Pompano Beach, Florida SperlingViews

Too many people; too many homeless; too many doing crack cocaine; too many living on the beach, sleeping on the benches and in abandoned bldgs. Too many sex offenders and criminals. If you like cars - hundreds of thousands of cars- this is the place to be! Come on down! Great weather but just make sure if you have to drive anywhere you leave plenty of time. Ive lived here in Fl all my life and in Pompano over 30 yrs. It used to be a sleepy little town all the northerners would make fun of us and how slow we were and how superior they were to us. Then they all starting moving here instead of just visiting. Sometimes it seems like the whole country- and half the world is moving here, the way the developers are building and the way roads keep getting wider and wider. Forget public transport unless you have all day and just one place to go. When I meet someone who isn't a professional, I check them out on criminal and public records, and the sex offenders website to find out if they are a habitual criminal because there are a lot of them here. I tell my child to look back and forth and RUN across the street if he must cross one, since I've seen 2 bicyclers and 3 pedestrian bodies on the street and 3 of them were dead - hit by cars. I like it here because I've lived here all my life, but if I could move somewhere and know I'd have a good job and less cars, I think I'd go.

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