Actually, South Florida attracts many of the wealthier immigrants in the nation. It aint native born Americans who are paying $500k-over one million for the houses in Coral Gables and Weston. When I lived in Miami (99-02), wealthy Colombians and Venezuealans were buying up property like crazy.
I wonder HOW many of those Colombians and Venezuelans GOT so wealthy?
Creative chemical entrepeneurs possibly?