Sorry Miami DU'ers: MIAMI IS THE MEANEST NASTIEST CITY ON EARTH!!!

[Taverner]

OK...so everyone honks here. No matter what. Four car lengths in front of someone and you get in their way and they honk. No big deal. I've driven in LA. I've driven in Cairo. I know the way it goes.

But then they come up and scream at me from their car, etc. Is that really FUCKING necesarry?

And coming out of a restaraunt, walking to my car a Jeep pulls up and honks at me to get out of the way - WTF????

BTW...people don't smile here (like the midwest) or smirk (like California) or even look away (like NYC) they fucking SCOWL. Big mean angry scowls that tell the world "Fuck you, I hate you all, get the fuck out of my way!!!

[Patiod]

1. The only city where suppliers YELL at clients

Not just the boss, but everyone there snipped and scolded me. And I was the client!

The only upside is that they served Cuban coffee, which was amazing. But not worth being yelled at. ("It's your hotel on the phone! You left your charger there!!" "You can't go out into that hallway! You have to use the door marked B!!!"

[RebelOne]

2. As an ex-Miami resident, I couldn't agree with you more.

My favorite name for it was "the hell hole of the South."

[MadHound]

3. I heard this yesterday on NPR, and was quite suprised

After all, having driven in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area a few times, I thought they would be the hands down champ of nastiness. After all, among many, many other traffic nightmares I observed in that town, I actually saw a guy pull out his 38 snubnose and wing off a shot at a car that he had been honking/yelling/gesturing at.

If Miami is worse than that, remind me never to go there. I'll stick to North Florida instead, the white beaches of Pensacola.

[Taverner]

4. Lemme put it this way

At a meeting I just had with clients, they started off joking about how one road rager brandished a .22 gun on him, and he brandished back his Glock 9 mm

[MadHound]

6. That's insane! I'm glad I live in the Midwest, outside a metro area

Where people wave and smile at each other going down the road. Even in a large urban area, about the rudest people get are horns, screams and gestures. No guns are pulled, thankfully enough.

[Taverner]

8. Now the midwest I give props for being the friendliest place in the US

Even in Chicago people were friendly as all hell and asking directions took an extra 15 minutes to everywhere else becuase they'd talk your ear off :)

[NewJeffCT]

5. If you want to see scary driving...

Try driving in Beijing.

I've driven in Miami, Boston, NYC, southern California, all of New Jersey, CT & Mass, Tampa, Orlando, etc.

None of them are 1/10 as scary as Beijing. China 1/9 the number of cars as the US, 9 times the fatalities!

People are pretty nice, though, as long as they're not in cars.

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7. I was absolutely terrified by the Chinese drivers - they take huge risks

[NewJeffCT]

10. I can't count how many times

I can't count how many times I thought the bus or taxi I was riding in was going to run down a bicyclist or pedestrian...

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12. I just remember being driven in a van, and the Chinese driver passed a

car that was going slow, but coming directly towards us was a huge truck (on a 2-lane undivided highway) and the driver steps on the gas, changes lanes and zooms past the slower car, while I'm frozen with fear looking at this enormous truck headed directly towards us, in the same lane we are in, and at the last possible nanosecond the driver veers back into the proper lane, and we escape within an inch of our lives. This happened several times during the 5 days I was there - so it wasn't an isolated incident.

[NewJeffCT]

14. Oh, that brings up memories

I think they usually advise foreigners to just close their eyes & not look...

[quiet.american]

9. Reminds me of a Miami tragedy that happened to an acquaintance

About ten years ago, a former work acquaintance announced with a broad smile that he was moving to Miami, which had been his dream for some time. His thrilled demeanor was wonderful to see because he almost never smiled, and he was always quite aloof. But now that his dream was coming true, he opened up a bit, and we were able to see that he could be quite warm and charming.

Well, one month later, I walk into work to find out that he was dead. Shot to death in his car during a traffic stop at a red light. A friend, visiting Miami from Canada, had also been in the car with him, but wasn't hurt (physically) during the incident.

I couldn't believe it. I remembered how thrilled he'd been to have the opportunity to move to Miami. And I might mention, he'd moved from New York to Miami. The prevailing stereotypes at the time would have given odds he'd be safer there.

[RebelOne]

13. That's not an unusual occurrence in Miami.

[Road Scholar]

11. Apparently, you ain't never been to Autryville North Carolina. LOL

:shrug: