
When I first came here in the early 1990s, vast swaths of it were still firmly anchored by Jimmy Buffett and Miami Vice. I only stayed for five years that time around. But every chance I had to come back, not much had changed, which was one of things I appreciated most: progress felt like a subplot to the lifestyle, not the other way around. Yet, South Florida’s history has also been guided by a relentless cycle of real estate booms that have remade other swaths of it seemingly overnight.







