You probably don't want to move to Miami. South Beach is about the most criminally overrated place on the planet...it's unique, yes, but you probably only want to visit. Unless Spanish is your first language and traffic tie-ups are your idea of fun. But pay a visit, and then decide.
Just two hours north of Phoenix is Flagstaff. It's a nice, small city in the mountains. I lived there for a while before I moved to San Francisco. I still miss it, lying in bed and listening to the wind in the trees and the smell of pine, seeing the clouds wrap around the mountains right outside my window, seeing eagles and owls, etc.
The real reason is that you have to have an "occupational license" to earn money on the streets in Florida. Why? The city or management company owns the property. It's your workplace, and if you make conditions unbearable or dangerous, then a party could effectively sue your "place of business"...namely, NOT you, because you don't own the property! If it's a sidewalk, then it's city/county property; eventually the municipality's getting the subpeona. Not to mention, you don't pay taxes on what you've earned to make those items.
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Right on the beach.
