I remember when it wasn't Disney-clean, too ... the ladies of the night around Broadway, the steaming garbage piled up right outside the place you walk in to eat (boggled me coming from island life) ...
I kind of love NYC, though ...
Where I live you have to accept people in your circle who aren't always the best possible match ... in the city you can be like, I want a meetup for Outspoken ex-Debate Champions w/ Oppositional Defiance ... and then you go and there's 25 people scarily like you ... I don't know, that's kind of cool ... so many diverse people ...
Miami gives you a little bit of that, but the rest of Florida really just doesn't ...