Finding a place in South Florida near and around Boca!

I've just moved to Florida from Boston for work and I'm looking for a studio/1bed 1 bath accommodation. For reference, I'm a single 23 year old guy and my budget is around $1600 but if there really isn't anything nice I might push it up to $1700. I've been looking at places and I'm so confused about where to live and what areas are safe, so far I've looked at places in Pompano Beach and I'm ngl some houses were nice and appeared to be safe but then some of them just didn't give out a good feeling, they smelled a bit funny and just felt a little unsafe. For example I found something on Sample street which didn't feel safe and this was just west of US 1.

I'm absolutely lost and just wanna find a nice safe 1 B 1 Bath apartment and would love to hear any suggestions you can offer!