Miami (South FL) Energy -vs- Los Angeles (Southern CA) Energy (best, better)
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I recently spent two weeks in Miami and my best friend who's a native of Los Angeles had nothing but negative things to say about Miami when I told her how beautiful I found it to be. I enjoyed LA, but it seemed to lack the energy of Miami/South FL. It's unexplainable, but Miami just seemed to have the extra "something" that I didn't get in LA. If you've experienced both, which did you find the most appealing/lively?
Miami is just more vibrant to me. They have many similarities to me, one just seems wet and the other seems dry. Miami just has this colorful energetic vibe about it and I've always felt that hispanic culture from the Caribbean and South America have more vibrancy than that of Mexico and Central America so that might influence it as well.
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I always imagined both to be a lively place but Miami really is most fast paced and party styled (Vibrant). Proof is in the construction boom, happened soooo fast....
But LA is definitely not a slouch, this thread just compares to Energy Power Houses at their best.
I want to spend more time in Miami, I was only there for about 4 days back in November. But I expected it to be more chaotic and vibrant than what I experianced, maybe b/c it was at the very beginning of their high season or something I dunno. But I do get what people are saying about that colorful, vibrant Latin/Caribbean culture it has. I remember going to the Bayside Marketplace after the Nets/Heat game and these bands playing and people dancing to Cuban music, it was pretty cool. Cuban music seems more vibrant/upbeat than Mexican/mariachi type stuff.
But overall I feel LA has more going on, seems more chaotic and crazy to me, and is so much larger. But I've also spent much more time there than in Miami and for being a much smaller metro, it does pack quite a punch.
Los Angeles is way bigger and also with obviously more people and it offers a few more things, however here is the problem due to the size that LA metro takes it brings down a lot of the vibrancy and its just to scattered and at times a bit dissapointing (the places the the vibrant atmostphere has)
Los Angeles hispanic population is most mexicans and it is quite arguable that Latins always add that extra push on the vibrant atmostphere, Miami mostly has cubans/Caribbeans which in my opinion they add more than the over populating mexicans. (no offence to anyone that is mexican)
and in all, who ever says LA is more vibrant than Miami is a completely fool and its just trying to show off, LA and Miami can share vibrancy about in the same stage or if not (in my opinon) Miami does it a bit better.
Lived in Miami...live in LA now...definitely here, but that's just my opinion...
why definitively in LA? like whats the deal in LA? celebrities, Hollywood... not the LA that regular people are shown, besides Miami offers plenty of celebrities and better beaches/ better nightlife
Los Angeles is way bigger and also with obviously more people and it offers a few more things, however here is the problem due to the size that LA metro takes it brings down a lot of the vibrancy and its just to scattered and at times a bit dissapointing (the places the the vibrant atmostphere has)
Los Angeles hispanic population is most mexicans and it is quite arguable that Latins always add that extra push on the vibrant atmostphere, Miami mostly has cubans/Caribbeans which in my opinion they add more than the over populating mexicans. (no offence to anyone that is mexican)
and in all, who ever says LA is more vibrant than Miami is a completely fool and its just trying to show off, LA and Miami can share vibrancy about in the same stage or if not (in my opinon) Miami does it a bit better.
Crazy talk. Miami is a suburb compared to LA. LA is the epitome of vibrancy and diversity. Miami can't compare.
LA doesn't have to show off. Especially versus Miami.
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