I moved to Miami from San Francisco in February. The reason wasn’t because of tech. I couldn’t deal with rising crime and how closed the city was. It was April when a ton more people started flocking to Miami for conferences and events.

A lot of people are here short term. Yes some bought property but it’s certainly not everyone.

Miami feels really well run in comparison to San Francisco. Walking around, I see human feces, needles, dead bodies through overdose. It’s a very clean city, lots of places to buy or rent, very health conscious and there’s a lot of sun!

My major gripe is that it’s kind of hard to walk and find food at the scale of inner Richmond or in Brooklyn. I actually have yet to meet any software engineers like me in the city which kind of sucks. I don’t have anything in common with the e-commerce and crypto people in the city.

I’m not in love with it. But it does the job for me right now given that the city does feel like the better place to be given COVID restrictions. Ultimately I’d love to be in the west coast again due to how much I went backpacking.

No. It’s a marketing campaign from those who want to start a trend. People want to advertise themselves as trendsetters and get in on the ground floor if Miami takes off.

It’s possible that Miami might have a growing tech scene, but the idea that everyone is picking up and moving to one specific city just isn’t true.

One of my wife's colleagues spent the winter there and was thinking about moving permanently, but after a few moths they came back. It is, apparently, a silly place. Also, soon it will be under the ocean.