owlcountry40
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RE: Football in paradise
(08-21-2017 10:11 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote: What are you guys really arguing?
What's the least awful part of Florida?
Yea, I will take a state with beaches, beautiful women and a million things to do at anytime many other places.
People come to live here for a reason.
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Gilesfan
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RE: Football in paradise
To sweat, duh.
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voss749
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RE: Football in paradise
"Saying FIU is the school of South Beach is like saying Rutgers in the school of NYC. "
FACTS
FIU stadium is 20 miles from Miami Beach,
FAU stadium is 3 miles from 2 public beaches you can see the Ocean from the top of the stadium.
Thats not an opinion thats geography.
An uberpool from FAU to south beach pavillion in boca costs $7
An uberpool from FIU to Miami beach costs $25
(This post was last modified: 08-21-2017 01:59 PM by voss749.)
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WKUYG
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RE: Football in paradise
Most people in Miami and Boca hardly go to the beach. Most of Miami is a 10 to 30 minute drive just to get there. And while it's a shorter, easier drive for Boca, the beaches are mostly filled (not full or close to being full) with those renting hotel rooms or condos. The one spot you will find full on a Saturday/Sunday is the public beach at Ft Lauderdale. Anywhere else you might have 10 yards between people.
People travel to Miami for the nightlife. Old(er) people travel to Boca to retire. If those people want fun and nightlife they make the 15/20 minute drive to Ft Lauerdale or the 40 minute drive to Miami. Neither place(beach) is packed in the dead of summer...
the in season starts after Thanksgiving and last till March
If you want nightlife you go to Miami
If you want the beach you go to Ft Lauerdale
If you want to retire from the snow and cold up north...Boca
We made between 4 to 9 trips to South Fla during the Nov-March each of the last 4 years. We stay in Ft Lauderdale and always make one to two trips down to Miami with each stay. The only reason we travel north to Boca is if Western is playing a BB or FB game. Or driving the coast to view all the 5 to 125 million dollars homes from Ft Lauderdale to West Palm Beach.
Summer time those up north head to the closes beach to their home and us in middle America head to the gulf coast...if the beach is what you are after.
Ft Lauderdale and the Hollywood area beaches....are packed more during peak times than South Beach in Miami. That's my experience as a visitor during in season and off season. Parking is very very limited with in a 3 block area of south beach. Most of it is taken up by shoppers and eating at the bars and restaurants. That's probably why a lot of people who live in the Miami area head to Hollywood and Ft Lauderdale beaches on weekends
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MTPiKapp
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RE: Football in paradise
(08-21-2017 01:26 PM)owlcountry40 Wrote: (08-21-2017 10:11 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote: What are you guys really arguing?
What's the least awful part of Florida?
Yea, I will take a state with beaches, beautiful women and a million things to do at anytime many other places.
People come to live here for a reason.
Yes, because a lot of people(but in reality, not really) liking something definitely means it's good, right?
Don't get me wrong, a fair amount of south Georgia isn't much better.
South of Macon and north of Tampa is largely...well... I'll just say... not great.
Now excuse while I go catch up on the Florida Man reddit...
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owlcountry40
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RE: Football in paradise
(08-21-2017 01:58 PM)WKUYG Wrote: Most people in Miami and Boca hardly go to the beach. Most of Miami is a 10 to 30 minute drive just to get there. And while it's a shorter, easier drive for Boca, the beaches are mostly filled (not full or close to being full) with those renting hotel rooms or condos. The one spot you will find full on a Saturday/Sunday is the public beach at Ft Lauderdale. Anywhere else you might have 10 yards between people.
People travel to Miami for the nightlife. Old(er) people travel to Boca to retire. If those people want fun and nightlife they make the 15/20 minute drive to Ft Lauerdale or the 40 minute drive to Miami. Neither place(beach) is packed in the dead of summer...
the in season starts after Thanksgiving and last till March
If you want nightlife you go to Miami
If you want the beach you go to Ft Lauerdale
If you want to retire from the snow and cold up north...Boca
We made between 4 to 9 trips to South Fla during the Nov-March each of the last 4 years. We stay in Ft Lauderdale and always make one to two trips down to Miami with each stay. The only reason we travel north to Boca is if Western is playing a BB or FB game. Or driving the coast to view all the 5 to 125 million dollars homes from Ft Lauderdale to West Palm Beach.
Summer time those up north head to the closes beach to their home and us in middle America head to the gulf coast...if the beach is what you are after.
Ft Lauderdale and the Hollywood area beaches....are packed more during peak times than South Beach in Miami. That's my experience as a visitor during in season and off season. Parking is very very limited with in a 3 block area of south beach. Most of it is taken up by shoppers and eating at the bars and restaurants. That's probably why a lot of people who live in the Miami area head to Hollywood and Ft Lauderdale beaches on weekends
That has changed dramatically in Boca the last 10-12 years East Boca isn't old at all. Florida has retires everywhere, but they don't live in East Boca.
In the end Boca> whatever you consider FIU in
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WKUYG
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RE: Football in paradise
(08-21-2017 02:13 PM)owlcountry40 Wrote: (08-21-2017 01:58 PM)WKUYG Wrote: Most people in Miami and Boca hardly go to the beach. Most of Miami is a 10 to 30 minute drive just to get there. And while it's a shorter, easier drive for Boca, the beaches are mostly filled (not full or close to being full) with those renting hotel rooms or condos. The one spot you will find full on a Saturday/Sunday is the public beach at Ft Lauderdale. Anywhere else you might have 10 yards between people.
People travel to Miami for the nightlife. Old(er) people travel to Boca to retire. If those people want fun and nightlife they make the 15/20 minute drive to Ft Lauerdale or the 40 minute drive to Miami. Neither place(beach) is packed in the dead of summer...
the in season starts after Thanksgiving and last till March
If you want nightlife you go to Miami
If you want the beach you go to Ft Lauerdale
If you want to retire from the snow and cold up north...Boca
We made between 4 to 9 trips to South Fla during the Nov-March each of the last 4 years. We stay in Ft Lauderdale and always make one to two trips down to Miami with each stay. The only reason we travel north to Boca is if Western is playing a BB or FB game. Or driving the coast to view all the 5 to 125 million dollars homes from Ft Lauderdale to West Palm Beach.
Summer time those up north head to the closes beach to their home and us in middle America head to the gulf coast...if the beach is what you are after.
Ft Lauderdale and the Hollywood area beaches....are packed more during peak times than South Beach in Miami. That's my experience as a visitor during in season and off season. Parking is very very limited with in a 3 block area of south beach. Most of it is taken up by shoppers and eating at the bars and restaurants. That's probably why a lot of people who live in the Miami area head to Hollywood and Ft Lauderdale beaches on weekends
That has changed dramatically in Boca the last 10-12 years East Boca isn't old at all. Florida has retires everywhere, but they don't live in East Boca.
In the end Boca> whatever you consider FIU in
The eastern part of anywhere in that 40 mile area (north and south of Boca) is so expensive only the rich (wealthy) can afford to live there. And while Boca might be getting younger it's still fairly middle age to older. I don't know the area other than over the last 5 years so I can't speak to what it was before then. In my experience during that time...
Boca is more foreign, upper class, white(european), middle aged than Miami or Ft Lauderdale. I'm not saying that's bad or good or affects FIU or FAU. The farther south you go that changes to more of a fun(er) easy going setting. There's parts of Miami I wouldn't go in and I walked the streets of the lower 9th ward in New Orleans. The neighborhood FIU sits in hardly speaks English and it's basically every working to middle class that you will find in most cities (other than the English part) in America. I doubt if many make it to the beach as much as I do.
If we are talking beach....hands down Boca is the better setting and more people(% wise) living there probably enjoys it more often.
I love the area because it's a easy drive for everything you might want and 78 to 82 degrees during the winter. If not for Western's sports we would live in the Boca/Ft Lauderdale area during the winner
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Sninho
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RE: Football in paradise
(08-21-2017 02:05 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote: (08-21-2017 01:26 PM)owlcountry40 Wrote: (08-21-2017 10:11 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote: What are you guys really arguing?
What's the least awful part of Florida?
Yea, I will take a state with beaches, beautiful women and a million things to do at anytime many other places.
People come to live here for a reason.
Yes, because a lot of people(but in reality, not really) liking something definitely means it's good, right?
Don't get me wrong, a fair amount of south Georgia isn't much better.
South of Macon and north of Tampa is largely...well... I'll just say... not great.
Now excuse while I go catch up on the Florida Man reddit...
I'm not above goin back to jail for murder.
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goliath74
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RE: Football in paradise
(08-21-2017 01:58 PM)WKUYG Wrote: Most people in Miami and Boca hardly go to the beach. Most of Miami is a 10 to 30 minute drive just to get there. And while it's a shorter, easier drive for Boca, the beaches are mostly filled (not full or close to being full) with those renting hotel rooms or condos. The one spot you will find full on a Saturday/Sunday is the public beach at Ft Lauderdale. Anywhere else you might have 10 yards between people.
People travel to Miami for the nightlife. Old(er) people travel to Boca to retire. If those people want fun and nightlife they make the 15/20 minute drive to Ft Lauerdale or the 40 minute drive to Miami. Neither place(beach) is packed in the dead of summer...
the in season starts after Thanksgiving and last till March
If you want nightlife you go to Miami
If you want the beach you go to Ft Lauerdale
If you want to retire from the snow and cold up north...Boca
We made between 4 to 9 trips to South Fla during the Nov-March each of the last 4 years. We stay in Ft Lauderdale and always make one to two trips down to Miami with each stay. The only reason we travel north to Boca is if Western is playing a BB or FB game. Or driving the coast to view all the 5 to 125 million dollars homes from Ft Lauderdale to West Palm Beach.
Summer time those up north head to the closes beach to their home and us in middle America head to the gulf coast...if the beach is what you are after.
Ft Lauderdale and the Hollywood area beaches....are packed more during peak times than South Beach in Miami. That's my experience as a visitor during in season and off season. Parking is very very limited with in a 3 block area of south beach. Most of it is taken up by shoppers and eating at the bars and restaurants. That's probably why a lot of people who live in the Miami area head to Hollywood and Ft Lauderdale beaches on weekends
That is true, I have lived in South Florida since 1991 (enrolled at FAU in 1992). I used to go to the beach every chance I got. But, in the last 15-20 years, I, probably, go 3-4 times a year. It just does not have that mystique anymore. Plus, of course, I no longer have that beach body I used to have when I was an owl myself.
P.S. I do not think we need to be engaging in intra-Florida "whose neighborhood is nicer" scuffle. Let's just enjoy the sun, the beaches, the babes, and the fact that we can all be getting a decent education on top of that.
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RE: Football in paradise
(08-21-2017 12:58 PM)THUNDERGround Wrote: Rutgers isn't even the flagship school for New Jersey.... WVU is.
Just to add to your thoughts.... Delray is nice too and just one town north... Boston's was the sheeite when I was there.
Truth. Yeah and if Long Island were its own state its flagship school would be in Bloomington, IN...
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RE: Football in paradise
(08-21-2017 01:26 PM)owlcountry40 Wrote: (08-21-2017 10:11 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote: What are you guys really arguing?
What's the least awful part of Florida?
Yea, I will take a state with beaches, beautiful women and a million things to do at anytime many other places.
People come to live here for a reason.
To get bit their face bitten off at a piggly wiggly?
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RE: Football in paradise
(08-21-2017 01:26 PM)owlcountry40 Wrote: (08-21-2017 10:11 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote: What are you guys really arguing?
What's the least awful part of Florida?
Yea, I will take a state with beaches, beautiful women and a million things to do at anytime many other places.
People come to live here for a reason.
You're right though, New York is indeed wonderful.
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MTPiKapp
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RE: Football in paradise
(08-21-2017 02:53 PM)Sninho Wrote: (08-21-2017 02:05 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote: (08-21-2017 01:26 PM)owlcountry40 Wrote: (08-21-2017 10:11 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote: What are you guys really arguing?
What's the least awful part of Florida?
Yea, I will take a state with beaches, beautiful women and a million things to do at anytime many other places.
People come to live here for a reason.
Yes, because a lot of people(but in reality, not really) liking something definitely means it's good, right?
Don't get me wrong, a fair amount of south Georgia isn't much better.
South of Macon and north of Tampa is largely...well... I'll just say... not great.
Now excuse while I go catch up on the Florida Man reddit...
I'm not above goin back to jail for murder.
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RE: Football in paradise
I haven't worn pants in months. Seriously. Most of Florida qualifies as "paradise" to someone, somewhere. Fort Lauderdale ain't too bad, but I want to live in the keys. I'm trying hard to get there too. Goals, folks! I'm REALLY looking forward to USM visiting both of you eventually. I figure if I drag enough of my fans to the keys, and get them hooked, someone will eventually start an alumni chapter down here. LOL!
Both FAU and FIU need time to grow a fanbase. That doesn't happen overnight. Go to your games. Go to away games. Desecrate each others' stadiums. Steal mascots. Be obnoxious when you finally get a chance to be. Enjoy the moment.
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