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Old Posted Aug 28, 2019, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Crawford View Post
Miami and SD are very different, IMO.

Miami is international, very nonwhite, intense, New Yorky, very un-middle America. San Diego feels all-American, very white for CA standards, heavy military presence, somewhat conservative (old-style conservative, not Trump-style), super laid-back. To me it feels like Iowa on the Pacific, or maybe how LA/OC felt 40-50 years ago.

And obviously there are big demographic differences, with Miami's Carribean and Jewish communities and SD's WASP, Mexican and Asian communities.

Also, Miami feels like a really small version of a global metropolis, while SD feels like a really big version of a small town.
I don't find Miami to be "New Yorky" at all anymore. I think the last time one could actually feel that was in the 1990s. And for apparent Jewish-ness, you'd have to be up north in Boca or somewhere or find some elderly enclave on the Beach somewhere.
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