Why I Hate South Florida
This was a popular post on my last blog and I wrote it because everyone kept asking me why I hated living in South Florida. Here I list my reasons. Read on if you dare!
Here are a few of the reasons why I despise South Florida.
- It’s very hot and very humid.
- It’s over-populated. There are over 5 million people living here and you can’t tell where one city or county ends until you see a sign indicting where you are.
- People judge you by the amount of money you make, the car you drive, or the house you live in.
- Most people here have no common sense. Period.
- Everyone drives like shit, and half of them are uninsured. I almost get crashed into every day.
- Every single day on the news, there is a story about someone who got raped or murdered. Seriously.
- As much as people like to think that our beaches are great, they are filled with tar & trash. Especially when Paris Hilton is in town.
- If we ever run out of plastic, South Florida can be blamed for it since most people down here have fake boobs or even fake asses. Who in their right mind would want ass implants?
- Too many bitchy Cubans constantly complaining about Fidel Castro. Does anyone remember the whole Elian Gonzales fiasco? Well, I had to LIVE through it.
- People are snotty and rude, and they all think that their shit doesn’t stink.
- Whenever something major happens in the U.S., somehow South Florida has ties to it. Even the suicide bombers from 9/11 lived here.
- I hate the Miami Dolphins and they suck. I especially hate Dan Marino. The man is a jackass. Every time the Dolphins have a shitty season (which is every year), I have to hear about how they were undefeated in 1972. Hello! That was over 30 years ago! Get over yourselves!
- South Beach is extremely over-rated. And what most people don’t know is that it is surrounded by shitty neighborhoods. Oh, yeah… and their clubs suck.
- There is no music scene in South Florida unless you only listen to shit. Rock? Jazz? Fugeddaboutit!
- All the New Yorker’s who come here to retire bitch about the traffic. Excuse me?
- There are golf courses everywhere. Golf sucks.
- People are loud and obnoxious. They cut in line and then try to intimidate you or ignore you if you say something. This also falls under the category of driving. They cut in front of you, and sometimes they try to run you off the road or cut you off and then slam on the brakes while going 70 + miles on the highway. Fun times indeed.
- Most of the cops don’t even pull over the 10 cars that just ran that red light. They turn their heads and look away as if to say, “I didn’t see anything.” Lazy bastards. And of course if it was you, then you are pulled over immediately. Murphy’s Law is in effect!
- Speaking of cops, they constantly racially profile people when they actually do pull someone over for something. I have been pulled over twice and they let me go with no ticket. Why? They said I had no prior tickets. True. But if I didn’t look like a white girl with a tan, I’d have gotten the tickets and had my car searched. Had they searched one of those times, I’d have been screwed. Or not. Who knows? I’ve gotten away with far worse. But that is a story for another day.
- Everything is extremely expensive. You can’t even buy a house unless you can afford at least $300,000 and that’s not even a nice house in a crappy neighborhood. And if by chance you can afford the house, you will probably end up foreclosing because you can’t afford the outrageous property taxes.
- Even though housing and everything else is expensive, employers don’t pay people enough so most families rely on multiple jobs to keep them afloat. My family included.
- Health insurance here is so expensive that most people go without it.
- We had Jeb Bush as a governor. Guess who was our governor when George W. Bush was “elected”?
- A lot of the immigrants from Cuba refuse to learn English and they think you are the stupid gringo because you don’t speak their language. Any visit to any store in Miami will show this. Everything is in Spanish with English subtitles, and the cashiers just point at the screen because they can’t tell you the amount.
- The Wet Foot/Dry Foot policy. This means that any Cuban who touches dry land is guaranteed asylum and can live off the dole and if you are Haitian, you are sent back. It’s completely unfair.
- Plastic people. Now this one isn’t just the people who have plastic in their bodies; these are the fake people who think that they are special and the world owes them everything and you are nothing but a lower life form.
- ID theft is rampant down here.
- Everyone hates everyone else, whether it’s because of the color of your skin or your religion. They even have a love/hate relationship with themselves.
- Hurricanes. But I will take a hurricane over an earthquake any day. At least we get a warning.
- Have I mentioned we have a city named Boca Raton? It literally translates to “Mouth of the Rat”. Enough said.
Well, that’s just some of the things that irritate me about South Florida. If you are planning a trip here, save yourself the money and visit somewhere decent.
You just about covered all the bases. As far as the Dolphins go, I could care less. The Miami Dolphins winning or losing certainly does not make South Florida a better or worse place to live. The 3rd world people here on the other hand are out of control. These people never owned a car and come here and are handed a drivers license. If they miss their exit, they just back up, ON THE EXPRESSWAY! When it rains, they put their emergency flashers on (who told them this was an acceptable practice is beyond me). If they need to drop someone off or pick them up, they do it in the middle of the road. They just stop and have a conversation while creating a backup, and if you honk your horn, you are an asshole and they give you the finger and curse you out. You CAN NOT use your turn signal in Miami, people will speed up to purposely block you from merging, changing lanes, etc. People here MUST stop anytime there is something on the side of the road, wrecker truck, police car, ambulance, even if it’s in the opposite lanes of traffic. This creates a traffic jam 10 miles long and people seem perfectly happy to sit in it so they can see what happended. Most, NOT ALL, of the latin people here think their shit doesn’t stink and that they are the the best thing to ever happen to Miami. Strangely enough, latins in other places don’t act like this, or at least not to the exteme they do here. I travel a lot, and have been to every state in the country, and none of them suck like Florida. Even when flying, you can tell when you are in, or on, a flight to or from South Florida. I was flying home this last Saturday and was in Atlanta Int’l getting ready to board my connecting flight to Miami. I was in Zone 5, and when my zone was called I got in line. There was some kind of delay in boarding, and after zone 6, they called all zones all seats. Do you think the rest of the people got in the line? Of course not, said a passenger standing next to me, this flight is headed for Miami. About 50 people literally pushed there way into the front of the line and I stood there saying what the f**k is wrong with you people? Getting off, the same thing in reverse. Before the seat belt sign was even turned off, people were getting up trying to be the first ones off the plane. Then you see them standing in baggage claim waiting just like you. The people here are the most ignorant and low class I have ever seen or dealt with. I am actively looking for a house and a job in Arizona and Texas. The ONLY thing keeping me in this miserable place is my job. I will leave the instant I find one out of this place. I have lived here for 38 years, all of my life, and can’t take it any more. Now, you may say I am racist. In fact, every woman I have ever dated was latin, including my ex-wife. So, NO. I am not a racist, I am just prejudice against the STUPID, IGNORANT, 3rd WORLD, NON-ENGLISH speaking MORONS who live here. They have absolutely ruined Miami, and I always tell people from other places to NOT visit Miami. IT SUCKS!!!
@Greg :S Ooof! I can’t wait to get out of here, too! It all comes down to money, which besides your friggin’ life force, South Florida sucks it right out of you. I have to win the lotto or find a rich relative to get outta here!
Don’t move to California then. You will go from Cubans to Mexicans and the theme is still the same. I hate California as much as you hate Florida. Enough said. Have a great day.
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I was raised in Miami. I left when I turned 18 and never looked back. That place sucks. Best of luck on your move someday.
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I find it amusing that you know so many things and precisely at that, that you hate about your city.
Arrogrant Cubans destroyed Southflorida.
south florida used to be paradise and now it’s rampant with crack, crime and more corrupt cops than anywhere else. Not a day goes by that there isn’t more violence or another story of a bad seed cop. I left there too and never returned, and never plan to again
Wow, i just took time to actually read your list, and it was dead on. The only thing i would add, is that even the nice condo, and apartments have serious mold problems. In fact, most make you sign a disclosure form, so you cant sue them when you become sick. The second thing that i would add, is the huge amounts of tickets, and towing that they do in Miami, because of so few space for parking.
The most stressful time in my life was spent in Miami. But by far, the most stressful part was living among the racit Cubans, who do nothing but strut back and forth. Lil “Scarfaces” wanna-be.
You pretty much covered all the bases about southeastern florida.The only thing you left out is the fact that the terrain is horrible.We live in a freakin swamp here.It is not stimulating or uplifting at all.The big 5 reasons imho;People,crime and corruption,cost of living,weather and topography.The area is literally and figuratively flat.
Fl (and Cali) are hotbeds of morgellons syndrome. I was there in 2007 for 6 months, and caught it I think when working. I am still struggling with this. This is not a implied judgement on any certain people, other than a caution about Fl in general.
Take Care,
MorgellonsDude
my wife and I moved her 4 years ago so she could attend med school. i had no idea that this place was so overwhelmingly shitty. everything u said is pretty damn close to our constant complaints about this place. we’re moving at the end june and will not be returning for good long while.
i needed to read that, cuz (additional piont) this place can make you feel very alone.
good luck to you,
KRIS
I live in a “supposedly” luxury condo. This means we have a puerto rican woman- excuse me “concierge” who gets paid 50 grand a year to sit on her fat ass, flirt with the male residents and on top of this take kickbacks. So– if you need an aprartment clened you give her 120 , she gives the maid 40 and then keeps $80 for herselfr. Guess what-she’s scoring sitting on her fat ass. Supposed ly they do background checks on all the owners or renters. but they don’t. One resident as a company that sendsout luxury cars with prostitutes every night. But she can live here cause she has money.
The building is a reflection of the mentality in south florida. Be reaaly stupid, get fake boobs, have a phony voice, own a porsche and a mercedes and you can get by and become popular. Every time a porsche drives in front of a restaurant you get a million women with fake boobs running out to meet the owner and try to pick him up. He could be a drug dealer leasing the car ar $500 a month and living in a hut- I have never never in my life seen stupider,dumber people than down, here. if I could sell my condo- and not lose money I would. Until then- its dealing with morons 24/’7,365 days
It was never paradise here,The vibe or if you want to call it energy,sucks.It all has to do with the element of people,the weather,and the topography.Its hard to believe that people love the weather down here.For about 8 months out of the year,the heat and humidity are horrific and oppressive beyond belief.It makes you feel like sleeping all the time.It is a total downer.Add to that what i mentioned earlier about violent crime and corruption and a out of control cost of living and you have a hellhole.There is no civility at all here either.
IF YOU HATE IT SO MUCH THEN GET DA FUK OUT N QUIT YOUR BITCHIN…
NO ONE WANTS TO READ YOUR BULLSH!T AND ODDLY ENOUGH I HAD TO BC THATS MY HOMETOWN…
NO GOOD CLUBS HERE?
YOU JUST DONT KNOW WHERE TO LOOK…
I MUST AGREE WITH YOU THAT THE DOLPHINS DO SUK…
MY HUSBAND IS IN LOVE WITH THEM AND IM A PATS FAN SO IT GET KINDA VICIOUS IN MY HOUSE…
THE DRIVERS HERE ARE TERRIABLE BUT NYC IS SO MUCH WORSE…
ALL OF YOU NEED TO QUIT YOUR WHINING AND LEAVE…
AND GET A FREAKIN LIFE…
You are the perfect example of a typical ignorant South Floridian. You type in all caps as if you are YELLING, you can’t spell for shit, and somehow you think that ellipses are the same thing as periods.
With your manic rambling, you’ve done a stand-up job of showing the world how much of an ass you really are. Bravo!
So True!!
I’d like to thank this poster for confirming what all the others have posted here………..
South Florida has become a third world country.
All Caps = Ignorance
Spelling Errors = Stupidity
Content = Arrogance, Stupidity, Ignorance
Word Choices = Stupidity, Ignorance
I think that about covers it.
OneLuvGurl is right on the money…………………And I agree with her.
I wish we could leave South Fla. But jobs… or lack of jobs else where, keeps us here. My daughter was smart and got out of here. Tells me how great it is to be around nice people. It’s depressing living here. I feel like a minority in my own country. I have been told to learn to speak Spanish. I was born here. Shouldn’t they learn to speak English?
My house is so close to my neighbor I can hear them sneeze!
I am tired. Just would like a little place in the country somewhere.
Tell that to all the Indians who lived here before the white men. Sell your house and get the fuck out!! Stop the bull shit and get a life. What are you afraid of???
Totally agree!
Here in Palm-laud-mi “it’s not the heat that gets you, it’s the stupidity”. Best example of the idiocy is Channel 7 news. Check out the “Weather Stripper”. I swear she gave me a lap dance once at Scarletts. Some other skank called Lily Lollopop was dancin to crappy hip-hop and tellin me how great Miami is.
But seriously, after 6 years stuck in this intellectual desert I’m finally getting out! by Sept 26th I’ll be living amongst the rednecks of the gulf coast. which is still preferable to the collection of scumbags and simpletons from all over the Carribean and South America. At least they speak English.
Long live Castro!
So here is a One-Finger Salute to all things Southeast Flori-duh.
Bravo!!
Totally agree!
Here in Palm-laud-mi "it's not the heat that gets you, it's the stupidity". Best example of the idiocy is Channel 7 news. Check out the "Weather Stripper". I swear she gave me a lap dance once at Scarletts. Some other skank called Lily Lollopop was dancin to crappy hip-hop and tellin me how great Miami is.
But seriously, after 6 years stuck in this intellectual desert I'm finally getting out! by Sept 26th I'll be living amongst the rednecks of the gulf coast. which is still preferable to the collection of scumbags and simpletons from all over the Carribean and South America. At least they speak English.
Long live Castro!
So here is a One-Finger Salute to all things Southeast Flori-duh.;…
HAHA you are trading hot strippers for toothless rednecks, in all honesty not everyone can be happy, if you dont like where you are living then just leave. ITs the people wth chips on thier shoulders that create a bad atmosphere including most of the people that are complaining here so what goes around comes right back around.
I have to agree with what nearly everyone has said. I moved here exactly one year ago and it has been really rough for me. Really rough.
Im 29 years old. I was born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and when I was 25 I moved to Tampa and spent 3 years there. I did not dislike Tampa, but I felt a little bored there and a little discouraged that the beaches werent so great (in my opinion).
I have an aunt and some cousins in Fort Lauderdale, and I thought I would give living in South Florida a try. It seemed like fun when I visited and the beaches were gorgeous. I also have a great interest in architecture and was very impressed with all of the new highrises built in downtown Miami. It seemed like a good fit for me.
I could not have been more wrong. First of all, for $850 a month I get about half of the apartment I got in Tampa for $725. That is only the beginning though.
The worst part about here is the people. The latin people definately have a superior attitude in Miami, but they are not the whole problem. Black people are downright nasty here and that includes African Americans and Haitians. Dont even try to imply Im a racist; Im from the Detroit area and I never had a problem with black people there or in Tampa for that matter. Everybody is rude here and disrespectful here. Everybody.
The latin people (Cubans in particular) are really something though. They think Miami is the center of the universe and they constantly brag about how “they run this city”. What really bothers me is that they say “American” in such negative way when describing an American born person. It is almost like its a racial slur to them and they say it its only with contempt. (“he is American”). Hispanic people who are my age who WERE BORN IN THIS COUNTRY with immigrant parents (or even grandparents) do this too. Why trash the country that has been so good to you? As a proud American that really rubs me the wrong way.
Its so fun to get treated with disrespect 75% of the time you go to a gas station, 7-11, fast food establishment, the grocery store etc. It will literally blow your mind. Anywhere else Ive lived or visited, if you treat a customer like that YOURE FIRED.
While there are beautiful women here, the concept is very exaggerated. Women here are VERY shallow. One Cuban guy I met couldnt afford his rent and had to move his wife and children into his friends house. He drives some big body BMW though and told me he got worked over when he bought it and his payment is $789 or something like that. I asked him……….”why dont you get rid of this car and put that money toward housing???” He told me when he drove a Nissan no woman would pay attention to him and now he gets all kinds of girls on south beach driving his BMW. Its worth mentioning that this guy is good looking and muscular. What does that tell you?
Im going back to Tampa. I have hated this place so much. I dont care if a Cuban writes back in all CAPS bashing what I just said. Miami sucks. South Florida sucks. Miami is not greater than New York. Miami is not greater than Chicago. Miami is not greater than Los Angeles. Miami is not the center of the universe and it never will be.
Miami is exactly what Ive described and that is only the tip of the iceberg. I wouldnt discourage anyone from coming here on vacation in February. Thats all this place is good for. Trust me.
It should also be worth mentioning that for a place to be the so called “center of the universe” it should be attractive to big business.
There are practically no corporate headquarters here. There is Burger King and there is Carnival Cruise lines (only here due to location obviously). Bacardi rum also has its headquarters here.
Why are no companies interested in making Miami their hub? For the reasons I mentioned in my previous post and then some.
Miami will never have the corporate presence that Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, and the Bay area (San Fran/San Jose) have. They even have a hard time competing in this regard with mid-size cities like Memphis, Charlotte, San Diego………..and other big cities like Detroit and Seattle as well.
But Miami is supposed to be the center of the universe right?
I could keep bashing Miami for hours but I think I will stop at two posts. This one was worth writing and it cannot be denied.
funny thing, i lasted in florida for one year.
im going back home to california!
im making this same blog post right now!!!
Typical Cuban losers, typing in CAPS to emulate how they shout and scream in real life.
Fuck Miami. This is an evil place filled with assholes. If a category 5 storm wiped this city out, I would certainly not be sorry.
I like seeing that I am not alone in my dislike for South Florida, but let’s try to keep the racism out of it, okay?
Maybe it would be a little better if everyone got along.
Im Cuban, and I truly HATE South Florida.
I hate every facet of it, I was born and raised in Miami, I now live in Ft. Lauderdale, and I couldnt loathe it anymore.
Its not the Cubans, there are good Cubans and Asshole Cubans, its the SOCIAL CLASS of individuals.
I know ” High Class ” people who are Cuban who look down on me like im a scumbag, just because im not up to my eye balls in debt for living the Kings life on the Paupers salary.
This place will LITERALLY suck the life out of you, I had left to Kentucky for a year and it was the greatest place on Earth!
My girl and I came back cause of a death in the Family and have regretted it ever since.
From horrible drivers, to horrific low paying wages, to inflated cost of living prices, I cant for the life of me see why people stay here ?
Im leaving in March, and im NEVER looking back, I hate to sound cold, but I dont care who dies next, il never return to this shit hole.
Keep the mediocre beaches, the rude people, the not so beautiful plastic shallow women, the d-bag dudes, fuck all that.
South Florida (including Miami) is a DUMP. I didn’t think there was a place in America that could rival New York for SHIT people, but this is it. This place is a dumping ground for the lowest dregs of society– guidos, bimbos, rappers, cranky run-down old people, and arrogant nightclub low-lifes. I positively HATE these shallow ASSHOLES. People here are uniformly rude, even when doing them a favor and spending your hard-earned money in their shops and businesses. I’m not a violent person, but this SCUM makes me want to take a baseball bat and humble these nasty, abrasive, mean-spirited GARBAGE.
And, don’t get me started on the fact that this place is one irritating, stressful rat race, with prices that are unjustifiably through the roof, and any resource of value (hotel rooms, etc) is going to be so hogged up in this overcrowded Hell, that you’ll never get your hands on it. Absolutely sickening.
Add to this the fact that the weather sucks, and you have every reason to avoid this shit hole like scabies. Never again.
I moved to Miami a few years ago and cannot wait to leave. Everything people have said about the place is correct. I honestly cannot even think of one single positive thing or positive experience to mention about Miami (or South FL as a whole). Living here has been sheer hell and has turned me (a once calm, collective and non-racist person) into an angry, distrusting a**hole who is sick and tired of living among human scum, whether rich, poor, male, female or from ANY ethnic group inhabiting this swamp.
The biggest problem with Miami is the people. There are far too many people with horribly negative traits living here, i.e. narcissists, sociopaths, fake people and those who just get off on being assholes because in Miami, they CAN get away with it and laugh in your face. I primarily blame a lot of the Cubans here who seem to have a warped sense of entitlement and superiority and look down on everyone and only take care of their own. People seem to be very cliquish, as if this were a small town. If they are nice, they usually want something in return, i.e. many favors, since people in Miami seem to love taking advantage. It also doesn’t matter whether people are rich or poor here – they’re still ghetto. You can live in Hialeah or Brickell and still experience the same BS and the same trashy, rude, uneducated, classless people who have zero respect.
Don’t get me started on how many ripoff merchants there are here. Doctors, vets, mechanics, landlords, condo associations…you name it. I have had to fight with many businesses and individuals because they tried to fleece me. Some I won, some I lost, but I could do without that kind of stress.
The driving here is nuts. I am so sickened and afraid of the drivers here that I forced myself to pay a little more rent so that my wife and I can avoid the perils of having to drive to/from work each day. So many hit and runs, so many people driving as if they could care less if their recklessness kills or injures another human being.
Miami is not a good place; it is a steaming cesspool of anger, envy and craziness. I would gladly warn anyone against living here, unless they come here just to party and can be oblivious to the BS in terms of living here and surviving. If you are a respectful, reserved, kind and well mannered person, Miami could eat you alive.
Wow
Can’t wait to leave either. I really hate this place.
Glad to hear I’m not the only one
I thought I was alone in the way I felt about SoFla but after reading these comments and many more like them on other blog sites, I realize I am not the only one by a long shot! Whew! I have lived in the Ft. Lauderdale area for 16 years and I can safely say it has changed my outlook on life & not in a good way. I used to be a very nice person and smile all the time but that’s been taken from me and I constantly feel as if I have to be on guard. I have to deal with depression all the time. No place is perfect and it’s not everyone nor is it always bad all the time (you can find some nice people though it’s hard), but there’s a definite pervasiveness to all the ill-feeling, the rudeness, the distrust, paranoia, and yes, the bigotry. Everyone is too afraid to call out the Latin and other ethnic communities on their bigotry & homphobia. Despite all the phony blather about the diversity down here, SoFla, particularly Dade & Broward Counties, is a seething hotbed of racism, sexism, and homophobia, waiting to go off. I think it gets a little better as you get further north. Were it not for my family, a decent job, and my irreplaceable best friend, I’d be out of here. Life to is too short to waste on a place that always drags you down.
im glad to read this. I find i can predict where people have come from when i find a blog like this.
I was brought up in an area of australia which has one of the highest rates of suicide and depression. This is kept covered up by the completely corrupt government here becuase it effects the tourist industry. When people found out australia is largely hiding some nasty secrets and is really a fancified third world pee hole
they come to realise that it also has one of the highest rates of attacks on backpackers and tourists and is now internationally notorious for it. The place used to be ok but that was another time and era. Thanks for the blog post
I can’t wait to get outta south Fl, it stinks.