The State of.... South Florida??

[AlphaSigOU]

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.

[PhiGam]

The people in South Florida do seem to be very rude to me (for the most part.) They're a bunch of transplanted New Yorkers who view the rest of Florida as "dumb rednecks."

[PANTHERTEKE]

Originally Posted by PhiGam

The people in South Florida do seem to be very rude to me (for the most part.) They're a bunch of transplanted New Yorkers who view the rest of Florida as "dumb rednecks."

Yeah, they are (we are?) more rude than in other parts of Florida. I'm always kind of surprised at how polite and nice people are whenever I visit Naples or Orlando or Tampa, etc; and kind of wish people in South Florida were like that.

But whatever, I can only assume how different it is for someone who was raised outside of S.Fla to live here vs those of us that grew up here.

I'm used to going into restaurants and not being treated politely, the same way I'm used to not really talking to store attendants and being freaked out when people are so nice lol.

I don't know why it's like that, but it is. I don't think, however, that it's because of all the NY transplants; I've heard a lot of people who visit NY come back and say how they don't deserve that "rude people" stereotype. Either way I don't blame people from "outside" not liking the way South Floridians are- I have a lot of complaints myself... Especially with the way people drive here. But thats a whoooooole 'nother story.

[GooniePDT49]

Originally Posted by PANTHERTEKE

Well I believe it hasn't been posted here yet.

A few mayors in Broward cities want to split Florida into 2 states.

Its been getting some attention in the media down here lately and I though I'd share .. And actually, 54% of the people who took a poll in this article online thought it was a good idea.

Article can be read here

Thats not a big deal at all. For example, TX has in its state charter that it can break into 5 states if it wants to. The worst that could happen is that electoral votes and districts will change and a new state capital with a govt will be instituted.