Americans drive for work but what I've noticed as someone that grew up in Miami and Los Angeles is that these cities are a lot like New York in that they are a collection of smaller cities. So growing up, we knew what was in what neighborhood and that's what we planned around. The same in Los Angeles and New York. There are districts where you can find specific things, but when you live there, you get good at learning about what's in your local area and doing those things. And if you aren't living close to the thing you like, you move close to the thing you like.

What's lacking is public transit systems that connect the neighborhoods efficiently. And business districts tend to become centralized which causes migratory patterns.

I had hoped with the move to remote work that cities would become better at decentralization so that you could distribute business districts and entertainment districts. But all efforts I have seen governments undertake is incentivizing return-to-office policies because they are worried about the business effects.

But back to Miami, so the neighborhoods are reflective of the city's investment in neighborhoods. Little Havana and Little Haiti don't look like Coconut Grove or South Beach. Nothing stopping them from having clubs of greater size even though it's not right on the water. That should be a positive because it means more parking and thus more customers. But instead, more money is invested in the continued beautification of these areas which drives interest in businesses being there. Where as beautification of those neighborhoods doesn't seem like a an investment worth making. It's reflective of racism but let's call it narrow foresight.