MIA can be a tough place to live. It's very expensive, and you get hit up with a lot of "hidden taxes" like the cost of auto insurance, which is 2x the national average. The cost of homeowners (with windstorm) will make you faint.

Plus the traffic is horrible.

In the three county area (Dade, Broward, Palm Beach), the cost of living is extremely high in general. It's tough to even find "open country" until you get pretty far north into PBC, and from there, that's at least a 90 minute drive to KMIA.

Some people, who are into the fishing or boating groove, dig it. But the unending grind of living down there annoys most people after a short while.

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