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...His first encounter with Miami was underwhelming. He visited to study at Dade Junior College (now known as Miami-Dade College) in the late 1960s....
...The Bentley has yielded more than $500mn in sales — or about 40 per cent of the inventory — in less than a year and before a single shovel has scraped the earth....
...The middle of the state was more red. Miami-Dade County went red this time....
...In the 12 months from July 1 2020, far more Americans moved to Florida than any other state — 220,890 of them....
...Miami Beach — a separate city — is the southern part of a skinny barrier island that runs alongside Miami (both are part of Miami-Dade County)....
...Florida has 1.5m condos, more than any other state....
...In less than a year, it has gobbled up more than 2m sq ft of space in Manhattan....
...Edward Lampert, the founder of ESL Investments, left Greenwich in 2012 for Miami; and Barry Sternlicht, chairman and chief executive officer of Starwood Capital, left the state for Florida in 2016 while...
...In 2012, Florida was the only state decided by less than a single percentage point as Barack Obama narrowly edged asidebeat Mitt Romney....
...At the end of January, there were 288 homes priced above $5m in Miami-Dade County, a 29.7 per cent increase from a year earlier, according to data tracked by estate agency Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell (EWM)....
...Mr Obama’s support in Ohio seems to have been more resilient than his support in southern swing states such as Florida. The message to politicians about how to design a stimulus is interesting....
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...In the late 1950s, the General Development Corporation bought up vast swathes of former agricultural land in southeastern Florida around the St Lucie River....
...In Florida, the crucial state where Bush’s margin of victory was just 537 votes, they gave him 250,000 more votes than they gave Al Gore....
...Home prices in Miami-Dade were up 34 per cent in May from the year before, to a median of nearly $355,000....
...(The other two are in Houston, a Republican city in a really red state, and Miami, a Democrat town in 50-50 Florida.)...
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