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The housing market crash of 2007 caused a foreclosure crisis in the area in 2012 Forbes magazine named Miami the most miserable city in the United States because of the crippling housing crisis that cost multitudes of residents their homes and jobs in addition the metro area has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country and workers face lengthy daily commutes Like other metro areas in the United States crime in Miami is localized to specific neighborhoods In a 2016 study by the website 24/7 Wall Street Miami was rated as the worst U.S city in which to live based on crime poverty income inequality and housing costs that far exceed the national median, Boulevard Gardens Major professional and D-I college teams (attendance > 10,000). The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 brought 150,000 Cubans to Miami the largest transport in civilian history Unlike the previous exodus of the 1960s most of the Cuban refugees arriving were poor some having been released from prisons or mental institutions to make the trip During this time many of the middle class non-Hispanic whites in the community left the city often referred to as the "white flight" in 1960 Miami was 90% non-Hispanic white but by 1990 it was only about 10% non-Hispanic white! .

Source: PRISM Climate Group, Florida Suncoast In 2003 the Miami Herald and El Universal of Mexico City created an international joint venture and in 2004 they together launched the Herald Mexico a short-lived English-language newspaper for readers in Mexico Its final issue was published in May 2007, The following is a list of the twenty largest cities in the Miami metropolitan area as ranked by population. 9 References Airlines Destinations Refs 4 Student Advisor to the School Board Florida International University has two major campuses in Miami the main campus University Park and its regional campus the Biscayne Bay Campus as well as several branch campuses and research facilities throughout South Florida in Tianjin China and in Nervi and Genoa Italy. Initial attempts at developing agriculture near Lake Okeechobee were successful but the nutrients in the peat were rapidly removed In a process called soil subsidence oxidation of peat causes loss of volume Bacteria decompose dead sawgrass slowly underwater without oxygen When the water was drained in the 1920s and bacteria interacted with oxygen an aerobic reaction occurred Microorganisms degraded the peat into carbon dioxide and water Some of the peat was burned by settlers to clear the land Some homes built in the areas of early farms had to have their foundations moved to stilts as the peat deteriorated; other areas lost approximately 8 feet (2.4 m) of soil depth; In 2010 6.9% of the population (1,269,765) considered themselves to be of only American ancestry (regardless of race or ethnicity) Many of these were of English or Scotch-Irish descent; however their families have lived in the state for so long that they choose to identify as having "American" ancestry or do not know their ancestry in the 1980 United States census the largest ancestry group reported in Florida was English with 2,232,514 Floridians claiming that they were of English or mostly English American ancestry Some of their ancestry went back to the original thirteen colonies, Tri-Rail fare zone boundary 3.4.1 Concourse A FIU has over 30 fraternities and sororities divided into four governing councils: the Interfraternity Council (IFC) the Panhellenic Council (PC) the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) and the Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) the Order of Omega a Greek honor society has had a chapter at the university since 1991 and represents the academic top 3% of FIU Greeks. 17 External links The Wertheim Conservatory houses many rare species of plants and foliage.