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Article: No. 12 quality of life: for comfortable living--balmy weather, beaches, exciting nightlife, diverse culture and reasonable cost of living--South Florida is tops.(FTAA)
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- South Florida CEO
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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On any given weekend night, you can drive around South Florida and discover scores of different social scenes--from a Flamenco nightclub in west Miami-Dade to a sidewalk cafe on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale to a white-linen restaurant in Coral Gables. While the venue may change, one thing you are likely to hear is a foreign language, probably Spanish or Portuguese.
The reason is simple: about 10 million tourists and business travelers fly into Greater Miami each year, a sizeable percentage of which--some 3.7 million--arrive from Latin America and the Caribbean. Another 7.5 million visitors fly into Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, just 23 ...