Five Miami Dolphins Fans Everyone Knows on Game Day

There are many types of Miami Dolphins fans in this world, but they all have one thing in common: an uncanny ability to withstand an absurd amount of annual disappointment while still signing up the following August to ask for more. Dolphins fans are like snowflakes: We’re all made of the same stuff, but none of us is exactly the same.

Tropical Storm Dorian Could Hit Miami Just in Time for King Tides

If you’ve lived in Miami longer than, say, one week, you’re probably familiar with the South Florida weather sensation known as king tides. During a few stretches of the year when the moon is closest to the Earth, the gravitational pull causes higher-than-normal tides, prompting the hellish phenomenon of sunny-day flooding.

Moving to Miami: An Intro to Local Politics

So you’ve settled in: You have a few new tropical plants you’ve named Harriet and Oswald, you’ve got a basic handle on which highways suck (all of them), and you’re at least tangentially aware that whatever apartment you inhabit now will probably be chronically flooded by 2100. You’re coming to…

Moving to Miami: Pero, Do I Need to Know Spanish?

Everyone who comes to Miami has one of two questions: “Do you go to the beach every day?” and “Do I have to learn Spanish to get by here?” The answer to the first is a simple and resounding no, but the second one is a bit more complicated. I’ve…

Moving to Miami: A Californian’s First Impressions

I’m a fifth-generation Californian whose family has always called the San Francisco Bay Area home. My great-greatgrandparents met at the original Palace Hotel before it was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Besides a short stint in New York City for grad school, California is the only…

Moving to Miami: A D.C. Transplant’s First Impressions

Go back a few months and a thousand miles to Washington, D.C., and I might have naively told you that “Welcome to Miami” was either a greeting or an endearingly cheesy rap song by Will Smith. Oh, how wrong I was. “Welcome to Miami” isn’t a greeting. It’s a commiseration…

Moving to Miami: Brickell Life With Kids

For a variety of reasons, my wife and I don’t live in the United States. But her parents are in Miami, and by the force of some maternal magnetism, we’ve had both of our children at South Miami Hospital. When our daughter was born in 2016, we exploited the generosity…

Moving to Miami: Five Practical Things to Know After Arriving

You haven’t truly lived in Miami until you’ve seen an iguana in the wild, had your car towed while legally parked, and paid an insane high-four-figure deposit to whatever shell company owns your condo unit. Luckily, it’s extremely possible to hit all three of these milestones during your first week…

Moving to Miami: How to Live Here Without a Car

If you want to live in a city with robust mass transit, there’s always New York. Metro areas like San Francisco and D.C. make ditching car ownership easy. Hell, even Los Angeles has been working on expanding its rail service by using a mix of heavy- and light-rail lines, and…