all4tribal1414779019 Posted October 13 Report Share Posted October 13 And there are Fortune 500 companies in Miami, with HQ or big regional HQs here. Look over by the airport. Canon, Diageo, HP, Fujifilm, Norwegian Cruise Lines, and many others. Damm y did u have to tell everyone!Oh but its Diogo...close tho 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted October 13 Report Share Posted October 13 Diageo kicks ass. Do a little research by clicking on the friendly banner ad topside. 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V. Barbarino Posted October 13 Report Share Posted October 13 I'll just cut out the key quotes:Folks and businesses are still fleeing--but often it's away from Miami-Dade County. In the past five years a net 151,000 people, many of them middle-class residents, have left the area to go to other parts of the U.S.; 238,000 people have arrived from abroadDuring the same period job growth has limped along at an average 0.6% annually. Based on 2002 census data on large cities, Miami had the highest poverty rate, 31%; for all of Miami-Dade it's 18%, still well above the state and national levels. Personal income is also a sagging indicator. The region has the third-highest crime rate of any metro area in our Best Places for Business and Careers survey. For these reasons, coupled with rising business costs, Miami-Dade gets our booby prize this year. The metro area ranks 139 out of 150 on our list of Best Places, down nine notches from last year. Hard to envision, but South Beach is on a par with such locales as Detroit and Toledo. Those immigrants account for a large majority of the area's foreign-born population, now 51.4% of the county.Driven by affluent out-of-towners, housing prices, for example, are up 52% over the last three years, far outstripping income growth. At the same time Miami's lousy public school system and relative paucity of college grads help create a low-wage, low-tech economic base. That makes it tough to attract large and high-tech corporations. Many multinationals have set up Latin American headquarters in the county--Cisco, IBM and Oracle among them. But most are small operations, with 250 jobs or fewer.Miami is also feeling heat from neighboring Broward and Palm Beach counties. The rivalry peaked a couple of years ago, when Broward reportedly poached a Carnival Cruise call center and a Delta Air Lines reservations group. Last month appliance maker Applica announced it was moving 300 jobs north to Broward. Miami-Dade wasn't even in the running for a $500 million biomedical center for the Scripps Research Institute, which elected to go into Palm Beach County. What about new jobs? Its biggest hope seems to hang on a vast, U.N.-like trade association. Miami is one of 11 cities in the U.S. and Latin America competing to become the permanent Secretariat of the Free Trade of the Americas. Says Claudia Del Toro, managing director of Invest in Miami: "This is a contest Miami can't afford to lose." _____________________________________________there you go, the wonderful city of miami... broward is going to feel the heat soon. Build a wall to keep them out!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted October 13 Report Share Posted October 13 I can see the numbers yeah, but still, I could care less if a call center moves to Broward. Broward is more suited for corporate America anyway. No denying that whatsoever. Miami will always be based on tourism and entertainment. Even the corporate jobs revolve around that. Cruise lines, alcohol distributors/makers, TV, radio, etc. That being said, these numbers are almost three years out of date. Miami is no longer the poorest big city. Cleveland took that spot this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest web_norah Posted October 13 Report Share Posted October 13 fine keep the J Crew wearing yuppies up in Broward, they'll have the grannies and northeasterners to look at in winter keep Miami where tourism and wmc are at Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest coach Posted October 13 Report Share Posted October 13 fine keep the J Crew wearing yuppies up in Broward.Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah! J Crew! Run in fear! Nothing says "follow the crowd" like a little J Crew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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