Title says it all, local here, moved away.. what happened to this city?
It used to be fun, laid back, chill. Then covid happened, Miami was pretending to be like NYC without the stuff and now the city has zero soul. We've become a Temu version of a standard American city.
Have you noticed that most of the companies that moved here do so symbolically? Most of the talent is not even in the city and remains in NYC, Boston, LA, SF, Chicago and so on. It's pathetic that we doubled down on Crypto and that went belly up, but even all this "Miami tech" b.s and "Wall Street South" is a scam, our city is just being used to dodge taxes and not hire locals.
All these condos built just for AirBnB's and speculators... also not new but half of downtown is empty with these units, when it could be for us locals. I don't give a flying s*** about a supertall downtown, what benefit does that give us? $200 sushi restaurants in a city with 0.2% Asians won't cut it.
Our city is a banana republic for the elite to park their money at our expense. There's zero benefit to a rich dude buying a $200M mansion and they just live here for three months. It's sad how this city just continues to go on with being a city of speculation, grifters and the elite, while you price out the people who gave Miami a soul in the first place.
I'm really sad that our city is a sell out. But hey, at least we get a bridge that continues to get delayed :/