and I love it here. I am a native of Miami Florida.  My family has resided here since the mid 1920s.  I have a younger sister and brother and they live in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl and Washington, D.C., respectively.  I also have a grandmother who lives on Miami Beach; she is incredibly independent and loves to dance.  Unfortunately, our parents have been deceased since the early 1990s and so we have developed very close family bonds.