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hey guys . my first trip to the states . florida. ideas?
sans.terre:
...yeah...oranges....
cmc4130:
True, it's Florida, but Miami is its own thing.
The Urbanist’s Miami: Street art, shrimp shacks, and show-pony mansions.
http://nymag.com/travel/features/miami-2013-4/
As the notorious home—or at least vacation home—of NBA superstars, Latina pop queens, drug kingpins, and, these days, the sisters Kardashian, Miami is easy to dismiss as just a sun-addled tropical playground. But it’s also an art mecca during Basel, a rave at the Winter Music Conference, a capital of international investment, and, of course, one of America’s most dynamic cities. Around 37 percent of the metro area’s 5.5 million inhabitants are foreign-born—a higher proportion than anywhere else in the country. Among those Cuban, Haitian, Brazilian, and Russian newcomers are “Gateway to Latin America” businessmen, political exiles, and vodka magnates, many of whom are snapping up the sort of ostentatious properties that make Miami’s turbulent real-estate market so famous. There are new hotels (in Miami, there are always new hotels), like the Philippe Starck– and Lenny Kravitz–designed SLS, as well as a $312 million overhaul of the Design District and an ever-evolving Herzog & de Meuron parking garage that is a feat of architectural splendor. To counter all that swankiness: world-class graffiti, copious thrift shops, heaps of fried shrimp in Little Havana, and enough rough-around-the-edges allure to make the South Floridian city spectacularly, perennially irresistible.
Dick:
I live on the other coast of Florida. But Ive been to miami a fair amount of times. Just check out downtown and south beach for the tourist stuff. The art district is very nice too. It can get wild down there so just be smart about how you act. Although 50% of the folks there are vististing aswell. Also I suggest going into any given Walmart in ft Lauderdale around 8pm, that's where it really gets intense.
barcodebilly:
Been to a walmart in Orlando.. was something else.
sans.terre:
^^^ hahahahaha actually loled :D
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