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As someone who was born & raised in Broward/Ft. Lauderdale & also lived in Miami, it’s cool to see an in-depth history & perspective from someone who doesn’t live in Miami/South Florida. You did a great job researching us in detail, Carter!
Great video as Cuban immigrant living in Miami for most of my life I already knew a lot of the things mentioned but I still learned a LOT more about the place I call home
Great video brother. Born and raised in Miami and I’ve always been grateful for that, it truly is special. It’s changing very quickly today but that’s just how all things happen eventually.
It would be really cool to see Seattle covered. For me it always seemed like a really random place to be a major city. Cincinnati would be interesting as well, and if your willing to do smaller cities Casper, WY, would be really cool, definitely one of my favorite cities I’ve ever visited
Great episode. You asked for suggestions for other cities. Given your intro, it seems like Denver and the other front range towns would be interesting.
Carter, you do such a good job on these long format videos. I always learn something new and you keep my attention throughout the videos. I can't wait for the next episode of this series 😃✌️
Miami has not been hit by a major hurricane since 1926. Andrew was Cutler Ridge south. The last significant storm to hit Miami was Wilma in 2005. I know I have lived here my whole life.
Let's go! Video on my favorite place in the country and my home! Miami is the magic city and the gateway to Latin America. I cannot wait to see how Miami will continue to grow and change as it feels already like a different city than the one I moved to in 2011.
The reason the Redland is uniquely undeveloped is because of the UDB (Urban Development Boundary). The UDB restricts development in agricultural areas in an effort to promote agriculture. Every 7 years the UDB goes in front of a board that determines if the UDB should be altered or remain the same.
This is my favorite YT channel when i travel i throw on a new vid and cruise. I sense you are a sociologist, historian and anthropologist at heart! Joshua tapping in from Baltimore Maryland
I'm admittedly biased because I live here, but the furthest major US city from Miami-- Seattle-- would be a great next stop. Absolutely fascinating and incredibly salient relationship to its geography. If you come in person I'd show you around! I also make geography content!
I love the US explained for highlighting places I didn’t know about that rarely get talked about. I would love this series to talk about “Middle America” cities- or cities that, for their size, get talked about disproportionately less on the national stage- places like Dallas, Houston, Memphis, Louisville, Milwaukee, Charlott. I’m from CA, and to take it as an example- you could do a video on LA or S.F., but it would be (in my opinion) so much better to do one on Fresno, Stockton, Bakersfield, or even less-discussed coastal and head-of-gov places like San Diego, San Jose, or Sac
Great job! This was an informative and really enjoyable video while I cooked. I'm a Bahamian who has been traveling to Miami from before I could remember. It is great to hear in depth history! Thank you!
good job really good job St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago (5 hour vid there), god they're so many with interesting histories, you've got so much work to do. That said I think, just because it's not a place most people would think of in this vein, Billings Montana would be a good project, it's way more interesting than you would expect and would be very informative because of its unfamiliarity.
As a person who lives in Southeast Broward, I would rather drive 50 miles north over 20 miles south. They both take the same amount of time, but going north I feel like I'm actually going somewhere. I have a best friend in Kendal, and it took a 45 minute trip 2 hours to complete just because of traffic.
Amazing video. Of course, I have to suggest my home city of Charleston, SC. Indigenous, Spanish, English, French, Jewish, and especially Black history, all in one city.
What an excellent intro to a new series! If you've thought about doing an episode on two "sister cities" which I think would be excellent in this format, you should consider doing Pittsburgh and my hometown, the "Pittsburgh of the South" - Birmingham! Excited to see where this goes :)
Cincinnati. More than just the official city limits. Some locals consider everything inside the 275 loop as 'Cincinnati' which would include part of Indiana and Kentucky. East meets West before St. Louis, and where North met South.
Hi. I raised my son in Miami. worked there . 25 years as a nursing home director. I visited Baja in 1985, retired to San Felipe 4 years ago. It was a fishing village. Now 20k Americans are retired here in gated communities. Thats 50% of the population, 90 miles to the border. You can get an apt for $200 US. My house costs $400.
As a local from Miami I can confirm this video. Living here most of my life and leaning abut its history my whole time here this info and history is pretty accurate
9:14+ Finally a video that correctly mentioned that Miami wasn’t built (at least at first) on a swamp! You even put in an image of Silver Bluff, where this higher limestone ridge meets, and was eroded by Biscayne Bay. Just started watching. Your videos are great, Thank you.
It was such an amazing city. Now it seems to be ever in decline. I live fairly close to the city just on the border of the city limit. Nobody wants to live in the city itself anymore because it's just so overrun with drugs, gangs and homelessness and the tourist locations are too expensive for the average person. There's no middle class living in N.O. it's either very poor or the very rich live in the city limits. And the think it used to be the souths largest city!
@@minimalistvlogger3467 it could come back. It would take the whole city ousting out all the politicians and leaders and completely replacing them with new people who are qualified and have definite proven ways to bring the economy of N.O. back and budget the balance so the city actually starts to have extra money rather than no money and get really tough on crime while promoting a family oriented culture. Will this ever happen!? I mean, I hope but it's a long way coming!
Hey Carter, I just wanted to let you know. I am very excited about this new series and can’t wait to see more content as well as the rest of your US explained series. I was wondering if you might be able to cover Charlotte North Carolina in an episode I also thought it might be neat to at least cover One major city in each state, but I’m sure you have a plan for how you want to do things as the series will expand. As always, keep up the great work you are one of my favorite RUclips channels.⭐️🇺🇸
YEEEAAAAHHH BABY 305 WHERE KENDALL AT? WHERE SOUTH MIAMI AT? WHERE HOMESTEAD AT?? WHERE TAMIAMI AT??? SHOUTS OUT CUTLER BAY. SHOUTS OUT DORAL SHOUTS OUT PINECREST SHOUTS OUT HIALEAH (BOLLO DE PERRO)
@@Dtownpapi_ Oh. Carter did mention South Florida is the 9th largest metro in 2023. He also used the urbanized area defined by Census, which only counts the continuous high density census tracks. Since South Florida is pretty much one chunk of confined urban spread, nearly all its population is in one urban area. It was the 4th largest urban area. Houston and DFW (ATL as well) are more spread out, some of the metro population are included in sone smaller urban clusters separated from the main core, or outright classified as rural.
it might be an oversight to uncouple Miami's status as an immigrant metropolis with its status as an LGBT haven (especially as it applies to domestic migration and internal refugee status). It might also(?) be a good choice to leave that out of a "primer" video. But I don't know, the question of "why are cities where they are" boils down to "why do people live where they live" and some element of ethnography definitely should play a part
I'm from South Florida and complain about Ohioans. So what Julia Tuttle is from Cleveland, I'm still going to complain about Ohioans, just because ONE person from Ohio founded the city I'm suppose to now give a pass to all Ohioans, that such stupid logic
@@BarnabyJones07 several ohioans, the guy who made the railroad is from new york but had significant ties to ohio. and the brickells are from ohio. you’d be a swamp outpost if it weren’t for ohioans and other northerners
wooo i vote San Francisco is next!! i may be a bit biased bc I live nearby, but i love it so much and not just because it reminds me so much of NYC, where I used to live (I like to call SF Little Manhattan, like Little Italy/Chinatown, etc.) but there's just so much history and diversity, it would make an interesting contrast to Miami since it's a bit older in terms of foundation but a lot of the history is the same (with the exception of course being that SF was later eclipsed by a different city (or three) as the most populous in California) there's even an interesting parallel with Asia, the largest ethnic group in SF is Chinese and there's a very long and rich history of Chinese and Japanese and Filipino and generally Asian immigration, in addition to Latin American (mainly Mexican, later also Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Nicaraguan, etc.) immigration. I find it especially interesting that the most populous Latin American groups in Miami are Caribbean, whereas in SF, they're mainly Mexican/Central American. They also obviously have shared Native history in terms of genocide, though SF was completely transformed by the Gold Rush, whereas Florida was conquered almost as Jackson's pet project. There's also a shared history of rail connection, SF (okay, technically, Oakland) was the terminus of the transcontinental railroad, and there's also shared military history, SF was a major base in the Pacific theatre of the World Wars. Not being so biased though, I think LA, SJ, SD, LV, Phoenix, Albuquerque (+Santa Fe), Denver, and maybe even Portland and Seattle are all major contenders, just honestly most of the West, like west of the Mississippi, there's just so much luck and chance (and obviously, geography) that played into the development of what are today major cities. They didn't have the obvious benefits that port cities like Boston, Philly, NYC, Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, etc. had being literally on/near the Atlantic coast, or even those of Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Memphis, Detroit, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, etc. which were on major waterways which (eventually) connect to the Atlantic via boat, so I think places like Omaha, Salt Lake City, Cheyenne, Rapid City, Missoula, Coeur d'Alene or any of the other (relatively) large plains/mountains/pacific cities would be super interesting to learn about. In any case, another great video. Keep up the great work!
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Atlanta next
As someone who was born & raised in Broward/Ft. Lauderdale & also lived in Miami, it’s cool to see an in-depth history & perspective from someone who doesn’t live in Miami/South Florida. You did a great job researching us in detail, Carter!
Great video as Cuban immigrant living in Miami for most of my life I already knew a lot of the things mentioned but I still learned a LOT more about the place I call home
Great video brother. Born and raised in Miami and I’ve always been grateful for that, it truly is special. It’s changing very quickly today but that’s just how all things happen eventually.
It would be really cool to see Seattle covered. For me it always seemed like a really random place to be a major city. Cincinnati would be interesting as well, and if your willing to do smaller cities Casper, WY, would be really cool, definitely one of my favorite cities I’ve ever visited
I love Miami. If it wasn't for natural disasters, I wouldn't mind living there.
But because of that, it's one of my favorite vacation spots.
Great job Carter! Half way through and loving it.
Is this _Cities Explained - Miami_ ?
We see exactly what you just tried to do.
No shit
Great episode. You asked for suggestions for other cities. Given your intro, it seems like Denver and the other front range towns would be interesting.
for other places: Albuquerque, and other places that have been around for longer than the US has existed, would be awesome
If you do minneapolis/st paul I'll literally bust, pleeeese cover the Twin cities
This is the most comprehensive and insightful video about MIA I’ve ever seen.
Carter, you do such a good job on these long format videos. I always learn something new and you keep my attention throughout the videos. I can't wait for the next episode of this series 😃✌️
Miami has not been hit by a major hurricane since 1926. Andrew was Cutler Ridge south. The last significant storm to hit Miami was Wilma in 2005. I know I have lived here my whole life.
Let's go! Video on my favorite place in the country and my home! Miami is the magic city and the gateway to Latin America. I cannot wait to see how Miami will continue to grow and change as it feels already like a different city than the one I moved to in 2011.
The reason the Redland is uniquely undeveloped is because of the UDB (Urban Development Boundary). The UDB restricts development in agricultural areas in an effort to promote agriculture. Every 7 years the UDB goes in front of a board that determines if the UDB should be altered or remain the same.
Brilliant video, so interesting! I look forward to the rest of the series.
I look forward to you doing Seattle!
Love this video. You should do Nashville Tennessee next
This is my favorite YT channel when i travel i throw on a new vid and cruise. I sense you are a sociologist, historian and anthropologist at heart! Joshua tapping in from Baltimore Maryland
I'm admittedly biased because I live here, but the furthest major US city from Miami-- Seattle-- would be a great next stop. Absolutely fascinating and incredibly salient relationship to its geography. If you come in person I'd show you around! I also make geography content!
I love the US explained for highlighting places I didn’t know about that rarely get talked about. I would love this series to talk about “Middle America” cities- or cities that, for their size, get talked about disproportionately less on the national stage- places like Dallas, Houston, Memphis, Louisville, Milwaukee, Charlott. I’m from CA, and to take it as an example- you could do a video on LA or S.F., but it would be (in my opinion) so much better to do one on Fresno, Stockton, Bakersfield, or even less-discussed coastal and head-of-gov places like San Diego, San Jose, or Sac
It would be cool to see a video about Minneapolis/St Paul
Oklahoma City, please!
Great job! This was an informative and really enjoyable video while I cooked. I'm a Bahamian who has been traveling to Miami from before I could remember. It is great to hear in depth history! Thank you!
good job
really good job
St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago (5 hour vid there), god they're so many with interesting histories, you've got so much work to do.
That said I think, just because it's not a place most people would think of in this vein, Billings Montana would be a good project, it's way more interesting than you would expect and would be very informative because of its unfamiliarity.
As a person who lives in Southeast Broward, I would rather drive 50 miles north over 20 miles south. They both take the same amount of time, but going north I feel like I'm actually going somewhere. I have a best friend in Kendal, and it took a 45 minute trip 2 hours to complete just because of traffic.
I’d love to see Lexington, Kentucky.
I second this! I lived there for 6 years and miss it every day.
Amazing video. Of course, I have to suggest my home city of Charleston, SC. Indigenous, Spanish, English, French, Jewish, and especially Black history, all in one city.
My votes for a video on a modern day city state such as Singapore or Prague
Florida Atlantic coast line is almost a megalopolis but not Francis Ford Coppola's, that one sucks.
What an excellent intro to a new series!
If you've thought about doing an episode on two "sister cities" which I think would be excellent in this format, you should consider doing Pittsburgh and my hometown, the "Pittsburgh of the South" - Birmingham! Excited to see where this goes :)
I know theyre more the pioneers of Ft. Lauderdale, but I wish you mention the Stranahans. Frank and Ivy were very important to the area
Cincinnati. More than just the official city limits. Some locals consider everything inside the 275 loop as 'Cincinnati' which would include part of Indiana and Kentucky. East meets West before St. Louis, and where North met South.
I'd want to see Worcester, MA in this format!
Hi. I raised my son in Miami. worked there . 25 years as a nursing home director. I visited Baja in 1985, retired to San Felipe 4 years ago. It was a fishing village. Now 20k Americans are retired here in gated communities. Thats 50% of the population, 90 miles to the border. You can get an apt for $200 US. My house costs $400.
I lived in Miami for 6 years and really enjoyed this video!
As a local from Miami I can confirm this video. Living here most of my life and leaning abut its history my whole time here this info and history is pretty accurate
This is such a good idea for a series bro. Your content is so consistently top notch!!!
9:14+ Finally a video that correctly mentioned that Miami wasn’t built (at least at first) on a swamp! You even put in an image of Silver Bluff, where this higher limestone ridge meets, and was eroded by Biscayne Bay. Just started watching. Your videos are great, Thank you.
San Antonio, Texas. Its history is absolutely amazing.
I second this
Sounds like a snooze fest
New Orleans. It was the gateway to Central and South America before Miami. It's history is the sequel to this video.
It was such an amazing city. Now it seems to be ever in decline. I live fairly close to the city just on the border of the city limit. Nobody wants to live in the city itself anymore because it's just so overrun with drugs, gangs and homelessness and the tourist locations are too expensive for the average person. There's no middle class living in N.O. it's either very poor or the very rich live in the city limits. And the think it used to be the souths largest city!
More like the prequal
@@petalstar842 oh yeah I suppose that makes more sense!
@@danielwatcherofthelord1823 live here too and I see it, it's sad. Do you think this city will ever come back or it's done?
@@minimalistvlogger3467 it could come back. It would take the whole city ousting out all the politicians and leaders and completely replacing them with new people who are qualified and have definite proven ways to bring the economy of N.O. back and budget the balance so the city actually starts to have extra money rather than no money and get really tough on crime while promoting a family oriented culture. Will this ever happen!? I mean, I hope but it's a long way coming!
Santo Domingo. Oldest European settlement in the The Americas. It has a really interesting history.
Washington D.C. would be a great choice. There is tons to dive into about its founding and geography.
Hey Carter, I just wanted to let you know. I am very excited about this new series and can’t wait to see more content as well as the rest of your US explained series. I was wondering if you might be able to cover Charlotte North Carolina in an episode I also thought it might be neat to at least cover One major city in each state, but I’m sure you have a plan for how you want to do things as the series will expand. As always, keep up the great work you are one of my favorite RUclips channels.⭐️🇺🇸
Can’t wait for Minneapolis!!
Baltimore next pleaaaaase
Short answer is ports for coastal cities and rivers for in-land cities.
Knoxville!!! This series is going to be amazing!❤
Wow what a beautifully place 😮😮😮 watching here sending love and support done connect thanks for sharing
Awesome video, well done and researched. Keep this series going.
Do Charlotte
Hey, id love to see Oklahoma City!
Keep up the great work man
He started the video with Scissortail Bridge. At least its a cameo.
I like this ...make more
You did great with the states. Looking forward to your city series. This one on MIA was perfect. I live here. You nailed it
You should do my home town of Portland. It’s a hot bed and I would love to see your analysis on the place😉
Las Vegas would be interesting.
A lot of people don’t know much about the history of Vegas besides “ it was built by the mob” which is not exactly true
I'd love to see a video like this on Spokane (WA)
Parks: Kampong in Coconut Grove area, David Fairchild Dadeland/Pinecrest area ish, Oleta River State Park in the North Miami area
Miami didn't exist before Coconut Grove,FL 33133 The first city town that Miami adopted......
Do Kyiv next!
Please no. We've all had enough of Kyiv for a while.
Thumbs up if you´re from Miami
YEEEAAAAHHH BABY 305 WHERE KENDALL AT? WHERE SOUTH MIAMI AT? WHERE HOMESTEAD AT?? WHERE TAMIAMI AT??? SHOUTS OUT CUTLER BAY. SHOUTS OUT DORAL
SHOUTS OUT PINECREST
SHOUTS OUT HIALEAH (BOLLO DE PERRO)
305 all day!! 🌴
Born n Raised in the county of Dade
Chicago please! 🙏
Great video!!
Thank you for the info😊🎉
I would add a little bit more about Mary Brickell and Julia's influence in keeping Miami a good place for families to live.
Thank you it was great
best city in the world
not even the best in florida lmao
@@riowhi7 delusional
Great job! 👍
Do a video on Philadelphia
How about Boston?
Is this why you're not doing Florida explained?
Great video ❤
I absolutely need a video on Vegas
Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston are both bigger metros than South Florida. Can’t forget about Texas
These days even metro Atlanta is bigger. SEFL is just sandwiched between the ocean and the Everglades, with nowhere to spread anymore.
@@Dtownpapi_ Oh. Carter did mention South Florida is the 9th largest metro in 2023.
He also used the urbanized area defined by Census, which only counts the continuous high density census tracks. Since South Florida is pretty much one chunk of confined urban spread, nearly all its population is in one urban area. It was the 4th largest urban area.
Houston and DFW (ATL as well) are more spread out, some of the metro population are included in sone smaller urban clusters separated from the main core, or outright classified as rural.
@0:28 I don't live in Montreal but I recognize the view from Mount Royal.
it might be an oversight to uncouple Miami's status as an immigrant metropolis with its status as an LGBT haven (especially as it applies to domestic migration and internal refugee status).
It might also(?) be a good choice to leave that out of a "primer" video. But I don't know, the question of "why are cities where they are" boils down to "why do people live where they live" and some element of ethnography definitely should play a part
BRAVO!!
next time a miamian complains about ohioans, i’ll remind them that their city only exists because of ohioans.
I'm from South Florida and complain about Ohioans. So what Julia Tuttle is from Cleveland, I'm still going to complain about Ohioans, just because ONE person from Ohio founded the city I'm suppose to now give a pass to all Ohioans, that such stupid logic
@@BarnabyJones07 several ohioans, the guy who made the railroad is from new york but had significant ties to ohio. and the brickells are from ohio. you’d be a swamp outpost if it weren’t for ohioans and other northerners
The map at 19:09 without the Great Lakes is super cursed
Atlanta
you should do atlantic city nj
Best city in the states tbh.
You should look into Atlanta! Hard to find any other city who had shaped American culture more than atl
Can you do a series on Canada's provinces?
Great city
i would like to see cleveland it’s got a pretty interesting story
ATLANTA!!!
I'd love to see The story of a city: Dallas
Say what you want about Miami. But others stay fleeing to our city🥰. Born and raised in the county of Dade. 305 baby😛🥰💅🏾
Memphis
Good nonbiased video, full of interesting information. Thank you!!!
First view , first comment
Please make a state explained for WV
Los Angeles or San Diego
wooo i vote San Francisco is next!! i may be a bit biased bc I live nearby, but i love it so much and not just because it reminds me so much of NYC, where I used to live (I like to call SF Little Manhattan, like Little Italy/Chinatown, etc.) but there's just so much history and diversity, it would make an interesting contrast to Miami since it's a bit older in terms of foundation but a lot of the history is the same (with the exception of course being that SF was later eclipsed by a different city (or three) as the most populous in California) there's even an interesting parallel with Asia, the largest ethnic group in SF is Chinese and there's a very long and rich history of Chinese and Japanese and Filipino and generally Asian immigration, in addition to Latin American (mainly Mexican, later also Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Nicaraguan, etc.) immigration. I find it especially interesting that the most populous Latin American groups in Miami are Caribbean, whereas in SF, they're mainly Mexican/Central American. They also obviously have shared Native history in terms of genocide, though SF was completely transformed by the Gold Rush, whereas Florida was conquered almost as Jackson's pet project. There's also a shared history of rail connection, SF (okay, technically, Oakland) was the terminus of the transcontinental railroad, and there's also shared military history, SF was a major base in the Pacific theatre of the World Wars. Not being so biased though, I think LA, SJ, SD, LV, Phoenix, Albuquerque (+Santa Fe), Denver, and maybe even Portland and Seattle are all major contenders, just honestly most of the West, like west of the Mississippi, there's just so much luck and chance (and obviously, geography) that played into the development of what are today major cities. They didn't have the obvious benefits that port cities like Boston, Philly, NYC, Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, etc. had being literally on/near the Atlantic coast, or even those of Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Memphis, Detroit, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, etc. which were on major waterways which (eventually) connect to the Atlantic via boat, so I think places like Omaha, Salt Lake City, Cheyenne, Rapid City, Missoula, Coeur d'Alene or any of the other (relatively) large plains/mountains/pacific cities would be super interesting to learn about. In any case, another great video. Keep up the great work!
15:54 theres a melbourne in america?
Please do Charlotte or Atlanta
Do phoenix or Las Vegas