Miami? Hell, why didn't you say so... that explains everything. Does growing up in Miami give you Florida-New York double citizenship?
LOL. Well, maybe now you could say that, but when I was growing up there(40's 50's) they used to board up all the hotels on the Beach because it was too hot down there in the summer(no air-conditioning then) and all the New Yawkers went home. Mostly crackers them days. During the winter months the NY plates on cars outnumbered the Fla. plates about 2-1. It was a nice place to live most of the year, back then. Not so now, sadly. As I said before, my mom always said that air-condtioning was the worst thing that ever happened to So. Fla. I agree.