Coral Springs is about six miles north of me and about ten miles west of me, I live right next to Fort Lauderdale beach within walking distance.
It's a lot cheaper to live there then where I live and has some very nice parts and some not so great but still good parts. It rains in the west more then the east and is also a bit more humid with less of a breeze and more mosquitoes, but still all of this part of Florida rocks. You would be about 30 minutes, maybe less, from the beach.
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