I'm from where the suburbs meet rural and I genuinely don't understand how people are able to be in high rise apartments during gnarly storms. It must be terrifying.
I used to work in One World Trade Center and it was actually super cool, you could see rain shooting upwards as the wind was dispersed by the building. Also if it was crazy windy you could hear the building creak.
Nah I want none of that, I appreciate the hell out of all of you who work in major cities and make the world go round for people like me cause I'm not doing that shit I like my trees being the tallest thing around.
I mean, I’ve never heard of a bad storm severely damaging a skyscraper. Hurricane winds can’t melt beams an’ all. Breaking glass would be my big worry but that could happen to any structure.
Is this referring to something specific that I don’t know about?
Edit: Oh…right. [Forgot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse).
Lots of glass breaking in them still and you run the risk of the glass at your level breaking. Houston after Ike and Harvey had a lot of glass knocked out of the sky scrapers.
Somehow, I don't think "Yes the glass can break" fully conveys the feeling of sitting in your living room chilling when glass and hurricane force winds and rain are suddenly speeding at your fucking face at 150 mph.
I was in Cancun after hurricane Wendy (I think that’s the one).
There was no glass in any of the hotels. The rooms were empty with water damage everywhere. There was also no sand on the beaches either, just rock.
I can’t imagine waiting out a tropical storm or hurricane in a building like that. I know they don’t collapse, but definitely not for me
Any house/structure built in Florida after Hurricane Andrew is pretty much hurricane proof. Not much to worry about. The rising sea levels on land that is essentially a sandbar on the other hand......
Oh don't get me started, that interview with the dude whose brother I believe fell into a sinkhole while sleeping was heartbreaking. Florida isn't for me.
I grew up in a 12th floor (of 17) high rise in Scotland. Some fun winter afternoons were spent watching something out the window and seeing how much the building moved.
When we eventually moved to a ground floor house with a garden the first 2 weeks freaked me out from hearing things outside my bedroom window during the night.
Yeah I always underestimate my fear of heights. I showed the top floor of an apartment once with floor to ceiling windows and I thought my legs were gonna buckle walking around the apartment.
I haven't lived in that area since 2014, but when I was there the oldest buildings had units in the $750-$850k range, the newer buildings were $900m-$1.2m+
Renting a 2br/2b was easily $3500+ a month depending on the view. there's the odd 1br or studio in the $1500-$2500/m range.
No one ever talks about the association fees which are $600-$1200+ a month, and yes the Brickell area associations make sure they collect unlike some condos in other areas.
I moved there from a condo much further North. It's a bit jarring going from $15-30 a month parking spaces to $60+/m. Or the personal advertisements next to the elevators at the old place are "couch for sale $1200," "baby stroller for sale $120," but in Brickell it's "couch for sale $10,000," "pram $1200," "boat slip $75,000."
Think the first sign of people down there being built different was instead of a $20 application processing fee or $50 for background check it was $400. Plus there's also a move in fee (to "rent" the elevator) which ran another couple hundred (I forget the amount).
My next door neighbor in Brickell was an engineer. When he mentioned it I was like "oh my dad is an engineer too" for some stupid reason. The neighbor said "I'm from Chile, engineering here is so easy cause there's no earthquakes." My brain didn't compute at first this guy probably makes 4-6x what my dad makes.
Eventually meeting all the neighbors just got crazier (lots of business owners from other countries), to the point there was one south american family who owned units on multiple floors just so they could all be closer to each other (mom was on one floors, each of her kids had units on other floors).
He cane from a poor small town family in Ohio. He never forgot his roots, and he has helped so many people. I, for one, would never be grudge him some luxury
lol there's too much money in the area for that to happen any time soon, development and water pumps will keep things at in check like they do in tons of costal cities already- worst case is major cleanup after a storm like New Orleans
I grew up in Miami in the 80s, Miami fans are prob the biggest fair-weather fans out there. I remember in '96 when the Panthers went up against Colorado (and got swept), everyone had rat fever. The next yeah meh. Same for the marlins/heat. People just don't care unless the team is winning
Panorama tower was briefly the tallest building on the east coast outside of New York. Now the new tallest building in Miami / Florida is the new Aston Martin Residence which is close to being finished.
66th floor omg. Not for me, but would be nice to visit!
The fireworks are amazing
I’d imagine the hurricanes are probably pretty epic too.
I'm from where the suburbs meet rural and I genuinely don't understand how people are able to be in high rise apartments during gnarly storms. It must be terrifying.
I used to work in One World Trade Center and it was actually super cool, you could see rain shooting upwards as the wind was dispersed by the building. Also if it was crazy windy you could hear the building creak.
Nah I want none of that, I appreciate the hell out of all of you who work in major cities and make the world go round for people like me cause I'm not doing that shit I like my trees being the tallest thing around.
I like that you appreciate the choices of others even though they aren't the choices you'd make. :)
One man’s “actually super cool,” another man’s “absolutely the fuck not.” It’s me. I’m the other man.
I mean, I’ve never heard of a bad storm severely damaging a skyscraper. Hurricane winds can’t melt beams an’ all. Breaking glass would be my big worry but that could happen to any structure.
Yeah but these are Miami skyscrapers bro. Corners are cut.
Corners are cut? Whole support beams were skipped.
They still have support beams, just in a flat edge instead of a sharp one
When was that?
Is this referring to something specific that I don’t know about? Edit: Oh…right. [Forgot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse).
Lots of glass breaking in them still and you run the risk of the glass at your level breaking. Houston after Ike and Harvey had a lot of glass knocked out of the sky scrapers.
Yes the glass can break, but your apartment will not fall because the windows shatter right? So the person you replied to is correct?
Somehow, I don't think "Yes the glass can break" fully conveys the feeling of sitting in your living room chilling when glass and hurricane force winds and rain are suddenly speeding at your fucking face at 150 mph.
I guess the best place to be in a skyscraper during such a storm would be on the toilet, shitting bricks.
Actually yes. In Singapore there are storm shelters in each home for exactly this.
You should become a mediator good sir Quality work
I'm going to guess these building have storm shutters.
I was in Cancun after hurricane Wendy (I think that’s the one). There was no glass in any of the hotels. The rooms were empty with water damage everywhere. There was also no sand on the beaches either, just rock. I can’t imagine waiting out a tropical storm or hurricane in a building like that. I know they don’t collapse, but definitely not for me
its the storm surge that gets you. if they didn't do the foundations correctly you could have an issue
Any house/structure built in Florida after Hurricane Andrew is pretty much hurricane proof. Not much to worry about. The rising sea levels on land that is essentially a sandbar on the other hand......
Oh don't get me started, that interview with the dude whose brother I believe fell into a sinkhole while sleeping was heartbreaking. Florida isn't for me.
I think the ones in 2022 were pretty bad too. I think one beach was closed for a year ( can't remember the name now).
I live on the 25th floor on top of a building and it’s awesome. I love storms, especially thunderstorms.
I grew up in a 12th floor (of 17) high rise in Scotland. Some fun winter afternoons were spent watching something out the window and seeing how much the building moved. When we eventually moved to a ground floor house with a garden the first 2 weeks freaked me out from hearing things outside my bedroom window during the night.
He is going to have to purchase a boat soon to get to and from his apartment
Yeah I always underestimate my fear of heights. I showed the top floor of an apartment once with floor to ceiling windows and I thought my legs were gonna buckle walking around the apartment.
I'm fine as long as I'm in a sealed space. But you wouldn't catch me on a balcony at that height.
I'm just amazed his brother-in-law's apartment has 66 floors!
Gotta take the stairs at least once a week if you live there.
GTA VI hype.
We got 66th floor Miami apartment views before GTA VI smh
 Your brother when the trailer dropped (probably)
Cool view. Incidentally, is your brother-in-law single?
Maybe, maybe not. But I'm sure he will consider taking your GF as a side piece thou.
That's such a Miami answer
That’s what I was thinking. Why isn’t this his sisters apt?
Perhaps OP is married and this is their partner’s sibling’s apartment. I couldn’t tell ya for sure.
Consistently single. It is Mike's Apartment after all.
Fuck it, I’ll ask. Rent or own? How much?
I know this building. If it's a 1 br, he's renting at 4.5k-6.5k.
Actually not bad
For real in Manhattan this would go for over $15k a month
I haven't lived in that area since 2014, but when I was there the oldest buildings had units in the $750-$850k range, the newer buildings were $900m-$1.2m+ Renting a 2br/2b was easily $3500+ a month depending on the view. there's the odd 1br or studio in the $1500-$2500/m range. No one ever talks about the association fees which are $600-$1200+ a month, and yes the Brickell area associations make sure they collect unlike some condos in other areas. I moved there from a condo much further North. It's a bit jarring going from $15-30 a month parking spaces to $60+/m. Or the personal advertisements next to the elevators at the old place are "couch for sale $1200," "baby stroller for sale $120," but in Brickell it's "couch for sale $10,000," "pram $1200," "boat slip $75,000." Think the first sign of people down there being built different was instead of a $20 application processing fee or $50 for background check it was $400. Plus there's also a move in fee (to "rent" the elevator) which ran another couple hundred (I forget the amount). My next door neighbor in Brickell was an engineer. When he mentioned it I was like "oh my dad is an engineer too" for some stupid reason. The neighbor said "I'm from Chile, engineering here is so easy cause there's no earthquakes." My brain didn't compute at first this guy probably makes 4-6x what my dad makes. Eventually meeting all the neighbors just got crazier (lots of business owners from other countries), to the point there was one south american family who owned units on multiple floors just so they could all be closer to each other (mom was on one floors, each of her kids had units on other floors).
My 600sqft NYC studio is $4k a month lol Sometimes you forget what normal prices are like, nyc is busted
Also cries in San Francisco $60+month for parking would be insanely reasonable
LA lamenting. None of the prices mentioned unfortunately sounded that crazy.
He’s talking 2014 prices, I bet it has gone up since
I don't know and have never even asked
Ask em for us damn
LMAO
How about what does he do for a living?
Developer
Of what? Web? Software? Land? People!
Porn
Photographs
It's just Chong from that 70s show.
Schemes
Real estate
Pictures
Developments
Casino's
It’s Panorama Tower, apartments only
Yes really. I’d like to know as well. See what I can’t afford. Lol
If it’s the Aston Martin one then a few million but the view looks slightly off in the same area though d wager it’s still around there.
Aston is on the other side of Brickell. You can’t really see it in this photo.
For those wondering that’s Brickell Key in front with the Port of Miami behind it in the middle then Miami Beach in the background
This guy definitely lives in the Panorama tower.
Gotta be, especially with the height and location of the photo
My Miami geography consists of Burn Notice references, so I feel qualified to navigate the city.
Miami is a gorgeous city I love to visir and you could never pay me to live in
People out there struggling to buy a simple home, yet he's got a 66-floor apartment. Sheesh.
I only buy 67 or more floors apartments. Peasants !
Yall live below the penthouse?
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Y’all live?
Y'all?
I live in the penthouse. The 69 floors below me are basements to my home.
69 is where the real fun starts. Save up your pennies, little man.
yeah. what a rook
Donny? Is that you?
Maybe everyone could afford a home if we built more 67 story apartment buildings
Damn, I see my Grammer error. lol
How about your spelling error?
You should know. You ARE Frajer
66 floors (that we know of)!
This is from the 66th for of his apartment not that his apartment has 66 floor.... he might have more.... a real stud would stop at 69... ya feel me?
He cane from a poor small town family in Ohio. He never forgot his roots, and he has helped so many people. I, for one, would never be grudge him some luxury
I think you missed the joke
The joke landed on floor 67
Still, 66 floors for a single apartment is excessive!
Dude must have legs like tree trunks from all those stairs.
Every day is leg day for that guy
Three more floors and that apartment would be noice.
*Wooooooosh*
Whoosh my dude
whoosh
Whooosh
Some of the lesser known lyrics from Journeys *Don't Stop Believin'*
Nice view of Brickell Key!
That's an expensive view, pretty
Miami’s gonna make one hell of a watery ruin.
No they took care of that. The governor banned the term climate change so they’re good.
It'll only come up to the 40th floor, so BIL is all good.
lol there's too much money in the area for that to happen any time soon, development and water pumps will keep things at in check like they do in tons of costal cities already- worst case is major cleanup after a storm like New Orleans
Where are they pumping the water to? And how big do the pumps need to be to affect the ocean?
Twelve pineapples after sunset is good, thank you
> development and water pumps will keep things at in check like they do in tons of costal cities already if I could laugh any harder, I'd die
Glad I could bring so much joy to your life.. please continue to laugh yourself to death
you keep trying to out "develop and water pump" the entire global FUCKING OCEAN as it rises meters at a time
New Orleans is surrounded by a levee system. Miami is not. Miami will go under before New Orleans does.
66 floors? Big deal. How many breakfast nooks does his >66 floor apartment have? That's the real measure of a wealthy man.
Yes, that and the ability to spell words.
This is hilarious. My good friend lives in the same building - I have a similar photo from his apartment a few floors down.
Your bro and I are neighbors. I have the city view. We get great sunsets.
What a cool view! Enjoy!
Excuse me? Only salty comments please!
From up there you can't see the peasants drown during the storms.
Your brother's apartment has a lot of floors!
So what does he do
Developer
real estate or software?
Film.
Works at the CVS on the 1st floor
I sputtered. 😂
I shuttered
Not software. I make software engineer money and it’s not 66th floor Miami view money.
You should make real estate software. It's not like they couldn't pay for it
I think that’s code for “sells lots and lots of drugs”
Developers, developers, developers!
Damn we got real life Vice City before we got GTA6
I love the area of Brickell Key (pictured). The main neighborhood Brickell has grown incredibly, it is very cosmopolitan.
Gonna be some sad folks there when the panthers lose this evening 😛
People in Miami don’t care as much about hockey as in say Ft. Lauderdale
I grew up in Miami in the 80s, Miami fans are prob the biggest fair-weather fans out there. I remember in '96 when the Panthers went up against Colorado (and got swept), everyone had rat fever. The next yeah meh. Same for the marlins/heat. People just don't care unless the team is winning
Much better things going on in Miami than sports.
r/agedlikemilk
Yeah, all three Flordia fans will be out in the streets rioting.
Us Lightning fans will be laughing though.^^please.
Ruh roh
Aged like milk
LOL CANADA We don't even care and we're better.
I’m going to buy this apartment…. In GTA VI online. :) edit: IV to VI
GTA IV is in New York tho?
I love cities at night. I used to hate not being able to see the stars but the skyline is a fair trade of for me.
I will be visiting there next year if it comes on PC
Urban explorer, 2050
My buddy lives on that weird triangle island
Brickell Key
So bright at night there. Good thing they are all LED's now and a 9v battery can run all of that. /s
How long is the elevator ride? Is it like a vertical metro, where where you'd sit and listen to a podcast on the commute down?
I’ve seen this view before. I think Bang Bros films there.
Off Brickell? My dad's place isn't far from there, just south of Mercy. It's a whole different world from where we grew up in Kendall!
This building might be the highest point in all of Florida
Panorama tower was briefly the tallest building on the east coast outside of New York. Now the new tallest building in Miami / Florida is the new Aston Martin Residence which is close to being finished.
Panorama Tower?
*Heeeelloooooo Viiiiicceeee Ciiiittyyyyy!*
Soon to be 64th floor with boat only access.
one Tsunami and shwoosh...
Damn! A little sharper and it could be a nice desktop wallpaper!
Miami skyline is thanks to Cocaine $$$$
Born & raised. Some cool things, but in general, the place is the toilet of the state. I'll never go back
Can your sister fight
I read: "...from my brothel" :O I thought, "That's a fancy brothel".
Does he have a unit in Paramount? When constructed, it was advertised as the tallest building south of New York.
He has a 66 floor apartment?!?
Your brother seems soo lonely those I need a friend?? 🙂↕️🙂↕️
Damn, how many floors does your brother in law's apartment have and why does he need so much space?
Is it not your siblings place also? Great view.
Could be their SO's brother
Thanks. I knew I was missing a scenario.
Didn't realize Miami had buildings with that many floors
Miami has an incredible skyline that just keeps growing. Also the tallest building so far I think is 85 stories.
TIL Miami has the third tallest skyline behind new york city and Chicago
It's the same tower OP's Pic was taken in
most likely panaroma tower, l view looks familiar
Soon a 100 story building (Waldorf Astoria)
What’s the HOA cost?
If you gotta ask....
Must be pretty successful, if his apartment has that many floors
He should be safe from the flooding.
Shit city
Taken with a Blackberry?
$7500/monthly with no utilities.
I’m quite curious about the foundation of a structure like that, so close to a presumably sandy shore…
same way you build skyscrapers in other cities. Drive piles down to bedrock or into clay.
Gorgeous!
Amazing view!
So how much is the rent on that place?
Cool. Hurricane evacuation has to suck, though.
So hot. So few clothes 😮💨
I stayed with a friend who lived on the 38th floor which made me queasy to look down. I’m literally sick imagining 30 floors higher than that.
Go Dolphins!!! Whats his number, so when i travel across the country to watch the Fins play, I can hit him up for a place to stay...haha
GTA6 looking good
Damn GTA 6 looks wild