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Grew up on SWFL. You can tell when you enter into cape coral because the trees disappear and you start seeing empty fields with a couple of houses on top of mounds.

I don't miss SWFL.

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I have lived in SWFL and Central florida most my life and have never been to Cape Coral. Anytime you mention cape coral in Naples peoples eyes light up in fear, like its some horrific place. The news in Naples is pretty suppress and the only thing you ear bad that occurs come from Fort Myers or Cape coral.

However, I have been fighting the temptation to purchase a decent sized house on their on the water. The same house in Naples would easily go for several hundred thousands more. We have some friends that live their and they swear its not as bad as people say? One of these days I need to make it out there.

Oh yeah, my dad pays $500 a year in property taxes for a house on a creek with gulf access. Pretty cheap! But the con is, there's no tech work around. That's the reason I ended up leaving.

Plus I wanted a life change. And sticking around the kids I went to high school with wasn't going to provide that :P

Just went for the first time to buy a replacement monitor. It's shocking how accurate the above statement is.

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