I’ve lived here for 7 years. Traffic is ridiculous, although I’ve got workarounds for now. I say let those with a well and septic tank keep them. Why be under he thumb of the city? Yeah, that’s what I thought. And yeah, right now-don’t go north of Pine Island.. A huge hassle. As for taxes, yeah. ANY NYer won’t blink twice at the taxes-they’re nothing. In short, way too many “urbanites” have come here. Eyeroll.
Thanks very much! We’re doing well! Storm surge is hitting some areas like Punta Gorda and the barrier islands with some flooding. Cape Coral seems to be in good shape.
I prefer Hallandale beach Florida beautiful city good beaches and restaurants and growing businesses and communities, and good night life, it’s more land for development and future growth.❤️☀️
CC was NOT built and designed for to be suburbia of Ft Myers. It was to be a retirement and vacation community. Prices were low. So the lower income people who worked in Ft Myers and environs, decided to move and turn it onto a suburban sprawl. Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte, kept its retirement/vacation area character, because they are still too far for the commuters of Ft Myers to turn it into another barely livable suburban sprawl. Now I do wish I'd look there for my house, albeit in 2019 when I was looking to move here, it was nothing like it is today, the massive influx happened after. Unfortunately, the incoming crowd is lower middle class and blue collar, hence the city is pickup truck-land - and they are aggressive and routinely traffic-lawbreaking. Red light running is routine(!), and so is road rage. My brother-in laws; one from CA (Huntington Beach) the other from Canada (Ottawa suburb) when they visit, they say they've never seen so many pickup trucks (and monster SUVs) on the road with so many bad and aggressive drivers in one place, ever. We understand the psychological reasons of this segment of the population's behavior, but I'll not get into it, and it's not fixable except with heavy traffic law enforcement (red light cameras) and a much higher police presence.
Cape Cuba it what they call it now !. My mom was the first resident born here , grandpa was one of the first sheriffs and owned the only cab company.. It was a great town years ago ,but is steadily declining..
1000 car washes and 1 Famous Footwear, basically Payless. No real clothing stores either, Kohl’s, Burlington, Ross and TJ Maxx and about 15 Goodwills. Driving into to Cape on Cape Coral bridge looks like Lebanon or North Korea. No treelined sidewalks to make walking and biking bearable except Kismet, North Del Prado and Veterans. No mans land. Put those wide sidewalks on Sahara Barbara and South Del Prado and on our Parkways
unregulated growth , crime risiing fast , flooding everytime it rains , wait till after the economy crashes - houses have already droped by 35 - 50,000 k , the list is long
