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Originally Posted by MsDGP007
LOL...Wow. I lived in Daytona Beach for 1 and 1/2 years and Miami for six (well I was split between Miramar...which is technically in Broward and North Miami Beach). I came up to Southwestern Pennsylvania in Dec. Whew! Am I glad I made it out boy!  |
Not quite... The 'Not Much Better' city limits generally extend east of I-95 in northern Miami-Dade County from about 151st Street to the county line at 215th Street. Miramar is entirely within Broward County; its southern border is the Miami-Dade/Broward county line at NW 215th Street/SW 41st Ave. Carol City (or whatever the new independent city name is now) occupies the Miami-Dade side south of the county line to about Red Road (NW 57th Ave).
I grew up in both Hialeah and North Miami (GO PIONEERS!); at the time I was in high school in North Miami, the neighborhood and consequently the school population was predominantly white and Jewish; we had bagel sales, not bake sales.
Many Yiddish slang words still pepper my conversation from time to time. (And I'm a lapsed Roman Catholic.)
I also lived in Miramar off Douglas Road; the balcony of our condo overlooked the 8th green and 9th tee of the Miramar golf course.
Fast forward about 10 years later and I could already see the demographics changing to a largely Haitian population. Much of western and southwestern Miami-Dade County was 'La Saguecera' (a Spanish phonetic corruption of 'southwest'), where rapid-fire Cuban-accented Spanish is the lingua franca. I'm fluent in both English and Spanish (though I speak it with a Venezuelan accent); but it takes me a second or two to shift gears and think and speak in Spanish whenever someone speaks to me in Spanish. When I start looking lost, they usually speak a little slower.
I haven't been back to South Florida except to visit or attend class reunions in over 25 years. I'm now a 'naturalized' citizen of the Republic of Texas.
I gotta agree; Miami's and South Florida's no longer for me. If I decide to return to Florida permanently it's probably around the Space Coast or northeast Florida area by St. Augustine.
; selfishness is raised to an artform there; oh and did I mention that no one is happy? True people have a reason to complain...the money they make does not mate up well with the exploding costs of living. But that's because their bosses (also South Floridians most of the time) can give two $H!+s about you really. They'll just find someone else to do what you do.
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