[s]Probably[/s] moving to Miami - Please advise

[DrewKaree]

It's also kinda funny - what Vader said was "reasonable" for a 2-bedroom apartment ($950-1000/month) would be rent for a NI-ICE HOUSE in my area...but then again, who wants to live in a cow pasture in almost-Canuckistan?

More importantly, which law school is located there that I can attend?   

ScrewU

I bet if I put in a good word, you'd get accepted in a heartbeat

[MikeQ]

My daughter is 7 months old, so schools are of no concern.  As to debt, $120,000 is probably closer to the mark.  It's still an enormous figure, but better than 200,000 I suppose.  Tuition is $32,000 / year.  Deferring at this point is unattractive to me, both because I deferred my bachelor's degree for so long (I'm graduating in a couple months at 28 years old) and because my best hope of getting into a better school at this point is as a transfer student.  The only way I could increase my chances without starting at another school is to study for and retake the LSAT, which I'm sure I would do even as a transfer student (I scored very well the first time, but I know for a fact that I can do considerably better). 

Also, Miami is a very good school, ranked in the top 25 for international law (around 18 or 19, I believe).  It's important to remember when applying for schools that everyone applying knows that schools standards.  Every school publishes the median LSAT and GPAs for their previous entering class (as well as the 25th/75th percentiles of the LSAT scores and GPAs).  Since it costs about $100 per school to apply, most people don't apply to schools that they obviously have no chance of getting into.  The vast majority of applicants who are turned down were qualified to go to that school.  Berkeley, for example, gets over 7000 applicants per year and they only offer seats to less than 10% of those.  So putting off law school for a year in order to try again is a pretty tough prospect considering the lottery you are up against. 

I'll see what my cop friend can turn up.  I left him a message.

If you are driving from UT to here, you should put a call out to all the BYOAC members to put you up for a night along your route.  BTW, I have a brother that lives in Morgan.

University of Miami was a good school when I lived down south (20 years) ago.  Glad to hear it is still well ranked.

[billf]

It's also kinda funny - what Vader said was "reasonable" for a 2-bedroom apartment ($950-1000/month) would be rent for a NI-ICE HOUSE in my area...but then again, who wants to live in a cow pasture in almost-Canuckistan?

More importantly, which law school is located there that I can attend?   

ScrewU

I bet if I put in a good word, you'd get accepted in a heartbeat

 
Nearly spit out my drink on my keyboard.

[shmokes]

My daughter is 7 months old, so schools are of no concern.  As to debt, $120,000 is probably closer to the mark.  It's still an enormous figure, but better than 200,000 I suppose.  Tuition is $32,000 / year.  Deferring at this point is unattractive to me, both because I deferred my bachelor's degree for so long (I'm graduating in a couple months at 28 years old) and because my best hope of getting into a better school at this point is as a transfer student.  The only way I could increase my chances without starting at another school is to study for and retake the LSAT, which I'm sure I would do even as a transfer student (I scored very well the first time, but I know for a fact that I can do considerably better). 

Also, Miami is a very good school, ranked in the top 25 for international law (around 18 or 19, I believe).  It's important to remember when applying for schools that everyone applying knows that schools standards.  Every school publishes the median LSAT and GPAs for their previous entering class (as well as the 25th/75th percentiles of the LSAT scores and GPAs).  Since it costs about $100 per school to apply, most people don't apply to schools that they obviously have no chance of getting into.  The vast majority of applicants who are turned down were qualified to go to that school.  Berkeley, for example, gets over 7000 applicants per year and they only offer seats to less than 10% of those.  So putting off law school for a year in order to try again is a pretty tough prospect considering the lottery you are up against. 

I'll see what my cop friend can turn up.  I left him a message.

If you are driving from UT to here, you should put a call out to all the BYOAC members to put you up for a night along your route.  BTW, I have a brother that lives in Morgan.

University of Miami was a good school when I lived down south (20 years) ago.  Glad to hear it is still well ranked.

That's really cool.  I appreciate it a lot.  Morgan, UT?  Is he Mormon?

[MikeQ]

My daughter is 7 months old, so schools are of no concern.  As to debt, $120,000 is probably closer to the mark.  It's still an enormous figure, but better than 200,000 I suppose.  Tuition is $32,000 / year.  Deferring at this point is unattractive to me, both because I deferred my bachelor's degree for so long (I'm graduating in a couple months at 28 years old) and because my best hope of getting into a better school at this point is as a transfer student.  The only way I could increase my chances without starting at another school is to study for and retake the LSAT, which I'm sure I would do even as a transfer student (I scored very well the first time, but I know for a fact that I can do considerably better). 

Also, Miami is a very good school, ranked in the top 25 for international law (around 18 or 19, I believe).  It's important to remember when applying for schools that everyone applying knows that schools standards.  Every school publishes the median LSAT and GPAs for their previous entering class (as well as the 25th/75th percentiles of the LSAT scores and GPAs).  Since it costs about $100 per school to apply, most people don't apply to schools that they obviously have no chance of getting into.  The vast majority of applicants who are turned down were qualified to go to that school.  Berkeley, for example, gets over 7000 applicants per year and they only offer seats to less than 10% of those.  So putting off law school for a year in order to try again is a pretty tough prospect considering the lottery you are up against. 

I'll see what my cop friend can turn up.  I left him a message.

If you are driving from UT to here, you should put a call out to all the BYOAC members to put you up for a night along your route.  BTW, I have a brother that lives in Morgan.

University of Miami was a good school when I lived down south (20 years) ago.  Glad to hear it is still well ranked.

That's really cool.  I appreciate it a lot.  Morgan, UT?  Is he Mormon?

No.   He's religion free.   He use to live in Tampa and worked for Delta Airlines doing avionics.  Delta closed the maintenance hub in Tampa so he transfered to Salt Lake.  He wanted a bunch of land and Morgan had it so that is where he bought.

[shmokes]

I bet it's interesting for him.  I'll bet his town is up around 90% Mormon.  You get into Salt Lake and the number drops down to around 50%, but in the small places it's practically unanimous.

[MikeQ]

I bet it's interesting for him.  I'll bet his town is up around 90% Mormon.  You get into Salt Lake and the number drops down to around 50%, but in the small places it's practically unanimous.

He's okay with it.  He's like me.  I like everyone until they give me reason not to.  Don't preach to me and I'll like you.  Don't think your better than me because you read the bible and I'll like you.  He has acres of land so he isn't right next to his neighbors.  The closest ones are Mormon but he likes them a lot.  Nice people.

I use to work with a bunch of people from Evans & Sutherland who were from Salt Lake.  They worked on a project I worked on with IBM.  They were all Mormons.  Very nice people.  I wouldn't have know they were Mormon unless someone told me.  The huge families made me suspect it though.

[MikeQ]

My daughter is 7 months old, so schools are of no concern.  As to debt, $120,000 is probably closer to the mark.  It's still an enormous figure, but better than 200,000 I suppose.  Tuition is $32,000 / year.  Deferring at this point is unattractive to me, both because I deferred my bachelor's degree for so long (I'm graduating in a couple months at 28 years old) and because my best hope of getting into a better school at this point is as a transfer student.  The only way I could increase my chances without starting at another school is to study for and retake the LSAT, which I'm sure I would do even as a transfer student (I scored very well the first time, but I know for a fact that I can do considerably better). 

Also, Miami is a very good school, ranked in the top 25 for international law (around 18 or 19, I believe).  It's important to remember when applying for schools that everyone applying knows that schools standards.  Every school publishes the median LSAT and GPAs for their previous entering class (as well as the 25th/75th percentiles of the LSAT scores and GPAs).  Since it costs about $100 per school to apply, most people don't apply to schools that they obviously have no chance of getting into.  The vast majority of applicants who are turned down were qualified to go to that school.  Berkeley, for example, gets over 7000 applicants per year and they only offer seats to less than 10% of those.  So putting off law school for a year in order to try again is a pretty tough prospect considering the lottery you are up against. 

I'll see what my cop friend can turn up.  I left him a message.

If you are driving from UT to here, you should put a call out to all the BYOAC members to put you up for a night along your route.  BTW, I have a brother that lives in Morgan.

University of Miami was a good school when I lived down south (20 years) ago.  Glad to hear it is still well ranked.

That's really cool.  I appreciate it a lot.  Morgan, UT?  Is he Mormon?

I talked to John.  He said Coral Gables is nice and is where the University is.  However, it is expensive.  He live 40 mile outside of downtown Miami and he says it takes an hour to make the commute.

He said the best thing to do would be to look for apartments and rental property that fits your $$ level and then email him the location.  He can tell you how good/bad the area is.

I'll PM his email to you.

[shmokes]

Thanks.  Thanks.  One thousand times thanks.

That is an awesome resource.  My wife is going to be crazy excited when she finds out that we'll have that option.  We've been looking at places quite a bit, but mostly to get an idea of prices and just out of excitement, etc.  We are planning to move by July 1st if she hasn't got a job, but she is applying for jobs now.  If something came through before then she would move earlier (I'm pretty much locked in until July 1st). 

Thanks again.

[MikeQ]

PM Sent.

You probably already have seen this but I thought I'd pass it along anyway.

http://www.sa.miami.edu/off-campus-services/off-campus-housing/

[tommy]

Oh, i almost forgot to tell you the best part of living in Florida, it applies to where i am and where you say you will be....no buying beer past 12 midnight. Better stock up early if you're a drinker.

It's a damn shame a grown man can't walk into a store and buy whatever he feels like it at anytime.

[DrewKaree]

It's a damn shame a grown man can't walk into a store and buy whatever he feels like it at anytime.

....or you

[tommy]

Don't be a doody head. 

[ChadTower]

In MA the liquor stores are all closed well before midnight anyway.

[tommy]

In MA the liquor stores are all closed well before midnight anyway.

7/11 is open 24 hours.

If i suddenly have an urge to wake up at 3 am and decide i want to go buy a beer i should have that right. It may be a bit crazy, but i want that right to be crazy. Think I'll go talk to my congressman now. 

[ChadTower]

7/11 is open 24 hours.

In MA very few retail stores can carry alcohol.  It's a bit more lenient within 10 miles of the border for some reason, something about "losing sales to the other state".  Even those that do have to have their alcohol in a gated section of the store that they can close off while the other parts of the store are still open.

[tommy]

The reason they do this here is to stop all the drunken punks from driving around all night crashing into people while hopped up on the beer. I really can't understand it though, i only hit 1 or two people. 

But really, i have to pay for others mistakes as life goes.

[ChadTower]

Is it that hard to keep a case of beer in the basement for just such occasions?

[tommy]

Basement, you're funny, no basements in florida. I guess i could stock up as i've told shmokes to in another post here... but it's the point of the thing.

[ChadTower]

If you had a cold beer you wouldn't care about that point.

[tommy]

 

[CheffoJeffo]

It's a damn shame a grown man can't walk into a store and buy whatever he feels like it at anytime.

....or you

Talk about trampling all over a guys dreams. 

 

[shmokes]

I live in rural Utah.  The only place allowed to sell liquor, wine or real beer (beer with more than 3.2% alcohol) is the state liquor store.  The liquor store closes at 7:00 p.m. and is not open on Sundays or holidays.  Trust me, Florida will be an upgrade

[ChadTower]

Believe it or not, NH is pretty restrictive on alcohol sales.  "spirits" and wine only in state liquor stores, only beer in private retail stores.  All retail alcohol sales stops before midnight and restaurants/bars stop at 1am.  I can't remember if you can buy alcohol on Sunday but you must be able to since that is the justification for allowing MA stores within 10-15 miles of the NH border able to sell on sunday.

[boykster]

WA is pretty liberal about liquor/wine but not quite as much as say California.

We can buy beer and wine in grocery stores 7 days a week between 6am and 2am.  Liquor is only available at state run liquor stores, most of which are open M-sat, but a select few are now also open on sundays.  There is no set closing time for the stores (depends on store) except there is a hard 2am cutoff on sales.  I think the latest liquor store I know if is open until 1am (in seattle).

bars are open 7 days a week and serve until 2am.