Cocount Creek Questions (Miami, Tampa, Coral Springs: for sale, condos, townhome)

[SnHominid]

I posted this to the general Florida forum first, but someone suggested I post it here as well:

My wife and I currently live in Tampa, but have both just accepted jobs, one in Davie and one in Boca Raton. We're just out of school and looking to start a family. We also have family in Boynton Beach, and want it to be relatively easy to visit them (and get their help when the baby comes). We think we can spend 200-250k on a 2 or 3 bdr condo/townhome, and we would consider moving again in 3-5 years (to get into better school districts, for instance). My wife will be working in Boca, and I would prefer that she had the shorter commute.

Cocount Creek looks like it's fairly convenient to both Davie and Boca, with decent access to the turnpike/I-95. We're looking online at a few places in the Township development, and are curious what people think of the development and overall area. I've heard the North end of Coconut Creek is nicer than the south, and am wondering whether Township is the nice part or not.

So, our main questiions:
1. Is Township a nice/safe area?
2. Is traffic out of Coral Springs (to Davie/Boca) that big a deal?
3. Should we be worried that there are 77 properites for sale in the Karanda Village area (according to Karanda Village Condos - Coconut Creek )? This seems like a lot to us, but maybe this is normal.

Thanks for all your help,

Eric

[compelled to reply]

Now keeping in mind that you have family in Boynton Beach and your wife has a definite commute to Boca I would skip right over Coconut Creek all togethger. It is not that Coconut Creek is horrible but nearby Coral Springs is a much better bet in general, especially for education, although you will experience a bit longer of a commute to Davie. OR you could move TO Davie, a very nice community with good education(probably better than Coral Springs), and your wife drives the opposite direction of rush hour flow to Boca Raton on the Turnpike, but that is still a 30 minute drive for her each day and about 40 minutes from Boynton. As far as the Township area, I really do not know at all. Your commute from Coconut Creek/ Coral Springs, by the way, to Davie is smooth sailing...until you hit I-595! Do you happen to know where in Davie the job was?

[SnHominid]

I guess it would help to tell you that we will both be teaching, me at NSU in Davie, and her at FAU in Boca. Our schedules won't always have us driving in rush hour traffic, but it is a possibility.

From what you wrote, I gather that rush hour traffic is worse going South (toward Miami?) in the morning and North in the evening.

[compelled to reply]

The north-south part actually is not even TOO bad on the turnpike,but it is certainly present. its the east-west factor on I-595 that is the pits,and from working at NSU, you have yourself a long but fairly smooth commute to NSU because you only have one exit on 595, and your wife would have a fairly easy commute to FAU as well, assuming you locate in Coral Springs or Coconut Creek.