Living in Southeast Florida (Miami-Fort Lauderdale)

Miami-Dade and Broward counties form Florida's largest, densest, and most internationally connected metro -- a genuine global city (Miami) with a Latin American/Caribbean business and cultural gravity unmatched anywhere else in the state, extending north through Fort Lauderdale's boating-and-canal-heavy 'Venice of America' identity into Broward's dense suburban belt (Pembroke Pines, Miramar, Coral Springs, Sunrise). This is also Florida's most expensive and most traffic-congested region outside the immediate coastline, and the one where 'Florida' as a monolithic relocation pitch breaks down the most -- Miami and, say, Sunrise are genuinely different living experiences despite sharing a metro.

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Last reviewed: 2026-08-22. Independent research; see individual place pages for metric-level source attribution. This is not financial, tax, or legal advice -- confirm current figures with a local professional before making a decision.