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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
The immediate downtown of San Diego and Miami is similar, but that’s it
Miami grew as vacation and retirement community with a very master planned character. It has far fewer historic nodes with walkable businesses than places like San Diego or Los Angeles. Retail is all about strip malls and power centers, with gridded suburbs and not much else
Miami lacks real beach towns. The drive from Carlsbad through La Jolla and mission beach is down to downtown San Diego is nothing like the drive south from say lake worth to dt Miami Beach . Many more walkable pedestrian areas in the case of San Diego
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Miami lacks real beach towns? Probably, since Miami Beach is its own city. But the distance between both are probably closer than the distance between La Jolla and Downtown San Diego and about the same distance between the later and Coronado Island.
And Miami isn’t master-planned. It annexed a few places and lost some, similar to how LA grew.
The walkability of both areas are about the same if you consider setting both metros to scale. Southern California’s urban coast is continuous from Santa Monica to San Clemente then from Oceanside to Imperial Beach with a significant gap. South Florida’s urban coast is uninterrupted from Jupiter to Key Biscayne. Beach towns cover both.
And yeah, not much similarities between SD and Miami than what I mentioned. Both are pretty awesome and have great weather ( I like humidity as much as moderate weather).