Southeast Florida

Southeast Florida is by far the most glamorous part of Florida, with the glittery high-rises, couture-clad residents and star-studded nightlife of Miami, Fort Lauderdale and the Palm Beaches making their presence known throughout pop culture. Visitors to this area, take note – pack your trendiest, flashiest gear and be prepared to wear it, even when taking a stroll to the corner store for a bottle of ibuprofen, because the fashion show is on, all day and all night, seven days a week. And with hundreds of nightclubs, restaurants, art galleries, boutiques and live music venues throughout the area, you'll never run out of places to strut your stuff.

Of course, not everyone is delighted at the idea of spending all night hopping from club to bar with hordes of youngsters wearing four hundred dollar sunglasses, and so these people need only drive a few miles north to the beach communities of Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach and Boca Raton. While these are still affluent communities, the glitz and glamour factor is decidedly lower here than in Miami and Palm Beach. Spending time on the beach, shopping, deep-sea fishing and boating are favorite ways to spend a day in this area.