Russian Miami or Much Ado About Nothing

He visited Miami again and, finally, understood why "born in the USSR" is drawn to settle here. Officials, deputies, businessmen, and even pop stars here are just a overstock! Krutoy and Allegrova, Koroleva and Tarzan, Agutin and Varum, Mikhailov and ... however, I am not an expert in the varieties of the domestic scene. All of them can choose any coast of the world, but why exactly did they fly here like flies to honey?

Yes, because here it looks like a house. If you put Khimki's new buildings directly on Anapa Beach, you will hardly notice the difference with Miami. Living in a man-made room, boasting about a cool car and eating in chain restaurants - compatriots will not have to change their established habits.

Now I will show you how the American "resort Bibirevo" actually looks - both outside and inside.

And right from the door you will be shocked: what is commonly called Miami in the countries of the former USSR is not Miami at all. The city with this name is located south and west, and most of it does not even go to the sea. What you see in these photos - Miami Beach, Hollywood, Sunny Isles and Hallandale - are several small cities located on the island.

Look, is it beautiful? Is it architecture?

They almost never walk on foot, even they will go to a nearby store by car. Pedestrians are rare.

Over the years, a Russian-speaking community has formed with its habits and passions. As you know, a native of the Union cannot live without mayonnaise, brown bread and Doctoral sausage. All this is sold in specialized stores.

I didn’t shoot inside, but the assortment is usual for any “Russian” store abroad.

Bulletin board at a local cafe.

You know, all the same, the “suburbs of Miami” (let's call them so as not to offend anyone or get confused) have one big advantage over Khimki and Krasnogorsk. This is an ocean with a pretty good beach.

True, it’s just that it will not be easy to get to him from the street. By law, it is forbidden to enclose the coastline; it must be public. But no one forbids sticking fences on the territory of the house: so that you have to go a kilometer to the nearest passage to the beach.

Real estate buyers are not warned about this, but residents of the west side of the Florida peninsula chuckle at their eastern neighbors. The fact is that high-rise buildings cast a shadow right on the beach, and after lunch it is cold here. In the morning, the sun fries and dazzles right in the windows of houses.

The beach is crowded. Almost like in Anapa.

And the same dirty sea.

It’s small near the shore.

On the network you will see many juicy photos of the Miami beach.

Yes, I don’t have one: I can’t force myself to lie on the beach for even an hour, boring. So move on to residential areas.

From some angles, the sleeping bags of the “Russian Miami” painfully resemble the Georgian city of Batumi. There, too, Khrushchev mixed with multi-story new buildings.

Russian stars from the nineties have long been chosen by the Florida Riviera, and, unlike the deputies of the State Duma, they do not need to hide and hide from the people: everyone knows that Natasha Koroleva and Tarzan live in that house on the right, and Agutin and Varum around the corner.

Who else has dug in here? Valery Leontiev, Stas Mikhailov, Diana Gurtskaya, Igor Krutoy ... you know these names very well. Well, maybe they forgot.

Do not think that there are only skyscrapers, there is a bit of "one-story" America.

I visited one of the houses, looked at how it was arranged. Well, somehow, the usual such a multi-story residential building in America, whether it is a complex of apartments in Washington or a nursing home in Boston. Long winding corridors, dim light, the same wooden doors.

Laundry room, laundry for money.

The pool is also a common thing for such complexes. Unless with a view of the ocean.

Gym on the ground floor. Rare condominiums in the United States do without them, unless at all quite cheap.

In a residential complex of two houses 450 apartments. A little more than a hundred of them are single (two-room in our opinion) with an area of 92 square meters, the rest with two bedrooms (Russian "three rubles"). They are larger - 120-135 squares.

Apartments in this house cost from 270 thousand dollars for 1BR and from 370 thousand for 2BR. That is, quite inexpensive by average American indicators. If you rent, then right now in this house there are options for $ 1,700 a month or $ 500-600 more for a bigger apartment.