[cowboyway]

Call Rush quickly, tell him keep the cat inside

He's got no worries on West Palm Beach.

I, on the other hand, live 5 miles from the Everglades National Park entrance.

We've got gators, crocks, monitor lizards, pythons, border jumpers, gang bangers and various other vermin that are reproducing uncontrollably.

[IrishMike]

Sympathies -
I lived in Homestead for 2 1/2 years in the mid 80’s, USAF.
Had all you describe.

[Clemenza]

I used to live near Doral country club (west of Miami Airport). I remember my colleagues telling me that there was nothing worth visiting between the Falls Mall and Key Largo. After Andrew, that whole area became a no mans land, an odd mixture of Mexican strawberry pickers, leftover rednecks, and the oddball treehugger, the latter usually employed at Everglades National Park.

I don't know about now, but 5-10 years ago you experienced greater culture shock coming from going south of 114th Street then you did when crossing the Broward line. South Dade seemed like a strange place back then.