I’ve got a snow bird location off of 71st & Collins in an older high rise I bought during the crash. We go there when we can and rent it out during the Winter/Spring months.
I’m not from Miami originally, but the wife is. She went to Coral Gables—blonde Cuban.
Over the past few years, I’ve noticed the character of this area change for the worse (not that it’s ever been great).
It’s literally a nightly occurance for skinny-dippers to dive in right in front of our building—we avoid the beach like the plague at night. Last year there were several idiot couples arrested for indecent exposure on the beach around the area. Queers love to flaunt their love in front of what used to be a semi-family friendly beach all the damn time. The closer you get to S Beach, the worse it gets. A few years back, several porn films were made in bright daylight on the beach further down from us and arrests were made. I never followed up on what happened. It gets old and I’m sick of it to be frank.
Blacks and Hialeah thugs make S Beach a damn 3rd world paradise.
I’ve got kids under 5, I don’t want or need them seeing this stuff yet.
Point taken
Miami is now a porn producing area like The Valley
We avoid Ocean Drive area
The Sagamore is as far south as we go to stay
We do the beach in front of the hotels
Those Deco hotels are very nice and usually we’ll run
We don’t club but we might do the hotel bar
The bar at the W is interesting
We do Lincoln road outdoor eating and tacky shopping
Espanola Way eats
That little Italian joint on Alton by the canal
Joes occasionally it’s kinda touristy
South pointe stuff is nice overlooking govt cut a friend of mine lives there but very pricey
When I was there 88-94 the action was the Grove
Now the Grove at night is iffy
We lived on Brickell and Sorolla in Gables and down old Cutler by the boots
I went to Miami beach then for Joes Wolfies Woodys or cafe de arts
South beach was still mostly dilapidated
For beach I went to key Biscayne or too my gofast to little islands south of the stilts
But man the issue today as much as the rot of thug culture is the dade population and traffic
40% increase in pop
And traffic is horrible now like Atlanta
But we still like the place and we have friends there and lauderdale
It’s like New Orleans you just look on the bright side
I’m fluent in Spanish and portugese and spent 17 years much further south so I reimmerse easy
Miami and Dallas and Seaside are my wife’s fav places