Possible move to Miami - Educate Me

[Klaus]

The seafood yes.....Cuban food and all the others are great but I would be there for the Stone crabs and all the other seafood there....love them. Joe's is a landmark in Miami history.

Joe's Stone Crab

In 1913, Joe Weiss opened up a small lunch counter on Miami Beach. This was before Miami Beach was even a city. Folks stopped in to chat and for a top-notch fish sandwich and fries. This, of course, was only the beginning, and what happened next is a story worth telling.

joesstonecrab.com

My nuts are sore for Joes Stone Crab right now.

If you are a fan of Miami read "Desperado." This is the biography of Jon Roberts who was a smuggler for the Medellin cartel. He is a prominent character in the Cocaine Cowboys documentary. The book is incredible and highly recommended.

I mention in the context of Joes as he was plugged into the Nixon white house and would send gifts of Joes Stone crabs to some of his cronys in the white house. They would be picked up via fighter jet. In exchange they would bring Coors beer which was not available east of the Rockys and to be able to drink in Miami was baller AF.

 

[CompOrange04GT]

True for the metropolitan areas in a lot of states, but once you're out of the city it's not much of a melting pot in a lot of places. Even in states like Maine, NH and Vermont the population is over 90%+ white. I imagine Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota are roughly similar. A few other states have just as little multi-culturalism. Personally, I like access to multi-cultural cities but at the end of the day I want to be with people of similar backgrounds. It's a comfort zone kind of thing to me.

P.S. I don't think this thread has really performed too well as a welcome wagon for the city of Miami. OP should visit for himself I think.

Yeah but who tf wants to go to NH, Vermont, or Maine for a vacation? LOL

And **** that weather.


There's a reason only white people are in those places.

 

[Klaus]

P.S. I don't think this thread has really performed too well as a welcome wagon for the city of Miami. OP should visit for himself I think.

LOL that someone would move to Miami without ever visiting. OP should write a blog about all the crazy shit he saw.

Day 1 of my life in Miami: "Today I was mugged by a Cuban transvestite. I did not realize that English is not spoken in most of the city and he punched me for attempting to communicate with him in my native language."

Day 2 of my life in Miami: "Today I saw more orthodox jews than I knew existed"

Day 3 of my life in Miami: "Today we got 8 inches of rain in an hour. I was stuck in traffic the entire time."

 

[SID297]

Quick background, my wife applied for a job within her company that would move us from Orange County, CA to the Miami area. It's a sales regional director, so there isn't an office she would need to go to, just the Miami area. Combined we currently make $350K, but this position would pay her $450K, so even if I became a trophy husband it's a decent pay increase.

For those familiar with the area, what are the pros and cons of this? How's the cost of living there (can't be worse than CA)? How's the quality of life there? Decent area for quiet family life (2yr old and 5 yr old)? Are there neighborhoods we could get a roughly 4000 sq ft home with a yard, and what do those cost? I have never been there, so I have absolutely no idea. Thanks everybody!

How close to Miami does she have to be? There's definitely some options that would work for me.

I will not tell you that I found paradise because **** off we’re full. But there is no where else in America I would rather live.
It’s expensive as **** and yes it is busy but no place is 100% spot on perfect.

I have to live in a warm tropical zero winter climate. No ****in ifs ands about it.

If it were not for southern Florida I would pack up and move to the Caribbean. Ded. Fkn. Srs.

I considered moving to Puerto Rico a few years ago. The tax benefits are ridiculous.

Modding cars and less taxes.

From OC - Dade property taxes are probably similar. However, OP is probably also looking at a 13% pay raise just skipping out on state income tax.

 

[CompOrange04GT]

LOL that someone would move to Miami without ever visiting. OP should write a blog about all the crazy shit he saw.

Day 1 of my life in Miami: "Today I was mugged by a Cuban transvestite. I did not realize that English is not spoken in most of the city and he punched me for attempting to communicate with him in my native language."

Day 2 of my life in Miami: "Today I saw more orthodox jews than I knew existed"

Day 3 of my life in Miami: "Today we got 8 inches of rain in an hour. I was stuck in traffic the entire time."

The problem is.....

What you're saying isn't an exaggeration AT ALL

 

[VegasMichael]

Yeah but who tf wants to go to NH, Vermont, or Maine for a vacation? LOL

And **** that weather.


There's a reason only white people are in those places.

Those states actually get packed during the summer months with vacationers. Lots of natural beauty and lakes and ocean. Winter brings a lot of skiers from around the world. Fall is beautiful. Over the years people seem to have really started complaining more about cold and snow. I love it. Blacks and Hispanics are historically from warmer climates so it makes sense there is a dearth of them there.

 

[VegasMichael]

LOL that someone would move to Miami without ever visiting. OP should write a blog about all the crazy shit he saw.

Day 1 of my life in Miami: "Today I was mugged by a Cuban transvestite. I did not realize that English is not spoken in most of the city and he punched me for attempting to communicate with him in my native language."

Day 2 of my life in Miami: "Today I saw more orthodox jews than I knew existed"

Day 3 of my life in Miami: "Today we got 8 inches of rain in an hour. I was stuck in traffic the entire time."

I moved to Vegas without ever visiting. My parents moved us to Chicago and then Philadelphia without ever visiting. It happens.

 

[CompOrange04GT]

I moved to Vegas without ever visiting. My parents moved us to Chicago and then Philadelphia without ever visiting. It happens.

Places I moved without visiting:

I moved to ND without over visiting too. $50 an hour helped though. Lol

Also moved to Chino, CA. ( When i got a job with a vendor on this site) That place was nice but that was like 2015

Fort Collins CO without visiting. One of the top 5 night lifes in America for your average person.

Vegas ( Well Henderson) .. Never ****ing going there again

Hobbs New Mexico - a hot version of North Dakota

Now Texas.... Im ****ing staying here

 

[BlckBox04]

My nuts are sore for Joes Stone Crab right now.

If you are a fan of Miami read "Desperado." This is the biography of Jon Roberts who was a smuggler for the Medellin cartel. He is a prominent character in the Cocaine Cowboys documentary. The book is incredible and highly recommended.

I mention in the context of Joes as he was plugged into the Nixon white house and would send gifts of Joes Stone crabs to some of his cronys in the white house. They would be picked up via fighter jet. In exchange they would bring Coors beer which was not available east of the Rockys and to be able to drink in Miami was baller AF.

The original documentary about Cocain Cowboys was about him and Grisellda Blanco

 

[04MysticCobra]

My nuts are sore for Joes Stone Crab right now.

If you are a fan of Miami read "Desperado." This is the biography of Jon Roberts who was a smuggler for the Medellin cartel. He is a prominent character in the Cocaine Cowboys documentary. The book is incredible and highly recommended.

I mention in the context of Joes as he was plugged into the Nixon white house and would send gifts of Joes Stone crabs to some of his cronys in the white house. They would be picked up via fighter jet. In exchange they would bring Coors beer which was not available east of the Rockys and to be able to drink in Miami was baller AF.

Tell me about it would love some of those for breakfast. That sounds like an interesting read. I don't get down there enough but have relatives and friends in the area. Leaving in a month for a few weeks but not getting down south to Miami. Will be up north in the lovely golf resort area of Ponte Vedra beach where my friend lives. Too much money there....lol...and the beach club is amazing.

 

[VegasMichael]

Places I moved without visiting:

I moved to ND without over visiting too. $50 an hour helped though. Lol

Also moved to Chino, CA. ( When i got a job with a vendor on this site) That place was nice but that was like 2015

Fort Collins CO without visiting. One of the top 5 night lifes in America for your average person.

Vegas ( Well Henderson) .. Never ****ing going there again

Hobbs New Mexico - a hot version of North Dakota

Now Texas.... Im ****ing staying here

Sometimes jobs force you to move places. I initially only planned on staying in Vegas for a year or two but things worked out for me professionally so I stayed even though I didn't care for the area.

 

[03cobra#694]

Jamaican food

I have a Jamaican neighbor right next door who'll bring stuff over every now and then. Yummy. The cabbage is a little bland, but the jerk chicken, curry goat, Ox tail and rice and beans are legit.

 

[Zemedici]

I have a friend down there and kind of like it… for a weekend. Wouldn’t do kids there though.

This.

Wife and i went last year and loved it.

Problem is crack houses are $1,000,000.

And man i have never been offered more drugs in the first hour of my day, than in Miami.

 

[B7BlownSnake]

Haha thanks for all the replies! Fun read. We will definitely visit if she gets the job. As far as Spanish, I know like 10 words but wife is fluent (her parents were born in Medellin). My friend's parents and his in-laws both have apartments next to Fontainebleau, so I have a free place to stay.

We don't like city life, so we would want to be out in some type of suburb. And sounds like she doesn't have to be too close to the city, so we could look around.

 

[CompOrange04GT]

I have a Jamaican neighbor right next door who'll bring stuff over every now and then. Yummy. The cabbage is a little bland, but the jerk chicken, curry goat, Ox tail and rice and beans are legit.

I've learned with things like that. You gotta be jamaican or something. I've tried NOPE.. cant do it.

Problem with where I live is so " Texas" they just want tex-mex food, and BBQ... Any time an ethnic place tries other than a shitty chinese place. It never makes it.

Then you got the white trash mullet idiots opening food trucks thinking they are Gordon Ramsey

 

[rotor_powerd]

Haha thanks for all the replies! Fun read. We will definitely visit if she gets the job. As far as Spanish, I know like 10 words but wife is fluent (her parents were born in Medellin). My friend's parents and his in-laws both have apartments next to Fontainebleau, so I have a free place to stay.

We don't like city life, so we would want to be out in some type of suburb. And sounds like she doesn't have to be too close to the city, so we could look around.

One of my engineers lives in Homestead. All I know is it’s south of Miami but not sure how far in traffic if you had to commute to the city regularly. He married a Cuban chick which is why they are there, but they love it - apparently that community is extremely far right politically.

I’ve never been south of the city but we love visiting the Deerfield/Pompano area. Not sure I’d ever want to live there, also may still be too far out to commute to Miami city regularly.

 

[BlueSnake01]

Is Miami traffic that bad? Cant be any worse than the I-405/I-5 in LA, can it?

 

[03Sssnake]

The cars and boats that you see all over the place in that area are insane. Always takes me by surprise the first day or two I’m there.

The boats there are dingys compared to what I have seen in Monaco..I was there for a schlumberger conference years ago. I was just awe of the yahts there, ****ing mansions on the water…

Helo in from Nice….

 

[04MysticCobra]

The boats there are dingys compared to what I have seen in Monaco..I was there for a schlumberger conference years ago. I was just awe of the yahts there, ****ing mansions on the water…

Helo in from Nice….

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Love Monaco and the french/italian riviera. I know someone who lives in the hills above Monaco and her daddy is a wealthy shipping line owner. She used to race Porsches thanks to her daddy and was at the Gran Prix every year. 1 in 3 residents of Monaco are millionaires. Its where Princess Grace died in the hills above Monaco in her car crash. You can rent entire houses AirBnB in the hills above Monaco for less than most traveled spots in the USA. Plan on it before the dirt nap.

 

[BrunotheBoxer]

How close to Miami does she have to be? There's definitely some options that would work for me.



I considered moving to Puerto Rico a few years ago. The tax benefits are ridiculous.



From OC - Dade property taxes are probably similar. However, OP is probably also looking at a 13% pay raise just skipping out on state income tax.

I would rather live in parts of PR than about 47 of the United States.
But there are Caribbean islands much safer and offer a better quality of life for Americans.