Actually Miami has been in the shitter for 15 years at least now. When Andrew pulled the trigger on Versace, he also murdered the entire "Miami" culture too. I live 25 minutes away and will only go down twice a year. Fucking shitty ass Cubans and PRs ghetto-ing the place up and sliming their way around town.
And the "Miami Whites" are even worse. Even their fellow countrymen can't stand their Bill Gates - On - A -Budget pompous asses.
I've actually heard this before
and I also realize that there is a LOT more going on beyond all that Art Deco/Patrick Nagel image that comes when Non-Miami-ians think about Miami
....however- even with all of that aside I would much rather live in Miami than Boca......even this skeptical New Yorker is willing to buy into that facade about what people tend to think about Miami and what it really is (barrios, Haitians, Sexualy transmitted diseases et al)
EDIT---btw---did Cunnan REALLY kill Miami culture that much? That bad, huh?
From the way you describe it, it sounds kinda like how Punk Killed disco