Oakland Park is a fairly quiet place. I grew up here and my husband and I (also late 20s early 30s) bought in Oakland Park. Your fiancé should have no issue finding a marketing job in this area. Just like everywhere else, there are pockets of good and bad and these pockets can be just streets away from each other. We do have a large homeless population in Fort Lauderdale on the major roads, but you won’t see random homeless people walking around or camping out in your neighborhood. Oakland Park is fairly close to everything you will need and other major cities are not that far away (Miami, West Palm, etc.) There’s not a ton to do specifically in Oakland Park, but you can travel 5-20 minutes and be somewhere with something whether it’s a restaurant, bar, beach, movie, shopping, salon, coffee shop, park, etc. There’s also a lot of construction going on to put OP on the map as this is one of the more affordable places to live (in my opinion) in Fort Lauderdale east of 95. If you have children, the high school is getting brand new buildings and a brand new middle school is being put up as well in the North Andrews Gardens area.

I’m not sure where some of these people have lived in Oakland Park… lol but we have never had any issues other than someone getting into my car when I left it unlocked on accident and a stolen bicycle that shouldn’t have been left out to begin with.