{"id":12494,"date":"2013-05-03T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/?p=12494"},"modified":"2013-05-03T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T10:00:35","slug":"is-miami-a-good-place-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/is-miami-a-good-place-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Miami a Good Place to Live?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/05\/images\/Downtown+Miami.jpg\" title=\"Downtown Miami\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Wikipedia.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe fast and simple answer is, yes, Miami is a good place to live! In fact, if you look at various polls and reports over the last decade you\u2019ll see that Miami is actually a great place to live \u2013 ranked seventh in the country in terms of finance, commerce, culture, entertainment, education and more in 2010; ranked \u201cAmerica\u2019s Cleanest City\u201d by Forbes magazine in 2008; and ranked the richest city in the United States in 2009, so Miami really does have a lot going for it. But let\u2019s break it all down and look individually at the safety, employment rates, cost of living, and education:<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<h2>Safety in Miami<\/h2>\n<p><div style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/05\/images\/Miami_Police.jpg\" title=\"Miami Police\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Wikipedia.<\/p><\/div>Miami isn\u2019t renowned as a particularly dangerous or crime-ridden city, but, like most others of its size there are problem areas. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-data.com\/crime\/crime-Miami-Florida.html\">City-Data.com<\/a>, Miami is above average when it comes to the number of crimes, registering fairly high on the scale for thefts and burglaries, and is significantly higher on the violent crimes index than the national average.<br \/>\nThe Miami Police Department has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami-police.org\/CrimeMapping.html\">Crime Mapping Program<\/a> on their website where you can stay informed about crimes in the city in an effort to prevent becoming a victim of crime.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<h2>Employment Opportunities in Miami<\/h2>\n<p><div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/05\/images\/FIU.jpg\" title=\"Florida International University\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Wikipedia.<\/p><\/div>There\u2019s no doubt that there\u2019s a lot of money in Miami. It was ranked as the richest city in the United States in 2009 and it\u2019s a major center for commerce and finance. Many national and multinational companies have their headquarters in or around Miami including Burger King, Carnival Cruise Lines, Telemundo, and U.S. Century Bank, but it\u2019s also the Latin American HQ for American Airlines, Disney, Cisco, Sony, FedEx, Exxon, and many more<br \/>\nDespite this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.areavibes.com\/miami-fl\/employment\/\">unemployment rates<\/a> were a percentage point higher than the national average in 2012 at 9.6 percent, though the good news is this is lower than in 2000 when it hit 11.7 percent, and poverty is high compared to the national average so there isn\u2019t an even distribution of wealth in the city.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<h2>Cost of Living in Miami<\/h2>\n<p>Being one of the richest cities in the country you\u2019d expect the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.areavibes.com\/miami-fl\/cost-of-living\/\">cost of living<\/a> to be high to match this, but Miami is actually quite an affordable place to live \u2013 for a big city anyway. It\u2019s just 8.3 percent higher than the national average, and if you look at the utilities index Miami is actually 6 percent below the national average. Goods and services, groceries, health care, housing, and transportation all come in a little above national averages, but again, for a big city this makes Miami really quite affordable.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<h2>Miami\u2019s Schools and Education<\/h2>\n<p>Miami-Dade County Public Schools is the largest school district in Florida and only the fourth largest in the US, and the city includes some of the best high schools in the country such as Coral Reef High School, Design and Architecture High School, and MAST Academy. In fact, seven of Miami\u2019s public high schools are ranked within the top 200 in the United States. There are private schools to choose from too, and a high number of students go on to enroll in local colleges and universities.<br \/>\nThese institutions include University of Miami, Miami Dade College, and Florida International University.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<h2>Air Quality in Miami<\/h2>\n<p>You can breathe easy in Miami because the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.areavibes.com\/miami-fl\/health-safety\/\">air quality index<\/a> is 10.8 percent less than the national average. This is quite an achievement for a city of Miami\u2019s size. Miami was also heralded for its ample green spaces, clean streets, city-wide recycling, and clean drinking water when it was ranked America\u2019s cleanest city by Forbes magazine in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fast and simple answer is, yes, Miami is a good place to live! 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But let\u2019s break it all down and look individually at the safety, employment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-scene","post--single"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Miami a Good Place to Live?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/is-miami-a-good-place-to-live\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is Miami a Good Place to Live?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The fast and simple answer is, yes, Miami is a good place to live! 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