I Hate Miami
Miami, La Ciudad Que Progresa Pobreza
Miami, Florida - "Magic City"....yeah right! City government must be referring to all the Voodoo and Santeria that goes on in this, the Southern Most Swamp. Take it or leave it, Miami is a 3rd world city. I'd rather leave it; I really, really hate Miami.
Hate is a rather strong word. Regardless, hate, is all around when it comes to Miami. Hate is magical when it comes to Miami. People say that New Yorkers are rude, but Miamians take the world cup of rudeness year after year.
Many people refer to Miami as the whole of Miami-Dade County. Miami is a city within Miami-Dade County with a relatively small and densely packed population and awkward government; similar to nothing else in the great United States--a dump by it's own makings! Nonetheless, we are all packed in so tightly that there is really no difference between Miami and anything else around the city. There is no 20 foot high wall separating anything. Although, Miami Lakes (a city within Miami Dade County), does separate itself from the blacks in Opa-Locka with lakes and canals and from the Cubans in Hialeah and the Dominicans in Miami Gardens with busy highways.
Welcome to the gateway to Latin America
For visitors, the minute they get off the plane into Miami International Airport (MIA) they are encountered by hate filled people; and that's just the tip of the ice berg!
I used to work for a company that was headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Every single time someone from Arizona came to Miami they would always ask us why the airport employees were so rude and outright nasty. The nastiness at MIA affected them so much that, after a while, they refused to fly into MIA and opted for Fort Lauderdale International; adding a whole extra hour to their commute on Miami's infamous roads--but still avoiding the savages at MIA.
Opting for another airport is just one of the tactics, coping mechanisms-if you will-that you have to develop in order to survive or visit Miami.
As the self proclaimed "Gateway to Latin America" you would imagine that Miami is a thriving metropolis of commerce, industry, and technology (not that there is any technology in South America or the Caribbean--let's be honest!). You might also imagine that the streets are lined with culturally diverse shops and culinary establishments reflecting the cultural diversity of Latin America. Dream on you silly goose! You wouldn't want to set foot in any one of those places.
Take a stroll down Miami's Calle Ocho (South West 8 Street) from the Palmetto Expressway (FL-826) to downtown Miami and if you make it unscathed and untraumatized, from one end to the other, you deserve an award. Miami bills Calle Ocho as the center of all that's Latin in Miami. How embarrassing! The County cannot help it; it does try very hard to make this city something other than what it's residents turn it into.
Not to long ago, millions of dollars were spent rebuilding the street, installing new side walks to create a pedestrian atmosphere; even outrageously expensive street lights were installed along with palm trees to improve the look of the street. All that was done in the hopes that businesses would also do their part and spruce up their store fronts. As expected, by those of us who know better, the sprucing up never happened! In fact, businesses are now using the new side walks as parking lots for their customers and the used cars that they sell. The trees are used for shade by the migrant workers who gather every morning looking for work. But I do have to give city planners credit for installing the street lights high enough so that the prostitutes and mojones (Latin street youth) could not blow them out with rocks.
The same pattern follows any and every major artery in the Miami Dade County. From Calle Ocho to Martin Luther King Boulevard to Quail Roost Drive, no matter how many millions of dollars are spent redeveloping, these savages will continue with their ways turning everything into the same shit pit they left behind in Latin America.
Survival of the Savages
You either adapt or you die down here. Adapting pretty much means that you part ways with your education and every ounce of decency and morals that you were ever taught and become one of them. Keep in mind that in Miami, you are living (scratch that) surviving among savages. In my opinion, Miamians rank at the lowest of the lows. These people are competing with the scum under a barrel. You don't have to go very far to find that everyone with a sense of decency that remains in this city holds the same opinion of these savages; click your way over to www.city-data.com and catch up on the latest and greatest posts about this shity!
These people are angry, bitter, vile uneducated scum. In November 2006, Congressman Trancredo called Miami a "Third World Country" and Miamians, in their infinite stupidity backlashed. Fools paraded the local news with idiotic replies that the Congressman must be a third class person since he's calling Miami a third world city. Rather than admit their own degenerate lifestyle and inferiority to the rest of the nation, these savages retaliated with stupidity beyond comprehension. Even then Florida Governor Jeb Bush jumped in to defend Miami and the Latinos. The Cubans were up in arms. Such behavior is typical of these savages. Rather than admit their own faults, they pretend that their pathetic precious shity is a world class metropolis.
Congressman Trancredo's reply to Governor Jeb Bush: "I certainly understand and appreciate your need and desire to create the illusion of Miami as a multiethnic 'All American' city," Tancredo wrote. "I can also appreciate that Miami's schools graduate many outstanding students and that the cultural and ethnic diversity of the city offers many advantages to its residents. "However, it is neither naïve nor insulting to call attention to a real problem that cannot be easily dismissed through politically correct happy talk."
Owning a gun in Miami is a must; as necessary as access to 911 and someone who will install cheap iron bars on your ranch style overpriced dwelling. These savages have no respect for life nor property. The sad part is that Miami-Dade Police (a joke in itself) supports the criminals over the victims. The savages will kill you in cold blood to steal the keys in your pocket. They will run you over while you cross the street because in their vile mentality that's perfectly fine. They will thrive in your neighborhood and own it while you barricade yourself inside. They will crash into you just because their rage is so potent.
Working in Miami
Everywhere you go in Miami you find these savages thriving. Since 1991 Miami has become a haven for the second class filth. You can only imagine how miserable it is to work in this shity.
It's quite confusing really; they all walk around calling themselves "professionals". OK, for proof read the personals on any of those personal boards and check out Miami's "professionals". Everyone that makes over $30,000 a year and has their own car is a professional on those sites. By the way, making $30,000 in Miami is, regardless of how over qualified you are, next to impossible. I joke all the time telling people that it takes 10 Miami-jobs to pay a rent down in this dump. But back to the pros... Now, end up down here working with them and then you, like I, will begin to wonder who has re-written the definition for "professional" to the point where they consider themselves to be such.
What amazes me the most is that the more ghetto and low life you are the greater you will be rewarded at work. You can come right off the street with absolutely no formal education but as long as you talk trash, wear the BLING, and hint that you can hook them up with drugs you sir/mam are the next VP!
Landing a job, a decent job in this shity is next to impossible. Do not be surprised if during an interview your formal education and degree seem pointless. No one in Miami cares if you have a degree; they just want to know if you are capable of navigating through the ghetto that Miami's business environment has turned into. Business standards have gone out the door and what works is whatever can get you through to the next quarter. Reason why so many top companies have chosen to leave Miami-Dade County for Broward County; just next door.
Good employees have also fled the shity in herds. Every recruiter in this shity will tell you just how difficult it is to find qualified candidates. Finding someone without a criminal record is next to impossible. If a company has a drug free workplace policy it might as well toss it out the window. The policy will eliminate nearly 40% of it's potential workforce. Then comes the language barrier; no one speaks English in Miami and if they do it's pretty much unintelligible. They can't speak; they can't write; they have no idea how business is conducted in the United States---it's a huge dilapidated mess.
Miami - Magic City
That's always funny! This Shity promotes itself in so many ways it is not. Have you ever wondered why you never, and will never, see pictures of Miami from ground level? In every commercial, every travel brochure, every piece of literature I have ever seen there has never been a ground level shot of Miami. Silly goose, that's because Miami looks like shit!
They always show you pictures of the skyline....as if we live and walk 500 feet up in the air. They never show you the filth on the street. They always make it seem like Miami is filled with the sounds of the ocean and the caressed by an always constant ocean breeze. Reality? Miami sounds like the ghetto with cars blasting their bass and mufflers and motorcycles killing the silence and peace that has been missing for so long that I can't even remember.
The ocean breeze does not exist. That has been replaced by choking car smog and dust from the lack of adequate landscaping that plagues this shitty. Every chance these people get to chop down a tree they replace it with a palm twig. When the winds pickup you can barely see a mile due to all the dust and debris that flies around.
Also, it is very Latin (3rd. worldish) to throw trash out the window of you car when you're driving so don't expect to see clean streets or clean highways. The highways are littered with furniture, tires, typewriters...but that's just what falls off their moving trucks. These people throw anything and everything out their car windows as if public roads are just one huge trash can.
Downtown Miami is nothing more than a ghost town. There is nothing there but disgusting stores selling crap. It is dark, filthy and you might as well walk around wearing a hard hat because buildings are crumbling.
South Beach is a dump! When all the gays moved out the Latin ghetto moved in and the city went to the shits. South Beach has lost every ounce of appeal and glamour the gays brought. It's just one huge tourist trap where trashy celebs and the rich-and-flighty hang out to get their latest drug fix.
I am all for replacing the city's slogan with: Miami - Not for the Decent at Heart!
...to be continued
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MIAMI
Forget Will Smith's 1998 hit "Miami", forget Miami Vice and forget those glossy images of Miami Beach......
In reality, there are 2 versions of Miami: there's the Miami you see on TV, which is mostly Miami Beach, then there's the rest of Miami - a bland, urban landscape littered with apartment buildings that look like cheap motels, gas stations, tacky strip malls, Publix supermarkets (Publix are the only real chain here), endless fast food restaurants, warehouses and cheap looking business parks. The version of Miami you don't see on the TV is version 2 (an urban wasteland), where poverty, crime and inequality are rife and where the streets are literally choked with traffic. If you're poor, you'll live in a shack or an efficiency, or if you're lucky, you'll live in one of those apartment buildings that look like cheap motels with tiny windows and no view. There is no middle class here anymore, but if you have a little money, you'll probably have paid over $400k for a box-like house, somewhere in the depths of Kendall or Homestead on SW 2,005,442 Street and 1,245,667 Ave, dealing with a 4 hour commute every day.
You're led to believe that Miami is some sort of tropical paradise, full of beautiful beaches, great nightlife, great women and that Miami is simply bubbling with culture. Sure, it has palm trees and the nightlife is great, if you're prepared to shell out well over $200 to go to one of the clubs on South Beach. Miami is no paradise though - in fact, it's about as far from being a "paradise" as you can get. You'd think that with the tropical climate, people would have beautiful and lush gardens, but in reality, people here tear down trees and plants and replace them with asphalt and concrete. Miami is no paradise - it has become a third world banana republic that broke away from the United States a long time ago. Miami is Northern South America.
Miami is a city with some of the worst traffic in North America. The roads here are inadequate, sub standard and generally f**ked up. Construction here takes 1,000 times longer than it does in the rest of the United States. Drivers here are amongst the rudest in the country. Not only are the drivers here rude, but they're downright reckless too. They drive like maniacs in their Ford F150s, Dodge Rams or Honda Civics, with reggaeton blasting. This is a city with far too many "hit and run" type accidents - in other words, not only will they run you over, but they'll drive off, because that's what cowardly ghetto uninsured bastards do. But you only have to look at how easy the driving test is here and how they hand out licenses to anyone, even non-legal aliens who probably have no concept of what an expressway is. You don't even need to speak/read English to get a license. Reason why they can't understand what a Yield sign means. Road rules are as foreign to Miamians as savage Miamians are to civilized Americans.
For a metropolitan area of well over 5 million people, public transportation here is nothing short of a joke. You have one MetroRail line going north to south and it doesn't even serve anywhere west of the airport (where the bulk of the population of Dade County live). You're forced to use your car because there's no other choice, unless you just so happen to live close to the Metro Rail, or can afford one of those overly priced condos in Brickell (south of Downtown on US-1).
Customer service in general here is far worse than ANYWHERE in the United States and there's a general lack of quality and efficiency here that commonplace in the rest of this great country. Many people in this city are simply out to rip you of, including mechanics, doctors, vets and dentists. During the 4 years that I've lived here, I have never encountered so many shady so-called health professionals as I have here in Miami. As for customer service, forget it, unless you speak fluent ghetto-Spanish. It's got to the point where I drive up to West Palm Beach (a good 2 hour drive) in order to get good customer service (West Palm Beach feels like part of the United States, unlike Miami-Dade).
As for Miami being paradise, I suggest that if you're staying in Miami Beach, take a drive across the causeway and you'll stumble upon the "urban wasteland" that I despise so much. There is truly nothing here - nothing in terms of parks, museums or infrastructure. Take a drive through Hialeah, Opa Locka, anywhere "NW" or Overtown and you'll feel like you're either in a slum part of Tijuana, a run down part of Kingston, Jamaica or a miscellaneous Latin American hell-hole.
Don't get me started on Downtown Miami either - the place is a mess. You'd think that for such an "important" city, it'd have at least a decent-looking Downtown. Miami's Downtown looks like something out of a zombie movie - deserted after 7pm, full of beggars and vagrants and downright dangerous. There's no real retail, other than a Macy's and hundreds of cheap electrical and luggage stores run by shady people. I don't blame the homeless for being there - they have nowhere else to. Housing here is completely unaffordable, at best, because Miami is a city for the rich.
The new condo buildings here are nothing short of a disgrace. They are poorly designed, bland and they all look the same as the next condo. It's sad that this city's skyline will be shaped by bland condo buildings for decades to come - condo buildings that may not even sell as the condo boom will surely go bust at some point. It seems that this city builds and builds and builds without giving thought to investing in transport infrastructure or helping its real citizens that are the bread and butter of its economy. All the "boom' is doing is driving up the cost of housing even further, flooding the market
with housing stock that it doesn't need, when it really needs affordable housing stock.
Let's take a realistic look at Miami's often hyped skyline. The skyline looks pretty at times (especially at night), but there are basically just two tall office buildings Downtown (one is extremely ugly, i.e. the Bank Of America Tower). You have the Four Seasons Tower in Brickell, but that's just a plain old "box". The rest of the skyline is littered with condominiums that are all carbon copies of the next condominium - how interesting, huh?
You have a genuine lack of zoning in Miami, hence the fact that despite having a (run down) Downtown district, there is no real commercial center and business are spread out randomly across the city, which probably doesn't help the traffic problem.
An article on [www.local10.com stated that more people are fleeing South Florida than are coming here and that's an indication of how fed up people are with this place and it's unjustly high cost of living. This is a city where incomes are amongst the lowest in the United States while more of your salary will go on housing (rent or mortgage payments) than anywhere else in the country. I wouldn't mind such a high cost of living if I was living in Manhattan, LA, Paris or London but not in Miami - an overbuilt swamp town at the ass-end of Florida. In reality, Miami is no more "special" than anywhere else in Florida, i.e. Jacksonville, Tampa and Orlando and to be honest, I'd rather live in any of those cities because at least I'd get my money's worth.
The climate is what brings a lot of people here, but the climate sucks. For six months of the year, it rains more than it rains in Seattle. You have the risk of being hit by a hurricane too and this place has flooded more times than I care to remember. If so much as a tropical storm hits, it renders thousands of people without power for sometimes as long as 5 weeks. If a hurricane hits, forget it - the weak-ass power grid just crumbles. Then you have the constant humidity and the many bugs that are only too eager to bite.
Corruption is rife here, but the people seem to continue to vote for the same inadequate, corrupt politicians. This is a city where millions of dollars assigned to affordable housing projects mysteriously "disappears". This is a city where greedy developers line the pockets of politicians to get their projects approved. This is a city where third world mentality prevails, including corruption (something you'd be used to in a country like Colombia, but not in the United States).
The biggest problem with Miami though is the people. I can honestly say that I have NEVER seen such a high percentage of complete and utter scumbags of the worst kind contained in one metropolitan area. Miami has a prevailing "ghetto" attitude, whether rich or poor. Many people here not only can't speak English, but many refuse to speak English and refuse to assimilate into mainstream American society. I have found the majority of people in Miami to be shallow, superficial (even more so than Los Angeles), loud, obnoxious, rude and manipulative. This city is full of liars, cheats and thieves of the lowest form - thieves who will steal bottled water from an old lady (my mother in law, for instance). The Latin races here generally hate one another, i.e. Cubans hate Puerto Ricans, Puerto Ricans hate Cubans, Cubans hate Nicaraguans, etc, etc, etc. Not only that, but I find many Latinos here to be extremely racist towards black people. I've mentioned the drivers here, but I'll mention them again - they suck. I've experienced a lot of road rage here first hand and I see absolutely horrible and reckless driving on a daily basis on my commute to work. At work, there is no professionalism and the ghetto culture has well and truly infested the workplace. Most jobs advertised here require you to be bilingual (Spanish), which is a joke considering that this is the United States. Some of the Latinos here take pride in the fact that they've driven the "gringos' away. Many think that Americans are dull and boring and somehow inferior to them. However, many of the people are no different from your average piece of trailer trash; just replace country music with reggaeton and Budweiser with Presidente. People here in general are extremely uneducated and boy, it shows! Most of the morons here have probably never even read a book and probably never will, unless Daddy Yankee releases an autobiography with lots of pretty pictures in it. In short, Miami is just one big sprawling ghetto, filled with people that are quite simply the lowest of the low. Humanity doesn't exist here - you could be dying in the street and no one would stop to help you. Most people here don't have money, but they love to pretend that they do, driving expensive cars, living it large on South Beach, while still living with their parents and countless other family members in a two bedroom apartment in Hialeah. I honestly don't know what's worse here - the rich, or the wannabe rich. People here are all about "me, me, me", hence the fact that I often call this place "MiaME".
As for solutions to solve Miami's problems - well, let's just say that I am open to other people's opinions here. To solve the problems in Miami, you'd probably have to kick out 80% of the population and replace them with good, honest, educated and hard working Americans. In all seriousness, a good start would be investing heavily in transport infrastructure, affordable housing projects and creating parks and other recreational areas. I would also clamp down on reckless drivers and I'd introduce a mandatory life sentence for causing death by "hit and run". I would install speed cameras on major highways and traffic cameras on major intersections. I would make English MANDATORY and I would not allow employers to advertise jobs with "bilingual" as a requirement, unless it's a multi-national firm. I would give companies financial incentives to relocate Downtown and speaking of Downtown Miami, I'd encourage development there in terms of retail malls, cinemas and department stores. Unfortunately, the "me me me" attitude prevails here as does the ghetto attitude, so I don't see things improving anytime soon.
I know that many will attack me for these opinions on such a highly regarded place, but I don't care. I live here and work here and I write this based on not only my opinion, but the opinion of many others who have lived here all their life and hate Miami with a passion. Sure, this is a great "party city", but it's not such a great place to live for many people here who are struggling with the high (and ever increasing) cost of living. To me, Miami seems like it's rotten to the core and maybe even beyond repair. Miami has no soul or vibe - it's just a big over-sized ghetto wasteland / South Florida swamp town, filled with America's least desirable people.
Someone posted this on Craig's List. They're so right!
Things I hate about Miami / South Florida
Reply to: pers-269277107@craigslist.org
subject=Things I hate about Miami
Date: 2007-01-27, 2:33PM EST
These are not in any particular order:
Things I hate about Miami:
- Women and their little shit lapdogs - Please, dont bring your fucking dog into the grocery store! I saw one of those little pieces of shit piss all over the floor at Publix last week. WE BUY OUR FUCKING FOOD THERE! If you want something to baby, HAVE A FUCKING BABY YOU SHALLOW BITCHES!! Your dogs are ugly, they look like hairy rats. You dont need to bring your dog EVERYWHERE you go. Its a living animal - not a fashion accessory.
- People cant drive in Miami - They have no concept of the left lane - the left lane if for faster traffic and for passing - not for Jose and Maria to putt along at 55 mph while on I-95 in their shitty 1993 Hyundai.
- City/county government - I have never seen so much damn beaurocracy in my life! God help you if you want to get a permit to do anything! God help you if you need to do anything cause its just not gonna happen. If there is a pothole 4 ft wide, it takes the city/county 4 months to fix. Last week, they were repaving the street my office is on. They didnt warn anyone or put up "No Parking" signs they just worked around the parked cars. City/County government here in Miami reminds me of those monster or career builder commercials with the monkeys in the office. Maybe it has something to do with this city being run by the Cubans. Detroit has better city services than Miami - thats sad.
- People cant park in Miami - I have a brand new car and within the last 2 months, two morons have hit my car while parallel parking and both took off without leaving a note. I hope their families die in a horrible fire.
- The Cubans - I have never met a ruder, most obnoxious group of people in my life. Did i happen to mention how fucking stupid and lazy they are? This is not Cuba, we work for a living here. Also, you arent fooling anyone with all that (fake) gold that you wear - we all know you are poor as fuck. Cubans make me miss the Mexicans back home - at least Mexicans are hardworking, decent people. The Cubans would stab their own mother in the back for a dollar or a bag of blow.
- The rest of the spics - WE ARE IN THE USA - SPEAK ENGLISH!! There is a lady that works in the convience store in my building that speaks spanish to everyone! Im white, about as white as they come, i dont speak spanish, so speak to me in english. Go back to Columbia if you want to speak spanish.
- The hoochie mama, Hialeah girls - Please put away the sharpie and stop painting on your eyebrows. Please stop talking like you are some hoodrat/Puerto Rican thug - you live in the fucking suburbs. Please stop putting rims on your 1998 Pontiac Sunfire. Please stop reproducing.
- The Jews - I never hated the jews until i moved to Miami. Now i see just how sleazy they actually are. They are tighter than the fucking wiseguy degos i grew up with. They wont marry/date someone unless they are jewish. If you are trying to do business with them, you have to watch out cause they will rip you off. They think the entire world owes them something. And if you argue with them about shady shit that Israel pulls, they act as if you just raped their mother. If you love Israel so much - PLEASE go live there. The Israelis are just as bad, if not worse, than the Palestinians. You stole their land and you expect these people to take that shit lying down?
- the douchebags - This town is filled with them. Im talking about the dipshits that drive around in their BMWs, Audis, etc then double parking in front of starbucks. These are the same dipshits that wear those bluetooth headsets EVERYWHERE they go! These are the same tools that think wearing $300 jeans will somehow make them cool. Most of these guys are mortgaged up the ass and are barely making payments. my best friend here is a financial advisor to many of these douchebags - i know how much debt they actually have. About 70% of men in Miami in their 20's and 30's are douchebags. Please take off the dego tees and pink shirts - you look like a douchebag.
- the Haitians - Just like the Cubans, they brought their 3rd world country ways here. They rob, steal, and kill at will. Please put down the AK and stop shooting up little kids birthday parties. They drive slower than shit. I wouldnt trust a haitian with anything and i wouldnt hire a Haitian - they are almost as lazy as the Cubans.
- the idiots on bikes in South Beach - GET OFF THE FUCKING SIDEWALK AND RIDE YOUR BIKE WITH TRAFFIC, NOT AGAINST IT!!!
- the idiots with scooters in South Beach - There is no need to take up an entire parking space with your shitty scooter. Everytime i see a scooter taking up an entire space, i spit on your seat or your grips. Park at the end of the line of cars with the rest of the scooters, dont take up an entire space. Next time you sit on your scooter and feel something wet on your ass or on your hands, thats my spit. Last night, i noticed one of you morons took up an TWO spaces with one of your scooters (yes, it is possible.) Oh, the joy i felt this morning when i came out and saw that someone knocked down your shitty scooter and took one of the spaces. Didnt anyone tell these fags that scooters are like fat chicks? They are fun to ride till your friends see you on one.
- The cops in South Florida - did someone tell these assholes that this isnt Nazi Germany? How come they always want to search my car? Dont go more than 3 or 4 mph in Aventura or Sunny Isles, or else the pigs (with nothing better to do) will give you a ticket. They recruit these assholes right out of the military.
- the women - I have never met such a snotty bunch of women that here in Miami. Most think that their shit doesnt stink. Most are shallow bitches that dont know a thing about real life. Most think they are some sort of "princess" and even put bumper stickers on their cars that say "princess." What are they the "princess" of? Their subdivision in Kendall? Is their daddy the King of "Shady Palms of Kendall?" 80% of the women in Miami couldnt tell you who the Vice President of the United States is, but they can tell you who Paris Hilton is dating!
- the sports fans - I have never seen so many fairweather fans in my life and i have lived all over this country. The Heat just won a championship, yet when you go to the games or even watch them on TV, the place is only about 60-70% full. The games are sold out, but people dont go. I went to the first preseason game this year and the place was maybe 50% full. When the Marlins were playing the Cubs in the NLCS in 2003, there were more Cub fans than Marlin fans there. And whats with all these people with Miami Hurricanes stuff all over their car, but then they have a Miami-Dade Community College parking pass on the back bumper of their car?
- the airport - whomever designed this thing should be dragged out in the street and shot like a dog.
- Downtown Miami - I have a friend that works in the zoning department. When he moved here, he was amazed at the lack of planning. The governemnt catered to these developers and didnt put much thought into any of the zoning. There is no commercial space and there is no reason to go downtown. I feel bad (not really) for the people that actually plan to move into these new buildings. There are no grocery stores, no restaurants, no shopping, and no reason to go downtown. Let the Marlins build a stadium downtown so people actually have a reason to go there. Maybe stores, restaurants, shopping, etc will follow. Dont build the stadium in Hialeah (they are just catering to the Hialeah/Cuban Mafia that runs this city) or else nobody will go.
- the food and restuarants - I am a bit of a foodie. I travel all over this world and some of my very good friends are chefs or restaurant owners elsewhere. I grew up in my fathers restaurant, so I think i can be considered a bit of an expert. The food here is bland, with no creativity. The service is horrible, even in supposed "fine dining" restaurants here. There are no small diners where you can grab a quick, cheap breakfast. there are no good sandwich places. The pizza here tastes like cardboard. Anyone that thinks otherwise doesnt know shit about food. Yes, there are some exceptions, but they are extremely rare and usually dont last long. Its almost as if people here like bland food and poor service, or maybe they are just too damn ignorant to tell the difference.
- lack of arts/entertainment - Its sad when art events like Art Basil become more of a sideshow than an actual art event. Its more about being seen and corporate sponsors. People care more about celebrities than the actual art. There are no good theaters, no good art galleries, and no quality art events. There are hardly any good concert venues for live music. People here are just too damn shallow.
- the ignorance / shallowness - i think i touched on this throughout this post, but it still needs to be said. I have never met so many shallow/ignorant people in my life. People here just dont care about thing that they should care about. Its all about the "bling bling" and what kind of clothes you wear. It doesnt suprise me that Florida is the reason George Bush is our President - anyone with half a brain knew he was unqualified back in 2000. Most people dont have any understanding of reality or the outside world. I guess ignorance is bliss.
