Its been about a year and a month or so since we relocated from Chicago. We live in Homestead Fl, we’re about 35min from South Beach. When I tell people I live in Homestead they’re like “where?” So when I tell them we are about 35min from South beach they’re like “OHHHHHH”. I gotta admit I really like living here. At first I was really city sick. I missed the city chaos and all its chaotic people. But then I realized the city has its own shenanigans. It gets Africa hot at times, and the mosquito’s are like construction workers digging for oil, but the winters here are freakn amazing! The evening skies are an amazing work of art all the time. We try and head up to the beach on the weekends. So far I have to say South Beach is the nicest beach near us. Yeah, its a little wild with the nudists, drag queens, and other freakish people around, but the water is great, the sand is amazing and the nearby shops are really cool. That’s what you go to the beach for anyway isn’t it? Sheesh. Unless there is an amazing beach nearby we know not about…
Cafe con leche is everywhere and anytime and not having one, definitely makes you an outcast. Cuban food and seafood is a must. Mexican food? There are a few joints that are slam’n. Pizza? none…still searching. The keys are but 40min away, Key West about 2hrs. It is an amazing drive t Key West. You are literally in the middle of the road splitting the Atlantic ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Christmas is what you make of it. There is no snow here, so Christmas feels slightly weird at first, but you make the best of it. Last year we had one day that hit about 30 degrees, it was freezing. Our blood has definitely thinned out since we moved out here, cause when it hits below 50degrees I am freezing. All in all we love Miami and have no plans of leaving for a very long time. Unless God decides to take us somewhere else. One thing is for sure, no more cold seasons for me anymore. If I leave here, send me to California or Texas. No more cold cities. Don’t get me wrong Chi-town. I love you lots, and you are one of the most magnificent cities ever, but for now it is what it is, and Miami is the caca!
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July 11, 2008 at 9:51 am
[...] Jesse talks about his time here in Miami, his expectations moving from Chicago, and declares that he loves it! [...]
July 11, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Gotta love it here, if you move here during the summer and survive. By the time, November rolls around, the tropical nights and sunny days can make the most ardent northerner love southern livin’.
Dad pastored in Miami in the fifties when the Ol’Atom-splitter was in elementary school. We had no AC in the house or in the car. There was a 36″ attic fan in ceiling of the hall that removed the hot air at night. Before the night was over you had to cover up with a quilt or at least the bedsheet. We left all the windows and the doors open with nothing between us and a home-invasion robbery but screened doors and windows.
Granddad, R.P. Johnson, lived in Hialeah. He and Grandmother, Sallie Mae, did the same thing.
No problema! No one ever broke in our houses.