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[quote=Anonymous]OMG I only dream about moving back to Miami - we plan to when DH gets offered relocation in a few years.  I am a native Washingtonian, but I would definitely prefer Miami any day.  Here are the reasons:

1) Weather - totally better there, cannot compare.  At least 1/2 of the entire year is in the 70s.  Here, we are lucky to get 6 weekends of weather like that - rain free.  And Miami doesn't have rainy days like we do except during hurricane season obviously (small price to pay for perfect weather otherwise).  And I think the summer there isn't worse than it is here - the average highs are upper 80s, and its tropical weather, much different than other parts of florida.

2) Beautiful - The trees are beautiful, the flowers are beautiful, even the freaking median strips, pink sidewalks, art deco and stucco everything, even mcdonalds is beautiful down there.  You would just have to see for yourself.

3) Traffic - it is much, much worse in the DC area.  But in Miami, nobody lives downtown, so everybody has to "commute" whereas here, some unlucky people chose to live inside DC and don't really have a real commute.

4) BEACH!  (no need to elaborate here)

5) Culture.  Miami has that very international, very Cuban, very hip, sort of culture.  They have so many styles, so many songs that don't even make it up here.  DC is devoid of style and culture.

6) Cost of living - much cheaper there.

7) FOOD! - OMG the restaurants down there are so much better than here.  They have excellent seafood, italian food, latin cuisine.

8) Night life - the best in America IMO.  DC doesn't even hold a candle, no comparison.

9) Pitbull - Dale!

Now, Here are the cons:

1) Schools - I have heard they are generally terrible, although I believe there are charter schools, and many kids do private.

2) Hurricanes (very rarely bad though)

3) Crime - let's just say it's nothing like NoVA down there.  There's a lot of car theft for one thing.

4) Roaches - I think more people have them there than here, and you have to have a pest control contract and have your place sprayed every month to keep them out.  [/quote]

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