I live in Margate is a city by Coral Springs, 20 min from the Ft Lauderdale beach. 2 min from a huge quilting store with thousand of bolts of fabric. I belong to the Coral Springs Quilting Guild, 100+ members with nice programs througout the year. One Quilt show per year and is not very big nor innovative.
Very hot the entire year, if we are lucky we have 2 weeks of cold to use jackets, mosquitoes at the parks if you go to them! I dont! If i can help it but nothing that cannot be fixed with some Off.
Be aware that each adult needs a car or have somebody to drive you everywhere. The pulic transportation is non-existing (well, it exists but is not reliable and you can spend hours under the heat if the hourly bus decides not to run)
There are very nice rental pet friendly places, I have 2 friend in differkent ones, both pay abou $1300-$1400 for a 2-3 bedroom townhouse/ first floor appt.
Workwise in the field you mentioned I dont know.
We are 40 miles of miami, at least 1+hour, the traffic inMiami is very bad but not much here in Broward County.
Not sure what else to tell you. I came from a four season country to here 15 yrs ago, I do miss the change of seasons but not the winter.
Good luck and let us know how it goes once you settle in.
Andrea