Southwest Florida Real Estate Blog June in Southwest Florida
| June in Southwest Florida |
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| Written by Greg Snow |
| Thursday, 11 June 2009 12:58 |
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As our schoolchildren escape from their school year imprisonment (according to many of them), I can recall a song by Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, and John Bonham named "The song remains the same", www.ledzepplin.com. I have lived here in southwest Florida's Lee County since they let Ronald Regan take office for a second term and many things have stayed constant and many have REALLY changed. Let's have a look-see: The unadultered shriek from both parents and their children when school ends covers opposite ends of the joy-horror spectrum and is most likely a national , if not international given. Our weather pattern is hot and humid n the early morning changing to really hot and really humid by noon to the loud roar of thunder and lightning and pounding quick shower around 4:00ish to the heat is back on around 5:00ish. The desire for water, for consumption, bathing, cooling off, boating, swimming, or fishing is at the top of your demand survival list. Everyone's countdown for football seems to go on and we yearn for our country's passion to arrive sooner than later. The service and retail industry tightens their belts, locals vacation in N.C., Key West seems to be calling for a visit, and our real estate market goes into a kinda of somnabulistic trance and crawls through the summer and early fall. Now we have a David Bowie tune, "Changes", www.davidbowie.com, that fits the description of part of what I have observed livng here the last 24 years. Wow and a Wow..what has happened? Somebody told someone other than their family and friends for sure. Sleepy Lee County, and sister's Charlotte to our north and Collier to our south, are on the "other side of Florida, the West Coast. Lee County's population already growing strongly in 1990's, hit the gas pedal at the turn of the century and now has over 640,000 residents. There has been two bridges built over to Cape Coral, land of the early cheap real estate to expenisve real estate back to very affordable real estate today. The Sanibel Causeway has been replaced, and some remember the days when there was only a ferry out to Sanibel and Captiva Islands. New modern state of the art hospitals at Healthpark and Gulf Coast add value to our care of everyone. Southwest Florida International Airport, www.fort-myers-airport.com, is easy on access and on your eyes as it handles about 9 million passengers per year. Florida Gulf Coast University, opened in mid 1990's, is Florida's 10th state four year university and has an enrollment of nearly 12,000. The Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins currently do their spring training in Fort Myers, with Tampa Rays in Port Charlotte, and maybe the Baltimore Orioles moving here soon. Dozens of newer golf course and boating communities give recreation a demand name in southwest Florida.Besides aging semi-gracelessly myself, my two daughters, Jacly and Jordan have been born here, attended and attending school in Lee and are remarkable examlpes of sharp, smart, and productive children to benefit from all the treasures we enjoy in Lee County, Florida. More to com..... |
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