>>11423049I actually live in that area so I can tell you exactly why Cape Coral (also known as Cape Coma) is structured this way, whereas nearby places like Sanibel, Captiva, Marco, and even Estero and Fort Myers to an extent, are not.
Cape Coral was a popular place for people that wanted to retire with access to the Caloosahatchee River but could not afford to retire on the islands at the mouth of the river and did not want to live further inland in places like Alva or Lehigh Acres. Every house was a house with a dock along a canal that led to the big river, but what happened was a decrease in property value relative to the surrounding areas, the construction boom at the start of the 21st century, and an influx of east coast spics and upstate spics. Today, Cape Coral looks like a South American favela because it is inhabited by people that came from that environment. It is run-down, crime-ridden, drug-infested, and the people that live there like it that way. On the other side of the river there is a ghetto near the downtown city that all of the blacks are clustered in, but the rest of the intolerables have been pushed to the east into Lehigh Acres.
Southwest Florida is a very unusual place, since it was always a small and largely sparsely inhabited region that is now facing a massive population increase. Most people that live here are the first generation to do so, and as a result the good and bad areas are constantly changing in size and quality. Cape Coral is not representative of the area, nor does it represent Florida, it is a place that was built by greedy people that largely did not see a return on investment. All they did was fuck up the environment and now the people that thought they would have a lovely home with a dock instead have to deal with yearly blue-green algae blooms, invasive animals that fucktard drug dealers released into the wild, and an epidemic of drug abuse that rivals the east coast.
