The Problem With America’s Next Megacity
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The reason so many people are building in Florida is because they know that climate change is, well, not exactly a hoax, but way exaggerated by the Marxists who rule the world.
Of course, this comment is wrongthink and will be shadow-banned or even deleted by You Tube shortly...
You are talking about a U.S. city on an American platform. Why are you using metric measurements??? In Florida nobody knows what 317 meters looks like or 148,000 square meters. We know what 1040 feet looks like and what 1.6M square feet of office space can hold. I don't understand why you won't gear your language to your audience.
Dreadful lot of inconsiderate people with more money and no brains .No kindness or considerations displacing all the seniors living the good life on Collins Avenue and the likes of.
They all worked all their lives to be there.
Now they are all probably pushed out by these Uber Snobbers and their self possessed unconscious natures.
They will soon see they are up to their ears in water as their money isn't something that can change the ocean.Vancouver, BC also with the
same situation built a sea wall that is causing more erosion than the natural disaster it was hoping the wall would resolve . And the world will watch and laugh and the appreciation of the development will drive up the value of investments and every building will be insured for all natural disasters.
This planned strategy will become the greatest heist ever...it will put all the insurance companies in a state of bankruptcy.
The flood plane information for the entire video is for the city of “Miami Beach” which is an island. The city of Miami is quite high except near the Miami River. Miami Beach and Miami are different cities.
The rise of Miami, or Atlantis as it'll soon be known.
Lmao my thoughts 😂
Na Atlantis was an advanced society
Rise of govt bailout for businesses that eventually will have that have to move because of sea level rise
@@neolithictransitrevolution427 Atlantis is a fairy tale.
@ No see, it was real see, in the Mediterranean sea, or maybe the black sea
Fun fact the buildings that you see currently are about the tallest that they will ever be since the FAA set a 1049 ft limit since the airport is in such close proximity. Miami have tried to up the limit but the FAA has been very strict and have not allowed them to.
People change Laws change
I'm amazed it's that high! I found out about the area being in the glidepath for MIA when visiting a friend many years ago who lived on the north side of downtown. It felt like the you could touch the landing planes.
@@2fyedarrin Laws never change back in favor of the airlines when it comes to the FAA.
@@UkrainianBazooka have you ever been to
Florida? Because I was born and raised in Gainesville fl where height restrictions just recently changed and in Daytona beach fl they also just raised the height limit these are not set in stone airplanes and building codes change as humans create more advanced technology and Florida is being forced to build up outside of its many suburbs if it wants to support itself
Must be tough to listen to the experts for a change.
Miami is a city that has always put profit first, tourists second, and infrastructure dead last. We have built a record number of highrise condo's in the last two decades but have only added ONE new elevated transit station to the cities metrorail. The transit system should have extended further south, further across the bay to Miami Beach, and more north-eats into areas along Biscayne Blvd. Extra buses, more trolly-like connectors, and an elevated line to Miami Beach would greatly reduce traffic along the causeways to the beaches.
Completely agree, miami politicians have completely ignored public transportation and the city will pay greatly for this in the coming future
As a life long miamian every penny put toward public transit is a waste. We should be expanding highways not building places for bums to congregate like in New York or San Francisco
only homeless or crazy people ride metro rail.
@@Mitch_Rogoff Yeah, people in Miami are too vain to take public transit. They would rather live with their parents and drive a BMW.
@@stupedcraig that’s actually incredibly culturally insensitive. It is traditional in Latino and Mediterranean households to have multigenerational households
I visited Miami for the first time this year, and I was the most shocked by how suburbanized it was for such as huge city. I talked to some people who lived there who commute 1 hour+ each way to work just because of traffic. I don't know how a "global city" can be so poorly designed.
From what I gathered, the city was not built properly to accommodate so many people and building high rises is not going to help that out. I’ve driven in south Florida in general and I almost feel like I’m witnessing car slavery with how dependent the area is on roads and driving. I bet the flooding wouldn’t be so bad if the concrete wasnt so invasive, the lack of greenery is sad.
One word: greed.
That's a standard bad design in North America
Weren’t designed as cities to begin with. Urban sprawl took place just because.
Everything in Florida apart from St Augustine, was designed as a vacation spot for the Uber wealthy of Victorian/Gilded Age and prior period. Then the poor who worked for the vacation spots needed a place to live. These became the first actual towns and cities. But it was sprawled.
Most historic neighborhoods in Florida were gentrified in the last 40 years, before then they were the “old poor neighborhoods”. So everything else was swamp land basically.
It is similar to the Netherlands in a way.🤷♂️
Because it was never meant to be a global city
Other than downtown's massive luxury condo towers, miami is almost all single family sprawl. Because there's an urban growth boundary, it really can't sprawl out nearly as much anymore. The rent crisis is really a density crisis because we have chosen to dedicate the vast majority of land in the metropolitan area to low density housing. We need to legalize missing middle housing
It totally sucks that this 'proposal' of yours will kill what Miami is and make it a tropical NYC concrete jungle.
@@lutab0507I woudlnt mind a mix, besides the sprawl gets old quick
@lutab0507 NYC is far better developed educated innovative and culturally diverse than Miami. If Miami becomes half of NYC - props to it.
I'm almost certain that companies like Amazon and Microsoft are well aware of the climate change risks to affect Miami in the coming 100 years. These companies are big enough to take advantage of the low taxes and cheaper property for short term gains but can easily relocate when the time comes. But I could be wrong so time will tell.
Fantastic video. I thought Miami was looking a lot more built up in recent videos, not the city that I remember from TV and movies back in the '80s, haha
I counted that 93% of all Miami skyscrapers were built since the year 2000 or later. So it really looked different back then.
old Miami is fast disappearing (my rent now 3800/m for a 1 bedroom). But you do have to wonder how much longer till the party ends. We already have street flooding pretty much every king tide now. Miami up to Ft Lauderdale building sea walls year round - but a decent size hurricane will destroy this city - and everyone just ignoring it.
You're totally right. All of these major companies will bail on Florida and (and Texas for that matter) as climate change gets worse and when employees complain about the lack of infrastructure and services. A lot will end back in the Northeast, but also the Gleat Lakes and Northwest. All places that are set to handle climate change better due to natural advantages. Governments in the north are more willing to build to combat climate change (near the ocean and inland), but really the natural climate and geography are what will protect it.
Interesting u said that , Im 35 and been visiting Miami since I was around 6, back then downtown Miami had a handful of high rises , nothing out of the ordinary, but in the last couple years, it’s been an explosion of High rises, so U ain’t the only one who noticed.
@@musicmanmatt87 will Tennessee be underwater too in the next couple years? I live near Nashville do I need to move now? Will Arizona be underwater too you said move to any place up north
Miami is built on porous limestone like most of the state. The water just rises from the ground with the tide. No ocean wave needed. Look up "Miami king tide".
I lived in Miami my whole life and worked at a real estate development company in downtown. We developing high rises in brickell . There is NO CONERN for the environment or climate change.
sounds about right for Floriduh I here their expanding development in to the Everglades soon
@@ShantalhaitianPrincess and as a result also putting the water supply in jeopardy. Also, we highly depend on nuclear energy and Turkey Point Nuclear Power plant has not been able to come up with a possible solution to clean up the Nuclear waste in Biscayne Bay, another aquifer in South Floroda.
Good. That means California hasn’t infected you yet. You may get by with somewhat pricey housing instead of astronomically expensive.
That’s right and Brickell is in the top 3 in that area of the flood zone
Don't worry, like all red states do, they'll cry for "woke crt communist socialist" blue states to bail them out again
I have lived in Miami the majority of my life and the current situation is alarming. Lots of traffic and wealthy people moving in, Miami is not what it used to be. Our culture has changed dramatically and locals are forced to move further from the city due to a high increase of rent up to 50% since pre COVID while wages remain stagnant. Truly unsustainable. You can feel the gentrification all over the city specially Little Haiti, Wynwood and Overtown. I miss my city, or at least what it used to be. It’s starting to not feel like home anymore…
That's how I feel about NYC.
As someone from Seattle, I can understand. All the new development is exciting at first, but a decade later, the city feels like a shell of itself. The curse of the tech bros!
I had 4 simultaneous contracts on my condo, I di-di’ed the f*ck outta there to Central Florida
Rich people and blacks always ruin beautiful cities
What's so bad about gentrification?... i'd rather live in a cleaned up neighborhood full of modern businesses and new housing than one filled with trap houses.
You need to talk about the problem with single family zoning in Miami, the reason why rent has increased so drastically is in part due to transplants, but another variable is that upwards of 93% of south Florida is zoned for single family housing.
We need more multi-use "missing-middle" housing to keep up, but that is just not profitable so the poors are forced to move, this losing the cultural identity of their neighborhoods, I.E. Little Haiti and how it's being gentrified as wynwood expands.
people here will never understand that .....
I agree! single family house took up 99% of the available land. Now we have to tear down blighted houses and do mixed use developments asap!
1000000%
That is EXACTLY right, which is why Dallas has been on a high density multi-use building boom because these kind of developers have been given the green light. It allows lower income groups to live downtown by keeping rents down. Miami city council is all about the wealthy old farts.
the poors😂😭
Miami isn't going anywhere unless they can get a handle on their transportation infrastructure. Miami traffic is already insane. A friend of mine who used to live there left after an incident in which he got stuck in gridlock and took 9 hours to go 3 miles. And this kind of gridlocked traffic is a daily occurrence in Miami. In order to gain the status of a "major city" Miami will have to vastly improve mass transit to give people options other than cars to go anywhere.
Miami isn't alone. Transportation is an issue in every city outside of New York wit no fix anytime soon. The roads and transit systems should have come before all those new high-rises.
@@krane15 And retrofitting cities is both difficult and expensive.
How??? They can't build mass transit underground!
@@freeffree4133 Oh, I know it. Florida does not have the geology for large underground transit projects. This means the only way to construct a grade separated mass transit system is to go elevated. Elevating the mass transit infrastructure is expensive, but not as expensive as tunneling through waterlogged limestone karst.
LA seems to make it work
The aerial shots in this video are incredible. I was born in Miami in the 80's and saw all these different evolutions. This latest one, by far, seems the most frenzied.
This is a video I never thought I’d see. These buildings are in my backyard! Most videos are places I’ve never been. However I walk by these buildings weekly. The flooding is a real issue. Whenever we get large storms, many streets get insanely flooded.
Mr. A, please study something called gravity. When you understand the subject, you will know why Miami's streets flood. It has nothing to do with AOC's climate gods hating on the earth.
Like hurricane level flooded. Brickell in particular will always drown a few cars every heavy rain.
Same bro I was raised here and currently live here
@@brandonstarkand Bro, I can tell Bro. 😂
@@fvckingtest bro its weird to see miami become what its become and get these kind of youtube docs bro
It blows my mind how low miami is ranked for biggest cities. It looks pretty big. I went last year and fell in love with the vibe
It's deceiving because the city of Miami (where a lot of the metrics come from) is super tiny but really dense. The metro area on the other hand is huge and pretty sprawled
@@SebastianCaballero small because of administrative boundaries. NYC has Brooklyn Bronx Queens too its not just Manhattan but Miami didn't amalgamate its immediate suburbs.
They usually don’t count all the other cities that attached to Miami… there’s really no stop of a city from homestead to west palm… it’s all a big city
Miami sucks, full of shallow people
@@ArturoVilchez92 They should amalgamate , I think. Miami is a big world class city now - it needs to be seen as a big city.
I live in Miami and just with 2min of rain it floods really bad…Also the rent went up really high I went from paying 1800 for 2/1 to 2950 for the same room..a lot of people moved to Miami and traffic got really bad traffic before starts at 5 and now it starts at 2 is super crowded but I’m born and raised in Miami and I love Miami but these new people that moved to Miami are killing Miami
I'm sure there's more traffic in Miami due to population increase but the increase in mid-day traffic is something that has happened in all cities due to more people working from home and running errands during the day.
Miami-Dade County as a whole is super car dependent, so that's a major factor too.
@@gnnascarfan2410 true. miami is a place where if you take the metrorail the locals would call you poor. seriously needs improvement. and cheaper rent.
I’m 20 minutes north of downtown in one of those outer-burds to which the video is referring. Rent didn’t soar here but it took a wallet impactful jump. The problem is that Ft Lauderdale is also growing though not nearly as fast, but noticeably fast, and that’s impacting us for two reasons. Firstly, the spillover impact from Miami. Secondly, to Ft Lauderdale we are not an outer-burb but a suburb, so that growth has a direct impact. However, flooding isn’t as much of an issue with Ft. Lauderdale bc it’s downtown is more inland and doesn’t sit on the water, aside from the Ft Lauderdale river.
@@Notpublic4719 But the day is coming when if you take the Metrorail you will be considered rich because high tides will make some roads impassable
I think the best solution for MIAMI is to build a sea wall using mangroves, its cheap , reliable and eco-friendly
Live in Miami
You can see the construction and yeah… there has been a boatload of growth here in my 22 years of life
When I saw the title, I envisioned skyscrapers on stilts. Perhaps this is what it will come to.
A city on the rise while sinking beneath the rising waves.
A curious dichotomy.
Such an Irony
Climate change isn't real.
US should build more sea barriers like here in Holland, no need to cut off the ocean with retractable dams, but the cost of that will probably astronomical, but it saves the city
Sea Barriers can't save Miami unfortunately. It's built on sand and the water would just seep through.
@@julm7744 still better than nothing .
@@joestein6603 See the first reply... florida is a swamp, the water will just come up through the ground. Unless the whole state is elevated it will be underwater.
Miami is built on swamplands friend, hell Miami isn't even that old compared to the rest of American cities.
The cost of that wouldn't be economical -- the thing that is attracting so many people and businesses to the city.
My childhood growing up in Miami was fun and have no regrets. It's a party city no doubt. I moved out of there about 6 years ago, which I'm glad I did. Traffic is horrendous and keeps getting worse, too many people, and life is expensive. Just a great place now to visit IMHO. It will be if not already, a place only the rich can afford unless you already own your home there.
its starting to get unaffordable even for the people that own
interesting insight always thought this place was full of high end house's but its only just started
Miami traffic has gotten way worst over the past 10 years. I remember in 2018 it took me 20 minutes to get from my house to work, now it takes me an hour due to traffic. The cities roads that were built years ago did not anticipate for the population increase to become so dramatic.
Lol… they have been saying Maimi and NYC would be underwater in 10 years, for over 100 years now… there is zero change in 100 years.
Yes don't believe the media...
I was born and raised in Miami and never thought I would be a victim of this lol. My family relocated to about 1 hour away from Miami due to rising cost of living.
to where? the kendall?
@@danmcclaren5436 nah Coconut Creek.
I live in Clewiston and there’s a lot of Miamians moving here and Labelle *too
@@johnflores9915 yep I've considered Clewiston and Labelle too. Maybe I'll join the next swamp cabbage festival lol
Where’s the best affordable places to live in Florida right now? I’m from Texas & plan on moving to Florida. Its always been my dream to live there. I Love the beaches, vibe & culture over there so we’ll see.
"if the city will be around in the next decades..." I've been hearing that sea level rising bs since i moved to Miami in 1993 when hurricane Andrew hit. The only things rising are the house prices and the skyscrapers closer to the coast.
Amazon already left two planned areas in Miami and built structures in Port St. Lucie about 2.5hrs north. I actually lived in Brickell once and while it was fun being downtown in the middle of everything it was blistering hot even at night and things were laughably expensive. You got to be very very wealthy to enjoy Miami
Living in S. Florida is getting crazy. This place needs a public transit network similar to NYC
Short term profit, after that the developers don’t care
Developers: the effect will come after 50 years ! Who cares i would be dead by then
Need profit now
Yep, that's Florida.
Back in the sixties it was a funky smallish town. All the things that once attracted me to the state have now been paved over our built on. I don't know that I will ever return.
I live in Miami and flooding is REAL bad. Like if it drizzles, it floods.
Sounds similar to new Orleans🤔‼
What part of Miami do you reside in? Have you been in Miami for a long time?
South Florida native here. Beautiful aerial footage but there's a huge problem with building seawalls in Miami and Miami Beach, the water table is just below the surface and instead of rising over the walls, the water actually bubbles up from the ground. This is now a big problem in Downtown Miami as well, especially during unusually high tides. It will only get worse. I'm astounded that the building boom is continuing since we know what is coming. I would be very curious to see what the city looks like in 2067, but I won't be here by then.
Hopefully you achieve all Goals,Dreams, & Everything else b4 2067 💯🗽💹🫡
I'll be here in 2067 I'll let you know what it's like
@@qr5964
It'll be fine. 😊 We've been hearing climate alarmists since the '60's. We're all going to die in 10 yrs... every 10 yrs... for 60 yrs. Not ONE prediction has come true. Florida will still be great. 😊🌴🍊🏖🇺🇸🙏🏼💞
"Unusually high tides" will be the norm very soon. A direct hit from a hurricane, and what will those millions do without electricity and running water?
I love watching these, also so informative. I always learn a lot. 👏
I live in Miami. One time I was eating dinner with friends and it started to rain A LOT. We spent about an hour and when we started to leave the entire Brickell downtown area was flooded I’m talking about a 1-2 feet of water EASILY. I saw a mustang completely submerged. The drainage system is not designed well.
I can agree the drainage is horrendous. But Remember our homes is on a swamp so the dirt is already full of water. Once it rains its very easy to flood, Thats why places like Miami Lakes, Hialeah, Tamiami, Homestead, etc Flood so easily because that was all swamp, im not sure about Downtown Miami though.
It's too hot there. Too steamy. Literally like a steam shower year around. I used to go there every winter, great food, Italian , but it's uncomfortably hot just to play golf or something.
2:07 I live there for 10 years so far grew up here in Sunny Isles Beach and I feel so privileged and happy for it.
7:57 If a 0.9m height difference is worth $100,000s what does it cost to dump 0.9m of hardcore over a site before you build there?
It won't do you much good if your home ends up an island surrounded by flood waters.
Regular flooding is a feature of Miami.
Refer to : “Increasing flooding hazard in coastal communities due to rising sea level: Case study of Miami Beach, Florida,” was published in the June 2016 issue, Vol. 126 of the journal Ocean and Coastal Management. The study’s authors include: Shimon Wdowinski, Ronald Bray and Ben P. Kirtman from the Rosenstiel School (Miami University ; and Zhaohua Wu from Florida State University.
Not a long term location - short term (5 to 10 years) and take the tax breaks and prepare to run !
20 minutes of rain & you can’t see the curb when driving 😑😂
i've been watching a particlar place in miami for over 40 years and it has not risen an inch.
This is the begging of the end of Miami. Crime is raising, drug use, drunk people and traffic is getting worse. I am leaving soon. I, enjoyed for the last 20 years a peaceful and beautiful Miami. Searching for another little beautiful town to have peace and quality of life. RIP Miami.
Damn homie you read my mind. Everything you said was accurate. I’m from Miami as well (Little Haiti) I enjoyed it all my life too, now it’s time to get the fuck outta here!! lol the people are getting worse here I will be moving just like you
Quarterly profit draws the corporations in, and that’s all they think about. The quarter after that? They might have a new CEO by then.
Can these buildings survive hurricanes like Hurricane Ian that just came through SW Florida? I mean Fort Myers Beach is a field now and so many houses got destroyed from one hurricane it kinda made me want to leave Florida idk if I'd be investing all of my money in Miami skyscrapers..
They can survive it, problem is if the infrastructure around the buildings survives like the roads or fresh water resources, gas and electricity.
@@agonzgonzalez7748 Whole hotels and condos built within the last few years are nothing but a field of sand now, I wouldn't be so confident in saying they would still be standing if the same happens to Miami
Hurricanes will be bad, but salt water incursion will be worse. The entire Florida peninsula is porous limestone. As the sea level rises, the water table will rise and get saltier. Foundations for buildings and bridges are going to corrode. Buried infrastructure will corrode and get flooded. It is like a forest where all the trees' roots are being killed by a disease. It is just a question of what finally brings it all down: insurance companies with chainsaws or a hurricane.
@@phupduc239 Those new hotels and condos were supposed to be able to withstand Ian if they were built to Florida hurricane building code. What happened?
@@JonMartinYXD and we all know what happened to Champlain South
Miami: A city that is both rising and sinking at the same time.
Great video. I'd love to see one about the massive building boom in philadelphia
And contrary to what this video says, the Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia will still be the tallest building on the East coast outside of NYC, and will remain the tallest building in the US outside of NYC or Chicago.
Look at those Florida Men go.
lol
As someone who lives in Miami I’ve seen this change happen in front of me just after Covid it’s actually insane this video feel so personal to me cause I live in little and in the past fives years I’ve seen the gentrification happen in Front of me
Only beacuse Miami was the only state open during covid lol so ofc people flocked there
.....miami is not a state
@@niceandflyy Good, what a filthy city
@@Pomagranite167 Miami Dade is not a state but we are pretty different from the rest of Florida. Like a great philosopher said Miami is in a state of its own thing. 😂
@@ellenripley4837 everybody is the same regardless. I've seen some difference and some the same. Miami is not a state.
I was born and raised in Miami and it’s crazy to see how the cost of living has skyrocketed. Your almost forced to work 2 jobs to survive nowadays
that's allways' been a thing for you poor people in miami.
@melonbobfulwell paid city employees. poor people are just a drain on society.
Miami needs either a subway or elevated tram. You cannot keep packing new mega skyscrapers in a place but have no way to get around.
there's been an elevated train there for 30 years.
But its only in the downtown@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodic128
My favorite city will be underwater in a couple of decades😢 and I don’t even live there😭
No it won't 😅😅😅
More like struggling with flooding for the next couple of decades and if a large hurricane hits then it will go under. Maybe in 80 years it will be on the verge of water world, no one knows.
It was supposed to be underwater by 2015
The funny thing is that Miami is not at the center of it's own metropolitan area. Fort Lauderdale is. Most of the best real estate is over an hour north in Boca Raton and Palm Beach.
I love miami and wish I could move there but rent prices are ridiculous and I feel bad for the working class there
Good stay where you are
Most don’t live in Miami proper, homestead is technically a giant suburb of Miami. Zoning laws.
@@nobilesnovushomo58 I was looking at hollywood specifically
@@HombreWithAnOmbre There are several options under $200K for purchase with 2 bedrooms 1-2 bathrooms between 900-1400 sq. ft. if you wanted to try for the down payment, but none of them are on the ocean if that's what your going for on Zillow, pay to lock in rate. Renting is a money loser. Just no liberal politics causing NYC and LA prices pls.
I currently live in a small hotel converted to an apartment building in Little Havana, but the rent keeps getting higher and higher every year and I'm still stuck in a studio. I like the area, but what I live in and how I'm currently doing is not helping make a good business case.
I overheard the building owner hatching a plan to price out the current residents and then sell the building (And the land accompanying it) at a profit. It might be converted to luxury condos in less than a few years.
It's working. I can't afford to renew this lease and I'm moving out by April, where? I don't know yet. Evaluating Central FL at this rate because I like the state.
- Yours truly, a Venezuelan migrant.
Central Florida is expensive too
come to broward, its more affordable and calmer than miami.
All climate-wary eyes should be on Florida, and especially Maimi, this century.
Companies are building expecting to get 20-30 years out of it and then write off the loss, completely ignoring the needs of the people who need to work in these buildings. Miami's going down. Building there is such a waste of resources.
I grew up in Miami Beach in the 1950s and 60s. It was the best of times. Miami has lost its soul.
If you were wealthy and white. The 50s was a boom, similar to what is going through right now. Towards the end of the 60s, that boom has begun to wane.
I wish I would have been able to see Miami in the 50’s, and the rest of the country when it was good 😢
A very interesting insight into buiilding for our future and also highlighting what will be done to tackle climate change.
Except they're not doing anything to tackle climate change. The entire Florida peninsula is made of porous limestone. Sea level rise won't just be seen in waves coming over the beaches, but also coming up into every basement. All the buried infrastructure and foundations are going to be exposed to salt water. Miami will die from below.
Should've kept the iconic Vice City signs and logos. Miami Dade transit had the coolest liveries I've seen on a bus. Miss the old Miami 😔
I love Miami and travel there every year. I love it and I love seeing the architecture and how different it is from Atlanta.
Which one is better ?
@@ahmedzakikhan7639 Miami. Don't consider living in Atlanta.
@@ahmedzakikhan7639 Atlanta, by far. Half of Miami is owned by absentees, people who are never there. Those apartment/condo towers are occupied for very short periods of time each year, empty otherwise. Atlanta is a real city, Miami a glitzy façade.
@@jm-bv1wh Miami reminds me of Dubai.
The biggest hedge fund and market maker from Chicago just moved to Miami, Citadel
From day 1 Miami has always been a city of extremes. If you research its history you will see that's actually an understatement. Miami has always been dramatically changing ever since it was born. From its people to its infrastructure to its climate to its landmarks to its culture to its food to its language. It's not called the magic city for no reason.
Dumb take……
@@jema5039He’s not wrong.
I love Florida from January to April, but absolutely don't want to live there between July and November!
A snowbird in the making.
I wanna be there all year
Go back North.
@@marknewton6984 I don't need to "go back," because I'm one of millions who don't visit FL at the moment. There are plenty of other beautiful places to visit!
It's also known as the Capitol of Latin America since so many companies have located their HQ their for Latin America.
It's literally "yeah we want to move our businesses here because there are like no laws. We can do whatever we want, lots of corruption, 10/10 best state ever!" and they be expecting people to just eat it up too. Sad part is they do
Is it an article on Miami or on NordVPN ?
I like how miami is built like a town its so charming damn climate😔
And you would be surprised how corrupt and crime-ridden Miami is. So not too charming on many levels.
Yeah I see Miami is coming up but you should talk about other cities too Charlotte Richmond which are getting high-rise buildings and also my home City Newark New Jersey which is getting something called the Halo towers which is 60 stories tall Atlanta is coming up too.
I’ve lived in Miami up until 8th grade and lemme tell you the flooding is already very bad one time the water literally made the street uncrossable it was just a mini lake up to the stairs of my house I really don’t wanna see Miami go though it’s better off than other cities but our zoning is gonna ruin it my uncle already lives in his bedroom cause of cost of living in glad I moved away but I really wish I could’ve stayed
In the next few decades, this documentary will age like milk because of rising sea levels and massive hurricanes. The only reason why Miami was a popular destination in the first place was because of its tropical climate. Real estate prices and cost of living in the Miami area has already skyrocketed and almost rivals California and New York now.
Nah New York City is rlly bad😭
@@rinc_1013 at leat they pay you in NY here in Florida the minimum wage was $7.28 two years ago and they just upped it to $11 last month yet we have rents in poor neighborhoods that are $1800 for a 2/2 $2800 for a 2/2 in a relatively ok area
Climate change is cyclical
@@ShantalhaitianPrincess those higher wages don’t go very far in NYC or LA. doesn’t make much of a difference
@@alicelong3613 better than here in Florida thats why I'm leaving this place and going to New Jersey or Chicago tried San Diego but housing was the same as Florida pay was better but the weather was worse and it was more crowed.
Picture this: Miami, the Venice of USA. City of canals, and crocodiles.
Well I’d think San Antonio is the city of Canals in America. They have over 50 miles of them thru the downtown and still expanding it
@@Josiahpapayas Not trying to burst your bubble but while they are less attractive I can't overstate the extensiveness of the canal system down here, the city's kinda carved up cause a lot of the west side was dredged out of marsh
there are no crocodiles in Venice (Italy) 🙂
@@AndreaZzzXXX but there are crocodiles in South Florida.
@@georgiaguy12 Alligators mostly. Never saw a crocodile down here.
Not to worry. Florida’s mighty governor can hold back the ocean with his sheer force of will.
🤣🤣🤣
Miami is supposed to be underwater already if you were alive and have a memory good enough to remember Al Gore.
Governor Ron "King Canute" DeSantis!! 😝
@@theonlylolking they don’t want to hear that
Born and raised here in Dade County. I Don't know what this place we call home is becoming. Aside from the crime, I miss what it used to be.
It’s actually become more crime ridden.
On barrier islands Miami should build mangroves which slow down the flow of water in a more effective way than a surge barrier.
Florida’s water table itself is too low so new development in Miami should have to raise the foundation a certain amount along with some roads being raised if possible. Older developments that are protected may need more careful modifications
Can mangroves grow in that climate? Tbh the extent to which I know about mangroves comes from Minecraft lmao
@@glowerworm As it turns out, yes! South Florida is a tropic climate and thus can sustain mangroves. There are even native Florida specific mangrove species
They grow Mangroves in a park called Oleta State Park, it’s huge park in North Miami and beautiful, I’ve been raised and lived next to it my whole life so I know
You can’t build mangroves.
@glowerworm As a florida native, not can- they do lol. Mangroves are everywhere.
True story: Florida Real Estate speculators want Little Haiti, which Haitian immigrants began settling in the 1970s. But, by the _very names_ of their limited liability corporations- *Vulture Property Investments, Strictly Profits, and World Domination Enterprises,* to name a few-investors seem more interested in Little Haiti’s high ground than its people. Floridians have no shame.
Do you really think that attitude is limited to Floridians?
Little Haiti began changing the Instant the INS shuttered their building at Biscayne Blvd & 79St. Remember, Cubans benefited from “wet foot, dry foot”, but Haitians had to apply to stay and work in the USA. So, they gathered and lived near the INS building.
Important to touch on the city’s downtown homeless encampments
So exactly how hurricane proof are those high rise buildings?
Crockett & Tubbs would be furious having to wear wellies and waders as they drive through the streets of Miami!
They would have water skied thru it!
A lot of people moving to Florida will flee after a few years because of the heat. I'm leaving, half of the year is just unbearably hot. People always say "its better than winter up north!" but it really isn't, the heat is brutal
Lies. The facts aren't in your favor. The population of Florida is increasing not decreasing you genius.
Yes, I live in Finland where we have a relatively cold/cool climate year-round and I was always intrigued about a warmer climate, like the tropics, always thought how great it would be to have summer all the time... Until I actually visited the tropics. It is a punishment to live in such temperatures and humidity.
@@nikokapanen82 And then then there's the bugs and mosquitos.
This! People think it’s nice for 9 months out of the year and then you put up with some heat in the summer. No. Miami has the best weather in the world from about mid November to mid February. You might extend that by a week or two on each side depending on the year.
The rest of the time you are boiling in 93% humidity. People don’t realize how miserable it is to sweat profusely at 10pm in April.
@@SKa-tt9nm I just LOVE walking outside at 3:30 in the morning and getting greeted with 93 degrees and 95% humidity
To Floridas credit, building codes were revised after hurricane Irma, and will probably strengthen codes to Ian
Hmmm. Sounds a lot like regulations. Don't Republicans hate that? 🤣
Great Video. However I noticed an error, at 5:43 you show a small video of Houston, Texas expanding its outer suburbs due to high rents closer into the city. However that is not true for Houston, it is not because of the rent prices.
Houston swells because it can. It's flat, and there are few geographical barriers to spreading out in all directions.
No public transportation, terrible traffic, terrible food, terrible service.
I lived in the Netherlands, a part of which is BELOW sea level. They solved it.
Miami couldn't replicate what the Netherlands has done...the Netherlands have harnessed the sea for a long time through their dike systems. Miami doesn't have a comparable system, the soil is different in Miami (porous limestone), and Miami is subject to huge hurricanes unlike the Netherlands.
The bigger problem is the city isn’t sufficiently accommodating the population increase in density (no land) and public transportion (still need a car for most of South Florida). The downfall is coming
Miami . . America's next Mega Cesspool.
us here in miami man, we love where its going, and we work our asses off to keep it pushing!
Same as New York and London
Absolutely right however we're also on a pretty flat peninsula so water comes from three sides
Its worth noting that not only is Miami going to flood soon, so will its freshwater source in the Everglades/lake Okeechobee as Florida Bay spreads north.
All South Florida water is sourced from aquifers. No one wants swampy everglades water lol anyway it's a National Park
THAT is incredibly frightening.
@@johnperic6860 It absolutely is. Millions of gallons of drinking water is pulled daily from Lake Okeechobee. It is not a water source for Miami though, which gets the vast majority of its water from the Bisqayne aquifer.
Doesn't change the fact that these aquifers are at extreme risk for saltwater intrusion and have already started to dry up in areas.
when? just for future reference
@@MikeWoot65 Put your money into some property and find out. But all the models have been underestimating the observed change
I live in Miami . We were just driving by Brickle and South Beach , the skyline has changed so much. I was thinking how in one building ex toilet flushing and so fourth. Scary
Usage guides advise that 'farther' is for physical distance and 'further' is for figurative distance
You should consider a video on Manchester, the city is growing fairly quickly, in no means is it the lead but it’s quickly closing in on making Manchester the UK second biggest city
David Beckham still living in Manchester ❓
Birmingham has 1.1 million whereas Manchester has 560,000 people. Still a long way to go for Manchester to reach 2nd place.
@@lj6109 Birmingham is a lot bigger of a place, Manchester is quite small in comparison, greater Manchester has the same sort of area as Birmingham with a higher population
I appreciate that your videos have started acknowledging the elephants in the room the last year or two. It would have been nice to hear about the negative effects of these COVID and tax policies that are bringing people to the city.
Do people choose where to live based on Covid policy? Taxes sure.
@@Windows13 I think rich people did at that time. I was referring to the negative consequences of that policy, such as, you know, death
Miami had the country's highest rate of covid infections over two different time periods due the government's lax policies. This could have been easily prevented, but the wanna-be Hitler in Tallahassee was more concerned about money than people's lives. I'm in the suburbs and thankfully most people in my area had enough common sense to at least wear masks in public. Still, over half of the people in my neighborhood had it at some point. We have so many visitors coming into the area on a constant basis bringing their diseases that once something gets brought in, it spreads quickly.
@@misterscottintheway considering it has lower deaths than other places with much stricter rules, I don’t see anything wrong.
@@xaviercopeland2789 cool story bro
It has become impossible to live here. People no longer drive cars, they driving scooters.
im glad someone has said it, housing cost is unrealistic. Not very easy asking for $4k a month from your job because rent is $2k a month being the new norm...
Man, I've wanted to visit Miami for almost a decade now... I have a feeling, that, when I'm finally able too, it won't be the Miami I've always wanted to see....
You should still go visit but just keep in mind it’s def not the same chill laid back beach metro it used to be. I visited Miami every year since before COVID & even after COVID. There’s a huge difference & I don’t like it anymore at all. The culture has changed & it’s not in a good way. Also you should still go just to go. The beaches are beautiful & the water feels good to be in.
I love Florida, but part's of Florida may disappear in the future due to rising sea levels. What a bummer.⚠️
I dont think it will disappear, They already are talking about little mongrove trees out in the coasts, and sea walls to keep the water out! But I just worry about the beaches because Florida is popular because of its beaches and if thats taken away then Florida's economy will do a domino effect and crumble,
@@aaroncoolsixty I guess time will tell as they say...
A way to prevent development where it is unwarranted is for the governments' of Florida and Federal to declare that they will not be the insurance of last resort for environmentally related disasters. It will be up to private insurance.
Very interesting
Miami seems like it would be a cool place to live if you were younger and didn't have a family to raise or you had loads of cash. I don't think I would try to raise a family there.
I live in Miami and we are gonna need a metro system very soon! not the metro rail or metro mover, but an actual subway system. There's like 100+ apartment buildings being built with massive parking podiums that can hold 500 cars each!
cities that are prone to flooding do not work well with underground subways
@@maniaclatdisciple that's not true at all. Amsterdam has been fighting the ocean for centuries and they're doing just fine with their metro. Especially with the technology available nowadays if Miami were to make one brand new today
It’s impossible for Miami to have an underground metro since we are right at sea level. We can’t even have basements!
@@gigi3839 who lied to you? Lol. Anything is possible with the right design
@@maniaclatdisciple not true at all. There’s ways around it
I live in Miami. Tons of skyscrapers. It’s like the New York City of the south
yeah but it's going to be underwater soon.
God, I’m so happy I lived in Brickell from 2016-2021… when it was just as vibrant and remarkably more affordable