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Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by Crake »

fchollet wrote: post #93
leif wrote: post #63

It often happens that someone outside new york talks about the amaaaazing food in their city. I used to laugh, or correct them. Nowadays I just feel pity. Nothing compares to the food of new york city. Absolutely nothing. Don't even fucking try. "I live within walking distance of two zagat top 10 rated restaurants." There are sixty restaurants within walking distance of my apartment and they're all better than anythi…

I lived in NYC for a year, working right next to Hell's Kitchen. While the food is great, it's certainly not "incomparable". Paris has better restaurants. Tokyo has better restaurants (cheaper too in that case). Even San Francisco has comparable food standards. You end up sounding just like so many New-Yorkers --annoying and conceited. But no, living there doesn't make you special. It's just a big city, and not the o…

I think once you're hitting the level of "one of the biggest cities in the world" there's almost guaranteed going to be really awesome cuisine. I thought Paris had really great food when I was there, I'm sure Tokyo's got delicious offerings as well (I love Japanese food, mmm).

I just moved to NYC, though, and the food options here are incomparable to anywhere else in the US I've been. (Note: I haven't been to San Francisco, and while I'm sure it has good food too, NYC's excellent transit system means I have wider access to places.)

I'm continuously surprised by how CHEAP things are, too! Yesterday I paid $1.50 for a box of strawberries, $0.75 for some cherry tomatoes, and $2 for a sizeable package of freshly chopped and peeled kiwis. (In the midwest, I'd pay almost that much just for the strawberries.) To top it off, I had the best lamb and rice meal I've ever had...for $5 from a halal food cart. (I actually spent an hour today looking for the cart again, I liked it THAT much, but it was nowhere to be found. I will look again tomorrow!!)

Of course, I still haven't found anywhere that sells a gallon of milk for less than $4, but I'm going to keep searching. I kind of enjoy exploring places and mentally marking down which place has the cheapest offering of a certain thing.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by stretchwithme »

girvo wrote: post #116
moron4hire wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having once lived in Florida, there is a greater culture of AC in the far south than in the far north. I have been more uncomfortable during the summer in Connecticut than I ever was in Florida. That said, I think there is a mindset to enjoying the heat as well. You should probably not expect to go hiking through the woods in the summer in Florida. It's just not pleasant to be in such places in such humidity with suc…

Sounds similar to the Melbourne vs Gold Coast divide here in Australia. I grew up on the Gold Coast. I love sand. :)

And Florida calls it the Gold Coast too.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_(Florida)

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by Crake »

leif wrote: post #63

It often happens that someone outside new york talks about the amaaaazing food in their city. I used to laugh, or correct them. Nowadays I just feel pity. Nothing compares to the food of new york city. Absolutely nothing. Don't even fucking try. "I live within walking distance of two zagat top 10 rated restaurants." There are sixty restaurants within walking distance of my apartment and they're all better than anythi…

Yeah, Miami can't hold a candle to NYC food. NYC is great because it's just so DENSE. Very little time required to get somewhere awesome, and what travel time you have you can spend reading or whatever.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by Crake »

voltagex_ wrote: post #68
leif wrote: post #63

It often happens that someone outside new york talks about the amaaaazing food in their city. I used to laugh, or correct them. Nowadays I just feel pity. Nothing compares to the food of new york city. Absolutely nothing. Don't even fucking try. "I live within walking distance of two zagat top 10 rated restaurants." There are sixty restaurants within walking distance of my apartment and they're all better than anythi…

If I hadn't just been to NY recently this comment would have sounded really conceited. For everyone wondering, if you get a chance to go to NYC just do it. Even if you think you hate big cities, do it. And get out of my way. [1] 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LmPBPWHJu4&noredirect=1

I'm always happy to have friends visit me here. I'm from the midwest, and most of my friends there have never been to NYC. It blows their minds, every time.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by grogenaut »

potatolicious wrote: post #115
grogenaut wrote: post #73

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your bbq and pizza sucks. seriously, it does. your "immigrant" food however is quite good.

> "your "immigrant" food however is quite good" As an immigrant I'm struggling to find a way to parse that sentence that isn't at least slightly derogatory. Isn't pizza an "immigrant" food? Or General Tso's chicken? California rolls? In the context of being in the USA, wouldn't French food be "immigrant food"? I'm not trying to be purposely obtuse - but like the word "ethnic food" I can't see any reasonable definitio…

Immigrant food is all of the food that isn't already americanized. To me it's a good thing. Influx of new stuff. I'm all for the new tastes. And yes all of that is and yet it's now 'murican as general cho's chicken.

OIt's all a lookout for foods I've never seen before as well as getting better and better at the giant melting pot of food we already love.

I'm not trying to be a jerk but and I know it feels bad to stay "Immigrant food" but that's what it is. New food new people. I love it.

Where are the martians. I want martian nachos.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by eigenvector »

DanBlake wrote: post #109
mp3tricord wrote: post #61

Can someone explain to my why its an advantage to live in a state with zero income tax? Does it really matter how the state makes its money. If it does not come from your paycheck directly they get it other ways. For instance in Florida you pay ~2% property tax on your assessed value and in california you pay ~1% on your purchased value. If you bought property at 500k and its appreciated to 1 million in CA you pay 5k…

The advantage is for high income people, of course. If you make alot of money (or have alot of retirement income coming in) florida kicks ass. As a simple example: If you make 1 million a year and live in a 2 million dollar house. Property tax in Cali : 20k Income tax in Cali : ~65k Property tax in FL : 40k Income tax in FL: Zero So in this example, you are 100% better off being in florida.

Do you know a lot of people who earn $1 million/year and live in a $2 million house? A 2:1 home value:income ratio is extremely low.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by grogenaut »

leif wrote: post #95
grogenaut wrote: post #84

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No really, it was a greasy pile of shit. - You win no favors with the trump and SP on that - http://www.restaurantpi.com/ is good but it's not the best. Obama loves it and pissed of chicago for it though - Seriously though, pizza is a regional thing. I'm not going to convince you that your pizza is shit no matter how crap the ingredients and the velveta topping are. You're not going to convince a CPK fan that their p…

No, really, you just missed the good pizza here. The offer stands, come back here, email me, and I will treat you to good pizza.

Okay. I can't really pass that up. Let me know when you're in certain parts of the US, STL, or SEA and I'll let you know what you should look for.

Threat of good food taken.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by tdfx »

exue wrote: post #129
JDDunn9 wrote: post #118

I recently moved to Orlando from Hawaii for the cost benefits. Pros: - Florida was the hit the hardest by the housing collapse, so it's like houses are having a 50% off sale. - Lots to do. Many cities here like Orlando and Miami were built on tourism, so there's a lot of interesting things to do compared with cities built for business as usual. - Decent beaches and nice weather in season. Cons: - The state government…

Interesting note on politics - always got the impression that Florida was the 'center-of-road swing state' from elections. Is it different on the ground/in social life?

It's barely fair to even refer to Florida as a singular place, because South Florida and "The Rest of Florida" are two different cultures. South Florida is the nice beaches, upscale stuff, and the progressive, educated, imported population. The "Rest of Florida" has small slivers of tourist spots along the coast but for the most part resembles any other southern state, and tends to be quite red politically.

Re: Why I moved to Miami

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Post by Crake »

AJ007 wrote: post #32
yeukhon wrote: post #10

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If 10 years is true, no one would be living there right now. People will already be evacuating. The number is probably around 30-50 years. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/29/climate-n...

SF could have a devastating earthquake at any moment and people are still there. Down in LA someone is trying to build a skyscraper on an active fault line: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hollywood-fault-mill... A good portion of Manhattan will be under water if sea levels rise as well. Then we all know what happened to New Orleans. People seem to enjoy evacuating after the fact, not before.

I've looked at the projections, and Manhattan's not nearly as screwed as Miami. Our foundation is mostly rock, I think, and a lot of this island has a relatively high elevation (as anyone who has walked up the giant hill to CCNY would happily tell you). Of course, the financial district will probably be toast, but things will just get pushed further into the bronx/inwood areas as is already happening now due to rent prices. I don't think anyone will care if we have to abandon Staten Island...

Miami, on the other hand, is mostly flat and is sitting on a porous foundation, in addition to being right next to the everglades. There was a really interesting article recently on it:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-mi...

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