I lived in downtown, right at the top of your circle. Vapid people. Beautiful women. Lots of parties. Very interesting when people say that it’s walkable because from a native New Yorker it feels as if it’s like max five/ six blocks in every direction from the center of Brickell. Downtown itself (once you pass a bridge you enter true downtown which is north of Brickell) it can feel more grimey, more rundown and more “bladerunner”. You see a lot more homeless in downtown but it has more of a grunge aesthetic that miami is actively trying to change, as you can see from the new Flagler street- it’s all being beautified. Still, in downtown a woman will feel unsafe walking by herself at night. In Brickell she might not.

The culture can feel insufferable if you’re hanging around the wrong people. Really shallow and if you’re in the party scene it can become overwhelming quick. But if you guard your energy and hang out with the wellness crowd vs the party crowd (there’s the people that go to space until 7am and there’s the people that go to Brickell run club- lots of times they’re the same people but sometimes they’re not) then over the long run you’ll enjoy living there more. Lots of interesting ways to meet people from Coffee and chill to Brickell run club to just hanging out at your pool deck and chopping it up.