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Ask HN: How's the Miami Scene?

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Re: Ask HN: How's the Miami Scene?

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I lived here 3 years without a car. South Beach is a great walkable beach town. For anything further I used: Zipcar ( day), Lyft/Uber (<1 hour). I only bought a car during the early stages of the pandemic, rideshare and rentals basically shutdown and leased cars were being firesaled.

Interesting. That's pretty good chunk of time to be car free. Are the rents expensive in South Beach? My mental image of it is a wealthy place.

South of Fifth (SoFi) and north of 17th are where the pricier condos exist. The Flamingo Park neighborhood are older (1920s) bungalows and apartments. This is the neighborhood where most of the families, retires, and service workers live. So while I had a few friends that lived in $5000/mo Portofino, I making substantially less, lived in a cute walk up with a great parking a block away and my choice of ventanas nearby.

Re: Ask HN: How's the Miami Scene?

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Not _south_ Florida though, which is the only place worth vacationing to if you care about beach life. Honestly, though, if you care about beach life, living in Georgia doesn't make sense anyway. If you don't care about beach life, you might as well just live anywhere and fly to Florida for your two weeks a year or whatever.

Don't sleep on Jacksonville. ;) Atlantic Beach and the area around (especially during July 4th) is pretty sweet.

Times like July 4th are the worst to be at the beach. Super crowded, usually very very hot, rentals cost a fortune, etc.

Imo "beach life" is about how things are when it's not a holiday.

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