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0 pointsyardie4y ago0 comments

I lived here 3 years without a car. South Beach is a great walkable beach town. For anything further I used: Zipcar (<day), Hertz/Avis/Ent (>day), Lyft/Uber (<1 hour). I only bought a car during the early stages of the pandemic, rideshare and rentals basically shutdown and leased cars were being firesaled.

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bogomipz4y ago· 1 in thread

Interesting. That's pretty good chunk of time to be car free. Are the rents expensive in South Beach? My mental image of it is a wealthy place.

yardieOP4y ago

South of Fifth (SoFi) and north of 17th are where the pricier condos exist. The Flamingo Park neighborhood are older (1920s) bungalows and apartments. This is the neighborhood where most of the families, retires, and service workers live. So while I had a few friends that lived in $5000/mo Portofino, I making substantially less, lived in a cute walk up with a great parking a block away and my choice of ventanas nearby.

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