This gives me a really weird feeling.
"The city has over 400 mi (640 km) of navigable waterways, more than any other city on earth. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Coral,_Florida
American cities that are mankind's hubris:
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Cape Coral, Florida
Is Vegas hubris or just regular pride? AFAIK it's not like, daring nature to obliterate it.
Any city in the southwest is basically founded on the hubris that the water can never dry up, Vegas especially because of the garishness
I think it's fair to say it is. They really do have water issues and relies on the vast vast majority of it coming from Colorado River which incidentally is and has been at its lowest recorded level for almost 10 years now I think. It's going to dry up in the future for sure. Especially considering how much Vegas has expanded its suburbs further and further.
Correction: it's a city built for and by it*lians
Which "explains" these kind of things:
https://lucasitaly.com/2019/02/01/venetian-house-numbers/
https://www.italyheaven.co.uk/veneto/venice/navigating.html
The economy in Cape Coral is based on health care services, retail, and real estate/construction.
:inconceivable:
Floridian housing developer, slapping the vibrant wetland ecosyatem that used to be there, saying "this bad boy can fit so many retirees"
So I’ll be honest, I have little love for wetland ecosystems, I just don’t find them that interesting and I find them unpleasant to be in. But honestly that just makes this shit worse, why the fuck would you want to live in this place, it’s a fucking swamp and the weather is absolutely miserable, who thought this was a good idea
I'm glad the everglades exist I just don't want to go anywhere near them.
The Boaters want to live here, judging by all the boats and docks I see.
Swamps can be pretty miserable, but wetlands in other parts of the US can be lovely places to hike (on windy day or with bug spray). And aside from hosting awesome species like terrapins and migratory birds, coastal wetlands are important for preventing flood damage too. Not that Amerikkkans care enough to keep them.
Many places don't deserve sea level rise, but cape coral absolutely does.
I discovered this place once I was bored on Google maps and zoomed in on here by sheer luck, I was horrified.
How do they keep all those channels clean? How did they make the foundations and shit? What happen with the tides? What happen in a hurricane? What will happen the next fucking year? WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO THAT POOR CAPE? WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK
How do they keep all those channels clean?
If my experience with canals in the rest of Florida is any indication, they don’t.
looks like it's technically on a river, which i assume flows, so that probably counts for something?
I tried to do some nature walking the first time I was in FL and I had a tiny bug fly in my eye and my mouth at one point. The mosquitoes where everywhere but they seemed 10x worse when going through any wooded area. It was miserable. Couldn't enjoy it and regretted even attempting it
What if we built another Venice, but made it an incredibly stupid and nasty one?
The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door.
194k people live there and its 74% white. wish i owned a skin cancer clinic $$$
then it clarifies "non-latino white" below that. american census doesn't know what to do with latinos in general, so they lump them with white, and then have a second category of "non-latino white" :amerikkka-clap:
There a LOT of dipshits called "Schroeder" and "Rossi" born in latin america. Especially in fucking Florida.
I love having to check separate boxes for both white and latino every time i fill out a form because for some reason "mixed race" doesn't apply to Latinos
"Latinos" is not a race, it's like saying "asian". You can have white latinos, but yeah I guess you meant brown latinos.
ugh street view it's just empty desolation, terrible looking homes and vast, empty yards
