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To: King of Florida
Deerfield Beach has never been that great. Not as bad as Pompano, but close. Like so many towns in SoFla, things are nice on the beach, but not so nice when you get to the mainland.

My sister lived for awhile in a nice complex right off of Hillsborough. Once you got on Hillsborough proper, however, you were in the ghetto.

Most South Florida towns are "spotty" as my mother would say. You have beautiful nabes near the intercoastal, but dangerous ghetto/sleazy nabes further on the mainland, particularly immediately adjacent to I-95 in the case of Palm Beach/Broward/Dade Counties.

28 posted on 03/14/2008 11:46:19 AM PDT by Clemenza (I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
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To: Clemenza

That I-95 rule is very true. It’s actually a valley effect — really nice places on the beach and intracoastal, progressively depressed as you move to I-95 (and in Broward extending in many cases to the Turnpike), then things slowly get better again the farther west you go. We moved from one end to the other when we had kids — from South Beach all the way out to the SW Broward ’burbs. My wife would have nothing to do with anything in between, even though it would have been closer to work for me.


29 posted on 03/14/2008 11:58:21 AM PDT by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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