[hiknapster]

You are definitely selling something.

I was a news reporter for ten years, I know how it goes. I also know how statistics are not reported to make sure that tourists and new residents keep moving in.

And by the way, the cops are not exaggerating. How the heck can you exaggerate a murder?

Try looking at new-press.com to see the REAL deal on Lee County and your beloved Cape Coral. Paradise it is not.

[inftmyers]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

You are definitely selling something.

I was a news reporter for ten years, I know how it goes. I also know how statistics are not reported to make sure that tourists and new residents keep moving in.

And by the way, the cops are not exaggerating. How the heck can you exaggerate a murder?

Try looking at new-press.com to see the REAL deal on Lee County and your beloved Cape Coral. Paradise it is not.

ENOUGH WITH THE REAL ESTATE CONSPIRACY THEORIES. I definately DO NOT sell real estate. I don't even live in Cape Coral! Secondly who is the only county to print front page adds on the SW Fl. algae/red tide issue. That would be LEE!! I don't think the county is concerned about scaring tourists away considering the beach is our life and blood and they are reporting all the problems they are facing. I think they are truly informing people and seeking solutions!! By the way, I meant that they were exagerating by posting every little violation they deal with. I mean they even report info on DUI checkpoints they set up which again leads me to say that at least they are setting up DUI checkpoints and not just letting drunk drivers run wild. Why don't you post some other county's sheriff websites and then we can compare areas?

[ronkpat]

i lasted almost two years and im leaving.i never seen such odd balls in my life. everything about cape coral is a joke.id be better off sleeping in a cardboard box under the 59 st bridge all i see is twisted crackheads and officals that cant make anywhere else

[Strel]

Originally Posted by bitburgsarah

i have be here in Fort Myers since Dec 2006 and want to talk about the crazy **** i have witnessed and expieranced and to ask my fellow northerners if they think that life here is beyond normal...Or am i a truley crazed New yorker???
The first week i moved here i was driving on Daniels parkway at 8 am in the morning.. stoppes at a red light.. boom a drunk driving lunatic did not stop and smacked into my jeep...my whole jeep was crunched although vehicles still driveable she then un attched her suv from my car and proceeded on to the next light where she again hit a minivan also with new york plates and her vehicle was then demolished .. oh yeah i drove after the ***** and witnessed in utter disbelief of what i just saw got out of my vehichle and the women screamed at me for destroying her car...children were hurt badly in the other vehicle and this women is screaming about her car.
2nd driving on my main road a month later also in this span of time at least 3xs a day there was a fatlity on the road ... i am behind some lady driving way way to fast... she hits head on a car filled with 3 kids ... a grandma and pregnant girl... i jump out of my car and never in my life have been in a fatlity situation even living in the city for all the years i did.. witnessed this horrible situation.. this is part of my every day life here and im assuming this reckless driving is considered normal to floridians.. and they say we are the worst drivers...
rude rude rude people... cutting in lines i dont care how old you are i had a older women smack me with her envelope at the post office to get out of her way in the line she cut tright in front of me at the teller windo w already. when i told her she was rude and was acting irrational she went on some crazy southern accent rant and i was asked to leave the post office can you ******* believe this becausei wouldnt let the elder cut me.. never in my life
whats up with the garbage even nyc is cleaner then this place!!! People here must not own garbage cans i can ownly imagine what the insid eof their homes look like
The school system... give me a break
School choice WHAT????
Bus drivers talkng on cell phones no seatbelts???WHAT????
Busses dropping off my child at the wrong stop 10 blocks down
I pick my 5yr old son at the same bus stop everyday well his busdriver must of forgot his stop ... drops him off 10 blocks away unnattended no one there i can see a lil blonde kid running down the streets crying and holy**** its my baby ...you just forgot outta knowwhere ...where his stop was nad IS IT NORMAL HERE TO DROP OFF A 5YR OLD UNATTENDED AT THE WRONG BUS STOP HERE because when i calle dthe school to complain which by the way is an hour away the schools sais to me "sometimes these things happen"
I now drive him to school.. also the bus would drop him off anytime around 430 to 630 always a diff time NOT KIDDING
Last week
I go to get my mail i see a jeep parked on my the side of my lawn which just so happend to be the identical of my jeep which was parked in my driveway.. i notice a man strddling my phone pole.. he gets up shows me some crumpled up embark phone comp pass and sais(i was talking on the phone as this happends) oh that explains why i cant tap into your line.. mam can u get off of your phone so i can tap your line to call my embark job to tell them my jeep broke down..SAY WHAT??? he has a cell phone on his leg and a laptop in his hand i said to him if you are from embark wheres your embark truck and why dont u just use your cell phone... he studders and i got scared ran into my house go to call my boyfriend and he jumps in his so called not working jeep and drives off
I call the phone company they say he some line hacker who trys to get personal info ... that this happends all the time and if you want to get your line checked we will come out an d service it for a hefty fee
When we moved into our house the first day .. abug women comes and asksif we want to spray for insects i tell her absolutley not and she sais well the tubes are already placed in your house so all we have to do is just pu tthe chemicals in.. I ask where do the chemicals go??? She sais through your walls.
Soooo let me get this straight you want me and my family to breathe in harmful chemicals in our house...
What????

ANd so on and so on
Is this normal here.. i would like to here more stories got any???

Funny thing is, Florida was nothing like this until the Yankees started coming here by the thousands.

[DailyJournalist]

Originally Posted by Strel

Funny thing is, Florida was nothing like this until the Yankees started coming here by the thousands.

And it was all great when it was just a redneck state ? Yankees are what brought money to this state and at least made it livable.

[faithfulFrank]

Folks, let's get back on topic......NY'ers feeling homesick...??

For the record, i'm a lifelong NY'er feeling homesick......FOR FLORIDA.

I just shoveled and snowblowed today, and we have a storm coming tonight. It is actually warm today.....28 degrees. That is whewn you get dumped on with snow. when it gets colder, it is too cold to snow.

i'm glad there are NY'ers who want to move back to NY...you can buy my house when I move down to Florida in two years.......

Frank d.

[DailyJournalist]

Originally Posted by faithfulFrank

I just shoveled and snowblowed today, and we have a storm coming tonight..

Rub it in faithful frank, I wish that was me

[TANaples]

Originally Posted by DailyJournalist

Rub it in faithful frank, I wish that was me

At little background first. We moved from the West Village to the Chelsea area of Manhattan at 21st St. and 7th Avenue when I was 13. By the time we moved there, my Dad and I hardly ever spoke. We declared a truce when my older daughter was born. We made our peace right before he passed away in September 1983.

I was awakened just last night to the sound of someone calling my name and gently shaking me. As I slowly opened my eyes, I could see the blurry figure of a man standing over me. As my eyes focused, I could see it was my Dad. Stunned and still half asleep, I looked around the room. I was in my teenage bed and bedroom. Dad softly whispered to me, "Don't be afraid." "Get up." "Go to the living room, and look out the window".

I slowly got up and felt the cold linoleum under my bare feet as I walked into the darkness of the livingroom. The blinds to the apartment windows had been pulled up to the top. As I went to the window, I could see the street lights on 21st St. It was SNOWING. As I looked downward to the street below, I could see the line of white monoliths lining the street. The stairs and stoop to the building were completely covered. It was a SNOWSTORM. Dad's voice gently said behind me, "Get dressed." "We will go for a walk."

I quickly pulled on all of my snow gear from my bureau drawers and walked to the apartment door. Dad was waiting for me there dressed in his winter longshoreman's work clothes. Neither of us spoke a word as we rode the elevator down and outside the building.

I walked outside and jumped down the stairs to the sidewalk. The snow was well over my knees and above my boots. We started walking towards 7th Avenue in the still virgin snow. The snow was rapidly filling up the inside of my boots. My jeans were getting soaking wet and cold. I could feel the snow pelting my face and and getting in my eyes. I titled my head up to the sky and opened my mouth as a young child would do. I could taste the icy pellets in my mouth. It all felt so invigorating!

When we reached 7th Avenue, we stopped. The avenue was deserted. The only sound was the whistling of the winds. I stood there and watched the snow in the street lights and the walk/don't walks signs that called to no one. I turned around to say something to Dad, but he was gone. Just then a piercing sound broke the silence. I jumped awake in my own bed to the sound of my alarm clock calling me to my workday.

Thank you, Dad, for the Christmas Present. I know you have found peace. Thank you, too, for bringing me a small part of it.

[Luiso]

Originally Posted by JunoAqua

holy **** sarah. im so sorry im here in NY contemplating a move to FL and its stories like these that make me stay put. I guess the grass isnt always greener on the other side. I would have to give up a lot to start over buying a house with a 30 year mortgage, as opposed to my 15 here in NY. Pluse i do here this from other people the amount of deadbeats and wackos down in Florida.

I cant fathom living in NY and getting used to this badly run state .
Things you take for granted in NY like ONE Mayor who actually does something not just give speeches unlike Floridas countless do nothing only speech giving mayors.

Here cops are the key stone cops .Allways something be it the recent not following up on that killed little girl in woods reported by utilty workers,growing crime.

Things your used to in NY like actual standards are not found in Florida .

I moved to S.Florida capital of the worse drivers no laws enforced part of Florida from PA 2 yrs ago and hope to be back next year.

Florida has its good points like weather but those running this place in both parties and police are a sad joke.

[Luiso]

Originally Posted by katalin

don't move to FL. I moved to FL 8 month ago from PA and I feel exactly the same way like Sarah. Fortunately I am moving back to the North where there is more civilization.

I lived in PA also and wouldnt dream of going through red lights ,weaving in and out of traffic with no turn signals at high speeds in front of police in PA.

Here in the ill run sewer of S.Florida its the norm with key stone cops doing nothing.

However the whole state of Florida is ill run and most in both political parties would have been kicked out of office in most other states as they simply dont do a thing not even basic traffic laws are enforced here.