That makes it all the more lamentable. Like I said, they're not serving their own interests or those of the citizenry.
Tampa, Orlando, etc, all had much more infrastructure much earlier than Miami did--but Miami outclassed all of them and grew tremendously, the rest only really catching up in the sunbelt boom Miami might be far from your town specifically--but how many work in Fort Lauderdale?
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A lot of people now, but before that people worked in Boca Raton. IBM located here. There was an entire era of medium scale economic activity built around suburbs in the 80s and 90s. The assimilation of all labor to the city is a relatively recent development here
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IBM set up a branch there, but they're not *from* there--I'm gonna guess they wanted a branch location to serve the Greater Miami market and, as an already mature industry, needed to prioritize scale over proximity and so picked a suburban site. Close enough but spacious.
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They did manufacturing here as well as R and D. The business was international - fittingly - and as far as I know had nothing to do with export to Miami particularly. As far as I can tell Boca was selected due to the availability of space at a good price.
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Guarantee you there was substantial demand for IBM's products within Miami (which doesn't mean they ONLY served Miami--being a port city after all makes it an ideal point for international export too, which is itself a major factor in Miami's success)
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I mean, fundamentally, I believe that cities homogenizing effect on labor is bad and you think it's good. It's fine
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No, I believe that American cities are not typical of cities in general or successful/growing cities in particular, and that conclusions drawn from them are not likely to be accurate in the future.
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Well, I guess we can agree on that
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I will put it this way, just because cities can be economic drivers, should they be? Has this really been healthy? Making people divest of environments where they can accrue real assets to make them work in one megalopolis? It's not necessary.
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It's more that *only* cities can be economic drivers, and they can do this either well or not well. America took a hard lurch to "not well" from the 50s onwards, for a lot of reasons. If I had to name one above all, it would be "protect mature industry from new industry"
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