Nashville, my friends. No state income tax in Tennessee either. One of the fastest growing cities and the center of health care services in the US, with HCIT not far behind.
Why I moved to Miami
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Re: Why I moved to Miami
#302If anyone is interested in joining our growing bitcoin group in Miami, you can join us here https://www.facebook.com/groups/MiamiInternationalBitcoin/
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San Francisco is a magnet for talented, ambitious, creative, brilliant, audacious people. It's hard to argue against this, and by accepting that as true, you must also accept the clear corollary - that there are proportionally more of those extraordinary people in San Francisco and fewer in Miami. And yes, that makes huge difference. While it may not be politically correct to say that one city is "dumber, less creati…
You can frame it any way you want, especially with vague terms like "talented, ambitious and creative". Art Basel is a world renowned event that surely involves tons of talent, ambition and creativity. Strange that it's in Miami and not in San Francisco. Another true statement is that San Francisco is a magnet for homeless drug addicts. It turns out there are a lot of people in both places and you can find really goo…
All true. I didn't say there were no interesting people in Miami, only that the density is so much higher in San Francisco.
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Your building is amazing.. How's the walkability compared to someplace like NY or Boston?
It's different. Viscayne is located downtown Miami which lacks the restaurants / culture/ yuppy-ness of places like Brickell and Midtown. There is a small outlet mall type thing at Bayfront park -- but the shops and restaurants there overwhelming cater to the bus loads of cruise-ship tourists there for a day. Downtown is a ghost-town during the weekend, as most places are closed. Bayfront park itself is a nice walk,…
I agree it's less "cultured" but we still have cool venues and places to eat, example: http://www.govindasgardensmiami.com/ and http://thevagabondmiami.com/ that's really close to my building.
Downtown is not a ghost-town during the weekend... Are you serious? Basslights is going on right now in front of my building you can hear Bassnectar soundchecking haha http://www.bassnectar.net/wp-content/uploads/BASSLIGHTS2013-... And last monday we had Sigur Ros. It's all happening in the park (and other things like free yoga classes or other things I'm not into).
Or you could take the metro mover which is free (and, sadly, underused) that takes you to Brickell or north Downtown.
About Wynwood, you can avoid Overtown, using N Miami Ave or US1. My friend (who wrote this article) bikes from Midtown to Brickell a couple of times a week during the day and night.
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When you head to Raleigh, be sure to stop by Royal India on Capital Blvd. It's Indian, not Pakistani, but they excellent dishes including a saag gosht.
I think Raleigh is the best bang for the buck for tech, food, drink, and residence anywhere in the U.S. Downtown Raleigh has art festivals, music festivals (Hopscotch, Wide Open Bluegrass), Red Hat amphitheater, and Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts (including Meymandi Concert Hall, Fletcher Opera Theater, Kennedy Theater, Memorial Auditorium), etc. There are a lot of great restaurants within walking distanc…
Used to live there. Now live in SF. Could never live in Raleigh again and I only go to visit family. It's entirely too car focused and the tech community is trivial in size compared to SF. The only active meetup group I came across while visiting recently with solid engineers was the Ruby Brigade. However with Relevance in Durham, I imagine there is a solid Clojure community in the area as well.
If you don't mind cars, the quality of live if pretty great, however it kills me that it is just far enough from the mountains and the beaches for either to be convenient. Freshwater lakes aren't too far, but too much of those nearby are in the watershed supplying water to the area so recreational usage is highly restricted.
Re: Why I moved to Miami
#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
San Francisco is a magnet for talented, ambitious, creative, brilliant, audacious people. It's hard to argue against this, and by accepting that as true, you must also accept the clear corollary - that there are proportionally more of those extraordinary people in San Francisco and fewer in Miami. And yes, that makes huge difference. While it may not be politically correct to say that one city is "dumber, less creati…
If that's how you judge a person's worth I'm guessing Miami's glad not to have you.
There's nothing wrong with not being ambitious. Some day I may not be. Until then, I'd rather be around people who are.
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#307I was born and raised in Miami and my family still lives there so I visit quite often. I moved to the Bay Area not too long ago (3 years) for work and IMO it's no comparison. Miami is a great place to live if your priorities are partying. There are excellent night clubs and beautiful men and women everywhere. The Bay Area holds an advantage over almost every point the OP made. Rent is ~$2k for a 2 bedroom 2 bath if y…
When he said the weather is nice for the winter and also pretty OK most of the summer I just had to wonder. I mean, different strokes for different folks but man, that is a totally different yardstick than how I measure weather, and I grew up in Florida.
I'm another South Florida to Bay Area transplant here, and I gotta say, I hate the Bay Area's weather. The winters are cold and rainy (an awful combination), and summer evenings are way too chilly. I'd take Florida weather any day.
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I'm sure you were just trying to scare off the Californians. Seattle Cascade snow is wet and icky; it's not the dry soft powder they get in Utah or other places in the Rockies. There are way better places for snow than Seattle.
And it's great snow the day it falls and isnt wet until it gets close to thaw temps. We also get a lot more snow a year over all at lower altitudes than anywhere else. Sure ours not always champagne powder, but with several hundred days skiing/boarding in co and ut, I feel I can make a comparison. Even heavy powder is still a shit ton of fun. Also because it snows more you are less likely to have tracked out conditio…
I'm a native Washingtonian (Bothell/UW grad) so I know the snow at Crystal and Stevens. I also did my phd in SLC, the snow is much better there. These days I live in snowless Beijing.
I would say anything to keep the Californians out; its part of our culture.
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#309I'm not sure if others have experienced this, but my brain doesn't function very well in tropical heat and humidity. It just seems to slow down, and mental games don't seem as interesting. It may be that I've been conditioned by many episodes of tropical vacations growing up, but whatever the reason, I can't (and indeed, don't really want to) code below about 30 degrees latitude.
I'm the opposite. My brain works well as soon as I'm no longer shivering. Sweat doesn't phase me too much. It's great for me out here in Phnom Penh, would be too hot/humid for most folks in the long run, but suits me perfectly. Oh yeah, no AC or fan going in my home office here either! Back north, outside of 2 months of summer you keep having to adjust heating or put on/take off layers of clothing as the time of day…
I don't mind sweating at all, as long as I'm wearing swim trunks and nothing else. Sweating at the office, wearing underwear, pants, and a t-shirt - that rises to the top of my conscious mind, poking me repeatedly.
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#310Miami is a complete shithole...grew up there and lived there 15 years.
Now living in a major western european city for 4 years and almost everything about europe blows the states out of the water