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Old 04-30-2011, 08:28 PM
 
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Going at some point this Summer. Last went in 2005. Obviously, it wasn't THAT long ago, but is there anything noticeably different?
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Old 04-30-2011, 08:30 PM
 
Location: Eastern Time
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not at all
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Old 04-30-2011, 08:36 PM
 
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parking sucks
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Old 04-30-2011, 08:39 PM
 
Location: Lovely swampy humid Miami!
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Florida's a lot flatter.
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Old 05-01-2011, 09:14 AM
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Location: Planet Earth
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An interesting question. The changes are more subtle than major. IMO the crowding on Ocean Dr has decreased, while there are more people around Lincoln Rd and South of Fifth, Definitely there are a few more large buildings completed in SoFi, plus South Pointe Park. You find this reflected on the beach also, with more people south of 5'th and north of 15'th. The roads and sidewalks on Ocean Dr are also a bit less crowded than in 2005, even on weekends. And the pier at south pointe is now closed, there's a big fence around it.
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Old 05-01-2011, 03:20 PM
 
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Florida's a lot flatter.
And fatter.
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Old 05-01-2011, 05:34 PM
 
Location: South FL
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and fatter.
lol!
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Old 05-01-2011, 06:02 PM
 
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Sunny Isles looks like Las Vegas with all of its tall structures(A LOT OF NEW CONSTRUCTION) lining up down A1A
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Old 05-01-2011, 06:10 PM
 
Location: PNW, CPSouth, JacksonHole, Southampton
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Fontainebleau got a billion-Dollar renovation. Love the public areas (OK, maybe they're a little too Southbeach 1999 to do justice to Morris Lapidus' original masterwork...but they're definitely better than the previous re-do). But the rooms look like any old place in the Caribbean. Why, when the original premise "Like a French Chateau...but a Modern one...in Hollywood!" is so luscious? Why not let the designers run with that?
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Old 05-02-2011, 06:54 AM
 
Location: Free From The Oppressive State
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New condos have gone up further up the beach blocking the Bay breezes and views. This of course means parking is even worse than it was...which was already intolerable.

Other than that, you still have the incessant horn blaring, drunk partiers whoo-hooing at all hours of the night, bass rattling everything around in your house and hundreds of vacant eyed people wandering around, trying to look the part.

So, no...not much.
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