Syntactical differences aside, that's almost exactly how I've been writing code for a long time with the exception of the my statement. 
my $newyork;
my $miami;

if ( exp ) {
  statement;
} else {
  statement;
}

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Although now with 5.10 you could do 
while ( <DATA> ) {
  given( $_ ) {
    when ( $_ =~ /^NEW YORK:..../ ) {
      expression;
    }
    ...
    default {
       ...
    }
  }
}

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Which is pretty nifty, imo. I'm sure there's even more compact ways you can say that as well. As a matter of practice though, as long as I can come back in 6 months and figure out what I was doing in roughly 30 seconds, I personally don't care about the style. Though, for some inexplicable reason, this always bugs me and I find it thoroughly distracting. 
while ( <DATA> )
{
  if ( expr )
  {
    expr
  }
}

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In reply to Re: Please fix my writing style by hydo
in thread Please fix my writing style by convenientstore

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