Hi, i’m a northern european who visited Miami last spring and there was just this weird encounter that left an impression on me. I went to a smaller grocerystore in Miami Beach and the clerks there didn’t speak any english AT ALL. Like i asked for a spoon with my bread pudding and they started to tell it in spanish. Same thing in the check out, they did the counting in spanish ect. lol. I was just wondering how is it possible that people in USA, who work at a store, don’t speak ANY english at all? In my country even all the immigrants speak at least some english if not my country’s language. How come you don’t learn the most common language in the world while living INSIDE it’s country?

Hello,

I will be in Miami for a layover in the next few weeks. I am Canadian and would like to avoid MAGA restaurants and bars while I am there. Any good recommendations? Preferably Democrat businesses.

Please do not comment if you do not have recommendations for me :)

Edits: thanks to those who understand what I am trying to do. I am indeed not looking to engage in political conversations, I just want to avoid spending money towards these businesses. In case you do not follow the news, POTUS wants to make Canada the 51st state. I can’t change my layover at this point and it’s 8 hours long.

Can you guess it’s all vegan -food is Vegan Cuban Cuisine.

Miami Lakes folk are something else

Space Wedding soon

As someone who has spent over 20 years in North Broward/South Palm Beach. Miami is way to overhyped its old and dirty, the houses are all tiny as hell, and you always flood when it rains for more than a day. What's the allure? & don't tell me you're spending time at south beach with all that hectic traffic not to mention more potholes then a Costa Rican calle in San Jose. True Floridians don't even go to the beach more than twice in a given year. Yes I came here for violence, Now defend your county

Just came to MIA and as I’m going up the ramp I see it’s backed up, because 5 motorcycle clowns are using radar and pulling people over. They may have a new name but they are still the worthless POS they have always been. Crime in Miami must be low when these aholes are harassing people trying to catch a flight

I first noticed it because I wanted to play a song by America’s new Captain America (Afroman) - tried searching the jukebox and kept getting the message (can’t play this song at this location)

Ok, maybe Afroman can be alittle inappropriate- but then I started searching, g-unit, 2pac, Kanye, 50 cent. But Eminem is ok?

Has anyone else noticed? Does anyone else know why? There’s plenty of songs with inappropriate lyrics by white artists available, why are black artists not allowed?

I’ve already had so many issues where Spanish people like to “correct” the pronunciation of my name or give me the stink eye when I greet them in English. It’s like I’m the asshole for speaking the lingua Franca of the world.

I’m excited for being here I love this city, the multi culture and the beaches, the activties and I can’t wait to do them all!!!

Firstly, I have a lot of sympathy for people who have grown up and live in Miami. The prices of rentals and houses is insane. Wages need to catch up.

That being said, I’ve been struck by the beauty, culture and energy of your vibrant city. This is the only place I want to live. I realize people like me from outside your city are driving prices up and for my part, I apologize. This is paradise.

That being said, I’m looking for an area to move to where I can walk around. I love being outside (when it’s not 90 degrees at 85% humidity). Good restaurants, lots of trees. I LOVE NATURE. Not really a fan of the whole 40 story high rise on the beach with not a lot of walkability areas. Ideally not in the middle of the party. Beach is a plus but no essential.

I would like to be closer to Brickell, but Brickell is a little bit to concrete jungle for me, and kind of takes away from why I moved here to begin with.

Any good areas, neighborhoods, buildings, etc that you recommend?

Would you date a woman whose main drive for anything is dopamine? Let me explain, I was in 3 year relationship with this girl and her sole purpose is to have fun, at the time I thought that's what I wanted cause I also wanted to have all the crazy fun that miami offers, I still do I just have different priorities. Anyways, so this girl is always down for the party, the function, the event, the concert, anything you throw her way she'll probably attend. At first there was no issues because as we all know, the pandemic gave us a lot of free time and biden gave us Hella stimys yfm so I was pulling up to a lot of this events w her. Shortly afterwards everything kinda went back to normal and I decided to take on college 100%, (cause I had been lacking up to that point).

When I switched the gear from party animal, to let's get my shit together; we start having issues as she says I don't go places w her, or I don't take her on dates, or I don't go out w her friends or whatever. Keep in mind that I never stopped doing such things, I just had to be more strategic with it cause now I gotta deal with deadlines, projects, presentations, etc, so obviously I can't do what I had been doing up to that point.

She keeps doing all this shit on her own , which I was always ok with cause I knew how she was or whatever (i join at times but not like the beginning). The issue that arises is that she starts lying and hiding things from me, goes out and she says she's w her friends at the club or whatever and then doesn't mention the fact that they're all w other guys. Or she goes out w her friend and they end up in this guy's house but all of this is hidden from me, all she tells me is that she was her (female) friend and they went to the pool, no mention of the dude whatsoever. Or this guy that didn't like me cuz I bagged her was her friend, I mentioned that I don't think she should hang w him for this reason as this shows he's clearly interested in her and is salty that I got her, she then would talk to him through ig and then delete messages or they hung out a couple of times without me knowing. Keep in mind I only know all of this cause I went thru her phone. I should add i confronted her about all of this

Whatever so all these issues arise and consequently my trust over time diminishes. This cause me to ask her to please not go out so much as its not necessary for a girl in a relationship to keep looking for so much outside attention, cause lets be honest if I have a beautiful girl that makes me happy I don't need to go out to the bar, club, parties so often, I never said don't go I just felt betrayed a bit and needed this type of reassuring. She then felt attacked "I'm still young I just wanna enjoy my life blah blah blah"

And it's like I started doubting everything about her and creating the worst picture in my mind. Cause lets says she would somehow be going on some fucking boat w her friends, all I could think of is how they say all the bitches in boat are there to get drunk, suck dicc, and post ig stories, cause lets be honest that boat was prob paid for by some random rich guy, gurls dont be paying for shit so long their ass and tits fit the miami standard. And so this crumbling of my confidence in her made me see her as those dirty, party driven miami hoes and that hurts me so much.

Whatever this is so long already, but yeah this all kinda started going on and on and on to the point where we had to break up cause these issues were so damn reoccurring, olus her reason for lying about everyrhing was "i didnt tell you cause i know you would not like that/get mad". There's more things that happened but it's more or less the same kind of situation. To my knowledge she never actually cheated on me but fuck, my confidence literally took the biggest hit and now im just sad all the time and overthinking cause i still love her, or I think I love her. We broke up so technically we are not together but we still hang out and do intimate things. The issue now is that the label is not there anymore so there is no moral boundry for whatever she does and so all I can think of is how she may be doing all this fuck shit while I still have so many emotions involved.

This brings me to my initial question. Would you date a girl like this, whose main concern is just to have fun? Or if you were in a similar situation tell me how you went about it. Also when would you have call it quits?, cause I endured all these bs lies only cause in my mind she loved me enough to not be w anyone else behind my back but should i have skrrtt out that bitch a long time ago.

I heard there were big protests at alligator alcatraz. Get informed best you can and hold up a sign. Don't impede vehicles.

There is good Latin and Caribbean food in Miami for good cost, but if you want anything else, it's super overpriced and tastes meh. Like in London or Toronto or New York, I can get a good late night cheap schwarma whereas in Miami, I cannot find a nice cheap late night schwarma or it's so overpriced. East Asian food is so overpriced here and only aesthetic. Indian food is virtually non-existent or if there are a few restaurants (like Bombay Darbar), it's super overpriced (they charge $16 for lentils that I can make myself for $0.50 lmfao). Latin food is great, but there's honestly no spices in it so need more options. And the Mexican food is okay especially compared to Mexican food of Chicago or California. There's just no diversity of cuisines. New York and Toronto have hands down has amazing food from every culture that you can find for good cost, cannot beat it. There's nothing from the Eastern Hemisphere in Miami and that gets so frustrating.

Edit: There’s great fancy restaurants but I just want some more affordable ethnic cuisines. Yes I do like the fancy restaurants but it’s not feasible to spend $100 every time I want some ethnic cuisine. And I do like Latin food, the meats are good, but I can’t just eat that every single time. Also I’m not a transplant as I was born and raised here so please stop with all your move back comments.

PS: Just curious, but any place where I can find Indian food similar to what is made at home? Like where could I go to just find some simple aloo parantha or chole bhature? None of the Indian restaurants that I could find seem to have it.

Moved here from SF 6M ago and can’t believe the lack of good Asian food options. No good Chinese takeout, 0 Korean restaurants, and viet food is 40 mins away with only 1-3 real pho options. I get that there is jap food given high end sushi and ramen joints. But am I missing something or is there really no Chinese/viet/korean food? Fwiw I live in brickell and work in downtown

DISCUSSION IN THE COMMENTS PLEASE READ