People of Miami: what is it like to live there?

21 comments

1. 🔫🔫🔫🏎🏎💰💸💸

2. Walmart and Costco have a lot of larger people.

3. No one can be trusted. Everyone is a suspect
   and all the money’s worthless. The town is trite and exaggerated. The food is turning
   and the water is poisoned
   and it’s rotting your teeth right out of your head.
   Sight and hearing quickly faded. Your gut’s expanding. Your hairline’s receding. The sores are opening and the cancer’s spreading and the antibiotics aren’t working. All the drugs just strangely sobering and the skeletons in your closet have opened the door and they started talking.

   [Miami](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNf3XRwWlSs&ab_channel=AgainstMe%21-Topic)

4. Oh yeah I forgot ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

5. As a German, the videos you see of the US do not reflect reality.

6. Go play GTA: Vice City and you will find out

7. So gross.

8. I’ve never lived there, but I’ve been all over the US, and Miami had hands down the worst drivers I’ve ever seen in my life.

9. It’s hot. It’s humid. In many areas Spanish is far more important than English.

   But it’s a place. Everywhere is a place. There are families and schools and shops and businesses, and stores. People go about their business and live their lives. Just like anywhere else.

10. Miami is a big place. Even just South Beach vs. North Beach is a way different vibe.

    Hell, South Beach at 8am vs 8pm is a totally different vibe.

11. In the early 1990s it was very dangerous for German tourists.

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-09-mn-21008-story.html

12. Not from there but have been and it’s definitely a unique, cool city. Lots luxury condo buildings, hot & humid weather, great nightlife that rivals cities much larger than itself, crowded beaches, and the majority of the city’s residents actually speak Spanish as their first language. Very big travel hub for Latin Americans, very wealthy Latin diaspora, lots of big banks, tons of cruise ships, etc. Heavy, heavy Cuban influence.

13. Miami is a latino majority city, many people speak spanish as their first language and the city is effectively bilingual. many upper class people from latin america (esp venezuela) use miami as a place to park their money. while many of the middle and lower classes are also latinos, but usually from different countries.

    in terms of infrastructure it’s a US – style car dependent city with sprawling suburbs. but many houses are built in a spanish style.

    in many ways it feels like a latin american city within the united states, with all of the associated benefits and downsides of being in the US.

    personally i’m not interested in living there, but i have relatives there who enjoy it. for many people who want to start a business or work in the US, but don’t want to give up the latin american lifestyle miami can be a comfortable place to live.

14. Miami is great if you have money and live downtown or on the beach. Even better if you have water access and a boat.

    If you’re a normie, I hope you work near where you live. Otherwise you’ll have a bad time. Traffic is awful. Just awful.

    You do need to know enough Spanish in certain parts of Miami. At least enough to greet and order your favorite meal. Chances are you and whoever you’re talking to will know enough of the other’s primary language to communicate.

    I left just before the pandemic. Things like rent and homeowner’s insurance are out of control now. When I lived there, I was lucky enough to have 1/1 on Biscayne in North Miami for $1100 a month.

    Meeting people is not difficult. Meeting quality people is difficult. Between commuting and a lack of community, it can be a soul sucking place to live.

    It is very easy to have fun. Lots of people there are looking to have to fun. The amount of people I met at a Flannigan’s or a Duffy’s (North Miami Beach on the water) who shared coke or weed with me is numerous. More pretty women there than you can shake a stick at.

    Not a great place to raise a family just because of how spread out it is.

15. From a Californian’s perspective, I found that Miami had much in common with LA. It’s a miniority majority city. It’s a city with a lot of wealth and if you don’t have any… then you feel like a second class citizen.

    You need a car to get anywhere important and the traffic is almost as bad as LA. Or maybe a different type of bad. They have their crime problems as well and the economy seems to be built around tourism dollars. You’ll hear a lot of Spanish but not the Spanish that I’m used to… Food as well. (But that’s a good thing).

    I got the same superficial vibes from California there: everyone wanting to look good/plastic. Superficial charm. If they’re like Californians then it’s probably hard to make friends. Oh, and fuck the humidity. Extreme dry heat is so much better than even mild humid heat.

    Sorry, reading now, you want to know what it’s like to live there. I cannot answer that. Well here’s an American tourist’s take from across the country.

16. It’s Vegas but in the Caribbean.

    Loud. Fake. Exaggerated.

17. I spent a month in Miami for work back in 2002. That was enough to never make me want to step foot in that whole godforsaken state ever again…

18. Burn Notice, while a very entertaining show, is probably not reflective of real life in Miami.

19. I never know how to answer these.

    I lived in Miami a couple of years. Miami is not Miami Beach.

20. Miami is called the Capital of Latin America because of how many Spanish speakers live there. Both Univision and Telemundo are based in Miami.

    There’s also a sizeable portion of retired New Yorkers living there.

21. Cocaine and guns – I actually buy my weed up there, decent rates.