MIA lifestyle

[TurboS7]

What do you mean warehouse church? It is the preacher that is crazy and he admits it.

 

[positiveg]

The thing that sucks is that the middle class section is getting smaller by the day, and its hard to fit in.

How so? A middle class family would be able to afford a $400,000 townhouse? If so, there are lots of middle class people down here.

As for the lower class, I think they will be slowly driven out of here. The developers are buying the old to make way for the new. These are nothing a lower class family can afford.

 

[woofer_77]

How so? A middle class family would be able to afford a $400,000 townhouse? If so, there are lots of middle class people down here.

As for the lower class, I think they will be slowly driven out of here. The developers are buying the old to make way for the new. These are nothing a lower class family can afford.

Actually, a large portion of the money is coming from out of the area, in fact, much of it abroad. I saw in the paper a few weeks ago a graph of the median price of a home in Palm Beach County and the median income. The home price exploded while the income stayed exactly flat. People are definitely not making more down here. I know many people that are not able to move because they would get killed on their new property tax.

 

[TurboS7]

Guess that means that everyone is aviaton is considered lower class family, I know I sure can't afford a $400,000 house.

 

[C601]

Lets put it this way, $300K wont get you much in ft.lauderdale if your looking for buy a new townhouse (no garage)

Like Turbo said, ft lauderdale took it hard with Wilma, I see alot of blue roofs, up-rooted trees and places that still look a mess. Another direct hit this year which is only 3months away from hurrriance season, and you will see alot of people leave.....

 

[H.Agenda]

Miami..

I was born and raised there... IMHO, miami has taken a big dump. best years it had was in the late 90's. now its just too crowded among other things..

Easily one of the worst places to raise a kid i think. My little brother came home wearing his jeans loose by his as$ crack and i hung him off the porch from them about 5 years ago. he's a good kid now.

 

[Groundpounder]

How so? A middle class family would be able to afford a $400,000 townhouse? If so, there are lots of middle class people down here.

As for the lower class, I think they will be slowly driven out of here. The developers are buying the old to make way for the new. These are nothing a lower class family can afford.

No, the middle class can't afford $400k houses, so they are leaving. That equals less middle class. The lower class will always be around cause there will always be welfare and other crutches for them to live with.

Whatever, the area stinks on ice, I'm just happy I have a decent flying job. Hopefully my apartment doesn't get wiped out this hurricane season.

 

[mcjohn]

Whatever, the area stinks on ice

WTF?!...............

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

Hopefully my apartment doesn't get wiped out this hurricane season.

or changed into a condo...

CE

 

[Groundpounder]

or changed into a condo...

CE

Three of the complexes I looked at before I moved in where I am now have changed to Condos. If the one I am in now changes over, I am fuct. There just aren't any affordable rentals that aren't section 8.

 

[Fugawe]

If you don't like it, can't afford it, or expect it to suck even before you've been here -- don't come here. We have enough people here already. We don't need any more whining Jimmy Buffet wannabes, snowbirds, illegals, northeasterners, or closed-minded 'experts'.

Fugawe

 

[Twisted Mind]

What! No body even mentioned Ft. Pierce. FPR must has to be the arm pit of FL! 9 drive-bys in the first 3 months. Not bad for a city of 100,000. Some were in the day time. The most section 8 apartments on the tresure coast. Scary city at anytime.

 

[KeroseneSnorter]

I gotta agree with most on here. Miami is not part of the US anymore. I can hear more english in Hong Kong than you do in MIA.

They are literally scraping corpses off the streets on a daily basis, last summer during the MJ trial there was a triple murder on the streets, homeys laying dead everywhere and the news cut away to show MJ being driven to the court house........ALL 40 minutes of the drive. Dead kids on the street so much that it isn't even news anymore. If you have school age kids, I would stay far away, unless you be one o those rich folk wif the pricate skool monies!!! But you said you were a pilot so probably not!

"In todays news, massive carnage on the streets, what? oh wait, MJ in a CAR driving LIVE!!!!!"

 

[Groundpounder]

If you don't like it, can't afford it, or expect it to suck even before you've been here -- don't come here. We have enough people here already. We don't need any more whining Jimmy Buffet wannabes, snowbirds, illegals, northeasterners, or closed-minded 'experts'.

Fugawe

That leaves, what, three people?

 

[NuGuy]

Heyas,

As a native South Floridian, my $0.02 is that the others are right on. The whole area from MIA to PBI really has run into the ground.

When I was growing up, there was kind still some old school Florida thing going on, sort of the charming part of red-neck without all the inbreeding.

These days, Miami has become nothing short of a free-fire zone.

The local schools suck A$$. If you move down here, plan on paying for private school for the kids.

The local government is incompetent AND corrupt. I know we tend to say that about everywhere, but this is the only place I've seen that gives New Orleans a run for it's money.

Speaking of Louisiana, I thought they had the market on POS beaters on the road. Nope, there are more rolling sh!t boxes on the roads down here than you can believe, and all driving is done at absolute top speed when there isn't gridlock. If you are so unfortunate to get in an accident, chances are pretty good that the other driver has neither a license or insurance. Speaking of which, plan on paying twice the national average for insurance.

Rampant over-development has sucked up what little affordable housing there was. Every little postage stamp property is blossoming either a highrise or a two/three story duplex that runs right up to the property line. Forget affordable housing, let alone anything on/near the water. Lots on a stinky backwater of the New River start at 1 million +. If you are of moderate means, forget having a boat/airplane.

Retarded property tax laws result in you being locked into your house. You can't even downsize without paying a LOT more in taxes.

Who's moving down here? Obnoxious nouveau riche northerners trying to act Mafia, driving around in their leased SL500s. Their wives/girlfriends have a fashion sense that would make Liberace wince and probably have their overweight a$$ crack hanging out.

If, by some remote possibility, you have money left over to eat out, plan on eating at 4:30 with the old timers, otherwise it's crowd city.

Every "local" I know has cashed out of their real estate and headed north to Ocala, Okeechobee, Gainsville, Tallahassee or points north. The only good part is if you had a nice 3-4 bedroom home in SoFL, chances are you have enough equity to buy into a nice 2-3 acre airstrip home and had $$ left over for an airplane.

Nu

 

[getrad]

If you don't like it, can't afford it, or expect it to suck even before you've been here -- don't come here. We have enough people here already. We don't need any more whining Jimmy Buffet wannabes, snowbirds, illegals, northeasterners, or closed-minded 'experts'.

Fugawe

You forgot the Scarface wannabes. In my 2 months there right after Wilma, I must have seen that movie play a couple dozen times on the TV.

 

[bubbers44]

Nobody should come to south Florida. It really sucks and the traffic is horrible. We have been here over 15 years and the traffic is getting worse. Please stay up in that cold part. Try Bermuda or the Carribean. Just trying to keep our traffic down.

 

[Fugawe]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fugawe
If you don't like it, can't afford it, or expect it to suck even before you've been here -- don't come here. We have enough people here already. We don't need any more whining Jimmy Buffet wannabes, snowbirds, illegals, northeasterners, or closed-minded 'experts'.

Fugawe

That leaves, what, three people?

Ha, that's about right -- in the Miami area maybe (Keys too). That's why I don't live in the MIA area, or near it.

After our military time and we came back to FL, the wife and I knew we didn't want our kids growing up in the east coast environment of FL (MIA area). Drew a 120 mi ring around MIA and found normal life out near the edges of the ring.

Easy drive to work once/twice a week for trips, most speak english, schools are OK, crime is not a biggee. It is changing along with the rest of So FL, but forget the MIA area -- it's just a big, dirty, South American city. Nice to be able to leave it after work.

I travel deep south Am mostly -- I'd take Buenos Aires, Santiago, and maybe Sao Paulo over Miami anyday. Caracas and maybe some of the armpit Caribbean big cities are worse than Miami, but not much worse.

Fugawe

 

[woofer_77]

What! No body even mentioned Ft. Pierce. FPR must has to be the arm pit of FL! 9 drive-bys in the first 3 months. Not bad for a city of 100,000. Some were in the day time. The most section 8 apartments on the tresure coast. Scary city at anytime.

Ft. Pierce is the Treasure Coast and getting pretty far away from MIA, but I have heard of some bad stuff up there. A lot of the crime is moving north.

 

[big_al]

Miami is just like any other big city, especially los angeles. Lots of selfish people, lots of poor people, and lots of traffic.