such as yourself, have. Most of it has actually come from wealthy individuals—same people parking their money in NYC, London, etc. from mainly (not all) legitimate business ventures, be it from Europe, Canada, South America, Russia, and, recently, Turkey.
And for our Asian lovers who complained about the lack of direct connectivity from Miami, note the above Forbes article and upcoming direct Miami-Shanghai route....also, note below:
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You're posting evidence that it should be. If anything, don't use consulates as your defense, considering Miami has 11 NON-LATIN CONSULATES and only a handful of American cities -- most of them much older and more established -- have even 10 TOTAL.
And why are we even excluding Latin America anyway? Are they not a major part of the world?
Next, you'll post that it doesn't get cold in Canada, and use a picture of the Arctic North as evidence.
The evidence is that 11 is not nearly the amount of the top 5 have, Miami's non-Latin America consulate numbers are significantly lower than the others, the closest by my count is San Francisco at 28. After that it gets pretty bad for Miami comparing. It is more in line with Houston and Atlanta in that respect.
With that said Miami does better than a few of the top 5 within Latin America, and probably along with NYC has the best Latin America diversity in the world.
That’s the misperception many, such as yourself, have. Most of it has actually come from wealthy individuals—same people parking their money in NYC, London, etc. from legitimate business ventures, be it from Europe, Canada, South America, Russia, and, recently, Turkey ( not to mention US residents looking to relocate from high tax states).
And for our Asian lovers who complained about the lack of direct connectivity from Miami, note the above Forbes article and upcoming direct Miami-Shanghai route....also, note below:
No, its not a misperception. Miami exploded in the 80's because it was the center of the transnational cocaine trade. Even Pablo Escobar had a home in Miami.
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Sorry, but today’s skyline and city does not remotely resemble that from 3 or 4 decades ago and has nothing at all to do with Pablo Escobar, El Chapo, or Jimmy Eight Ball.
The transformation since that time has been dramatic and has moved well beyond the drug trade. Last I checked, and I live here, Escobar didn’t build up Brickell, Brickell City Center, downtown, Edgewater, Midtown, Design District, Bal Harbour and the beach areas. Be like comparing today’s Chicago with the Al Capone era.
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No, its not a misperception. Miami exploded in the 80's because it was the center of the transnational cocaine trade. Even Pablo Escobar had a home in Miami.
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Sorry, but today’s skyline and city does not remotely resemble that from 3 or 4 decades ago and has nothing at all to do with Pablo Escobar, El Chapo, or Jimmy Eight Ball.
The transformation since that time has been dramatic and has moved well beyond the drug trade. Last I checked, and I live here, Escobar didn’t build up Brickell, Brickell City Center, downtown, Edgewater, Midtown, Design District, Bal Harbour and the beach areas. Be like comparing today’s Chicago with the Al Capone era.
Miami's skyline exploded with a lot of residential development in the 1990s.
That turned out to be a local real estate bubble that burst. When I visited the city in the summer of 2008, a good number of those high-rise condo towers in Brickell, which had become Miami's second downtown (connected to the first by the MetroMover city-center elevated people mover), remained see-through structures.
They've been filled since then.
Were I to live there, I'd rather live on one of those artificial islands built to carry the Venetian Way Causeway, the first road linking Miami and Miami Beach, across Biscayne Bay.
I really don't get where these "Podunk" put-downs come from either. Miami swings with a beat you don't find in any other U.S. city, and Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine should have clued you all into that. Or maybe you're all too young to remember the TV series "Miami Vice." Just because the city began life as a tourist resort doesn't mean it can't grow up. It has, in spades.
EVERY airport in the country will tout they're working on gaining new air service. Until a carrier makes a filing with DOT and the associated authorities in China, Shanghai to Miami non-stop flights are just a wish. Eventually Miami will get a non-stop flight to East Asia, most likely to one of American's One World Partners, ie JAL to Tokyo.
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and since 2008 the new building has continued--Brickell Flatiron, Echo Brickell, Millicento, 4 separate SLS Brickell high rises, 1010 Brickell, Brickell House, Bond, Nine, Rise and Reach Brickell City Centre, 1000 Museum, Park Grove, Grove at Grand Bay, Marea, Peloro, Paramount, Biscayne Beach plus too many to name in Edgewater, Faena, Edition residences, Palau, Eden House, Fendi, Glass, Surf Club Four Seasons, One Ocean, etc. etc (leaving out at least a dozen new projects) with plans for even more new construction that just broke ground or will shortly--Aston Martin Residences, Una, Monad Terrace, etc.
Haters gonna hate.
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Miami's skyline exploded with a lot of residential development in the 1990s.
That turned out to be a local real estate bubble that burst. When I visited the city in the summer of 2008, a good number of those high-rise condo towers in Brickell, which had become Miami's second downtown (connected to the first by the MetroMover city-center elevated people mover), remained see-through structures.
They've been filled since then.
Were I to live there, I'd rather live on one of those artificial islands built to carry the Venetian Way Causeway, the first road linking Miami and Miami Beach, across Biscayne Bay.
I really don't get where these "Podunk" put-downs come from either. Miami swings with a beat you don't find in any other U.S. city, and Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine should have clued you all into that. Or maybe you're all too young to remember the TV series "Miami Vice." Just because the city began life as a tourist resort doesn't mean it can't grow up. It has, in spades.
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