South Florida--WORLD WIDE FRAUD CAPITAL

Quote from ByLoSellHi:

Boca Raton HAS to be one of the biggest fraud epicenters in the world. I've visited there often, and it gets stranger and stranger each time I go.
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in what way is it getting stranger?

the demographics hasnt changed.. you still have smart NYC Jews coming down and doing business out of here, plenty of success and bankruptcy stories just like in the past.

The new trend is for corporations to move to Boca.
Office depot just broke ground on new world headquarters..
IBM, Tyco, Siemens and many internet start ups are here.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/46/boca.html

Throw in FAU and its partnership with the Scripps Institute and biotech is developing as well.
 
Quote from Copernicus:

in what way is it getting stranger?
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Bizarre characters, from all over the world.

Everyone speaks a different language, from Russian, to Romanian, to Macedonian....

It's not just the languages. You can sit in a hotel bar and strike up the oddest conversations with some of the strangest and most colorful people who look and sound like they just stepped out of a Stanley Kubrick screenplay.
 
Quote from ByLoSellHi:

Bizarre characters, from all over the world.

Everyone speaks a different language, from Russian, to Romanian, to Macedonian....

It's not just the languages. You can sit in a hotel bar and strike up the oddest conversations with some of the strangest and most colorful people who look and sound like they just stepped out of a Stanley Kubrick screenplay.
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yeah, thats right, but most of these people are enterpreneurs, not vacation/retirerees like elsewhere in SE FL.
 
Quote from Copernicus:

yeah, thats right, but most of these people are enterpreneurs, not vacation/retirerees like elsewhere in SE FL.
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I never said it was good, bad or indifferent.

Just weird. Like a Kubrick film.
 
Quote from ByLoSellHi:

I never said it was good, bad or indifferent.

Just weird. Like a Kubrick film.
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I'd agree with that assessment.

Colorful place to live.

Copernicus is also right though. SoFla is trying to go legit. Drugs and tourists started the boom but more and more it's younger people moving in from NYC and South America with both capital and ideas.

Many "working class" white collar guys (i.e. boiler room brokers) from the Northeast come here because it's cheaper to live than Long Island or Boston. More fun too......
 
Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:

I'd agree with that assessment.

Colorful place to live.

Copernicus is also right though. SoFla is trying to go legit. Drugs and tourists started the boom but more and more it's younger people moving in from NYC and South America with both capital and ideas.

Many "working class" white collar guys (i.e. boiler room brokers) from the Northeast come here because it's cheaper to live than Long Island or Boston. More fun too......
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:D

That imagery.....amuses me for some strange reason. Boca boiler rooms....
 
Thanks for the insight guys. I'm in Northern Fla myself.

I do find it funny that people talk about these fraud crimes as if it cannot happen right in their own backyard.
 
Quote from ybfjax:

Thanks for the insight guys. I'm in Northern Fla myself.

I do find it funny that people talk about these fraud crimes as if it cannot happen right in their own backyard.
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Yeah....stuff does happen everywhere. Look at the fall of Refco. Happened right in my old beloved home of Chicago. Talk about fraud.
 
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