Don’t look now, America, but Miami might actually be setting a positive example for the rest us.
Never mind how my hometown’s biodiversity features corruption, gaping income inequality, and octagenarians who floor their 30-foot sedans to make early-bird dinner specials. More recently, South Florida was a hotbed of subprime excess that gave rise to an absurd number of half-financed, quarter-occupied condo towers. That overdependence on glass, concrete, and teaser mortgages left the local economy devastated once housing collapsed.
