u/Shoddy-Hovercraft986

At the risk of this being backhanded I want to preface this by saying all my closest friends are Black Americans and I’m only commenting based off of my experiences.

I’ve noticed that black people here in Fort Lauderdale are a lot friendlier towards other races than pretty much anywhere I’ve lived. When I say this I mean stranger to stranger level friendliness and not necessarily friends. Do others share this same experience? My theory is because Fort Lauderdale is a melting pot and we’re all forced to live together and a lot of black people here come from a Caribbean/west indies background so they act less entitled than people in the Midwest that don’t step outside of their comfort zones and interact with people that aren’t similar to them.

Maybe I’m reading to deep into it but I wanted to emphasize people here have been really good to me so far. Can’t say the same about the entitled transplants and immigrants in Miami. Locals in both places that actually grew up here are great

25 year old male - I want to start planning my own going away party in September and I’m open to any ideas. I currently live in lakeview and we normally frequent Lakeview/LP/Old town area when we go out if that helps. I’m looking for somewhere that could likely host 50+ if you have any ideas. I’m assuming more people than that will come but we’ll see.

I’m open to:

- All you can drink deals with wristbands where everyone pays their own entry

- committing to hitting a certain minimum for the reserved space. For better or for worse we like to drink a good amount so we’ll be able to hit any $$ amount

Maybe there’s other options out there too that I haven’t seen so I’m open to other ideas as well. Just figured those were the easiest routes to having a private or semi private space. I don’t particularly want to pay anything out of my own pocket upfront

What bars would you reccomend me reaching out to? Would love to hear any experiences with doing something similar as well.