Miami, FL possible move

[Anonymous]

Second poster here--the Miami native that went to UM. To the person about to move to UM with the professor/spouse: Fear not! UM is a great community that is lively and in the best part of Miami.

Re: Roaches: All of the stories are true. They are horrendous creatures that have survived from eons ago,and will survive a nuclear attack. Blech!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't listen to the "are you racist?" crowd here. They're constantly looking for reasons to call people that.

Miami is the best argument for English-as-our-official-language. No one living in the U.S. should need to learn a language other than English to navigate ANY area here.

OP again. Thanks, PP. I 100% agree with you - come to America, you should learn English. This is one "con" on my pros/cons list. Apparently everyone speaks Spanish and I think that's a little ridiculous. This isn't Cuba, Mexico, or Spain, etc. This is Florida. But, I digress. I can get past that.

Anyone have recommendations on neighborhoods to avoid (excessive crime) or SFH-type neighborhoods with a reasonable commute to downtown to look in?

Honestly OP- I am not looking to flame but if this is how you feel pre move I would not recommend that you move there. Once you are immersed in Miami this feeling will only grow stronger and you will be frustrated and resentful. As for jobs if you are in healthcare you can forget getting or surviving any job without Spanish. I lived in the Gables and work in healthcare and I don't know what I would have done had I bit been fluent in Spanish. I am not Latina (lol at the faux Cuban comment by the PP) and I had a lot of fun but the avg non Latin person will feel very much the outsider.

[Anonymous]

*had I not been fluent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone. PP, are roaches really a thing?? It scares me that you had to make an entire bullet point for roaches. Any bug makes me jittery and uncomfortable and big ones are the worst. I swatted an enormous fly in my office just yesterday and actually had to step out and BREATHE because I was nearly hyperventilating afterwards before I could move it's dead body to the trash

I briefly looked at housing on Craigslist but haven't done real or substantial searches. It does look like housing is cheaper than around here, which is a relief. What neighborhoods should we avoid and look at? I'd like to minimize the commute downtown as much as possible but *not* live downtown - we have a big dog and need a fenced yard. Budget would be $1,500 for a 1-2 br SFH. Hopefully that's doable, I'm not a fan of townhouses.

I hope it won't be hard for me to find a comparable job down there..there are a good number of ads that I looked at but need to update my resume first. Would I have to take a pay cut or could I get the same salary I'm making here?

NP. Roaches are a thing. They are huge and the fly and it's not about how clean your house is. Traffic is as bad or worse depending on where you live. People stay home more, so it will be harder to build a social network. If you don't have kids, you will have mainly your job for potential friends. Weather is great though. Cost of living is much better,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't listen to the "are you racist?" crowd here. They're constantly looking for reasons to call people that.

Miami is the best argument for English-as-our-official-language. No one living in the U.S. should need to learn a language other than English to navigate ANY area here.

OP again. Thanks, PP. I 100% agree with you - come to America, you should learn English. This is one "con" on my pros/cons list. Apparently everyone speaks Spanish and I think that's a little ridiculous. This isn't Cuba, Mexico, or Spain, etc. This is Florida. But, I digress. I can get past that.

Anyone have recommendations on neighborhoods to avoid (excessive crime) or SFH-type neighborhoods with a reasonable commute to downtown to look in?

Honestly OP- I am not looking to flame but if this is how you feel pre move I would not recommend that you move there. Once you are immersed in Miami this feeling will only grow stronger and you will be frustrated and resentful. As for jobs if you are in healthcare you can forget getting or surviving any job without Spanish. I lived in the Gables and work in healthcare and I don't know what I would have done had I bit been fluent in Spanish. I am not Latina (lol at the faux Cuban comment by the PP) and I had a lot of fun but the avg non Latin person will feel very much the outsider.

OP here. I am in the legal field. I don't resent people who speak Spanish, I just don't care to learn it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again. Ugh, so far this is NOT making me want to move to South Florida anymore than when DH brought it up. I don't have any desire to learn Spanish but most of the job postings in my industry want bilingual employees! I am a white woman of European descent and learned German in high school but don't have any aptitude for languages and don't see us living in FL for a long period of time, definitely not long enough for me to want to learn Spanish in America. Again, no kids so we really don't care about schools. We'd be renting.

OP - You'll be working with/interacting with the products of the crappy schools. Most days, you'll feel like a genius and/or be frustrated with dealing with bozos.