Possibility of us living & working in America................., Florida sounds nice, specailly Miami............ Options

[richgt4]

Morning all

I'd like to ask you a few serious questions if I may

My girlfriend is thinking very seroiusly about working in America, specifically Miami, Florida. Now I don't know what's made her choose the Miami area in particular (maybe it's because I wanted to go on holiday there next year) but she seems dead keen on it & she's been looking at pictures on the net of Miami & it really does look very, very nice Sun, beaches, more sun, some more beaches

(I suppose we really shoould come over for a holiday first to see what it's like )

So I'm wondering if anyone on here in the Florida/Miami area can tell me which are nice areas & which are no go areas. I know Florida as a state is pretty huge. I'm assuming that Miami itself is a pretty expensive place to live, so maybe looking at the surrounding areas of Miami would be advantageous to us? Thats where your local knowledge comes in

What is the average pay in like & whats a good $ per hour to be earning? For instance, I'm currently earning just under 28K per year working for the government over here in the UK which is an ok ish wage I suppose.

What's that the equivilant of in the US & is that wage good?

There are soo many questions I have buzzing around in my head that I simply can't write them all down here in this thread. So any feedback from you guys would be totally fan fooking tastic

You only live once & if we don't do this we'll be kicking ourselves very hard in the future. If you don't give it a go, you'll never know eh?

Thanks in advance for taking the time out to read & respond to my post

Thanks,

Rich

[BlackCelicaGT94]

To live in Cali or Miami im going to have to say you are going to need to be making more than 56k american.

http://miami.about.com/od/jobsbusiness/a/costofliving.htm

This some info I found

Miami Apartments
It's the "Magic City," home of sophisticated nightlife, luxurious homes and apartments, fabulous restaurants and, of course, miles and miles of beaches. Although Miami is well over 100 years old, it has the fresh aura of a perpetually modern city. Want to live the good life on Miami Beach? Believe it or not, you can find small apartments for rent starting in the $500-600 range. But to live it up in style, expect to pay $1,500 or more for appropriately fabulous apartment rentals.