Moving to Greater Fort Myers: The Un-Tourist Guide

This practical and lively guide is essential if you are making greater Fort Myers your new home. "Moving to Greater Fort Myers: The Un-Tourist Guide" provides all the vital information you need to settle in comfortably and quickly. Join more than 700,000 people in Lee County, Florida who currently enjoy year-round sunshine, waterfront homes, fishing and boating, while pursuing careers or retirement. Our goal is to help you make the most of our communities by showing you how to: • Choose a place to live that suits your lifestyle • Determine the best schools • Relocate your business or launch a new one • Find the best shopping and dining • Participate in festivals, the arts, and outdoor fun • Assimilate quickly within your community

"Honestly, when I moved here at the age of 28, I thought it would be a stopover to a big city and a larger television market, but at the end of my first contract, I knew I did not want to live anywhere else. I loved the smell of the warm salt air, even the humidity felt good. No this was home. My children rarely wear shoes, do not own winter coats, and learned to swim before they could walk. -- And that is just the way we like it." --Kellie Burns, NBC-2 News Evening Anchor MOVING TO Greater Fort Myers This practical and lively guide is essential if you are making greater Fort Myers your new home. "Moving to Greater Fort Myers: The Un-Tourist Guide" provides all the vital information you need to settle in comfortably and quickly. Join more than 700,000 people in Lee County, Florida who currently enjoy year-round sunshine, waterfront homes, fishing and boating, while pursuing careers or retirement. Our goal is to help you make the most of our communities by showing you how to: • Choose a place to live that suits your lifestyle • Determine the best schools • Relocate your business or launch a new one • Find the best shopping and dining • Participate in festivals, the arts, and outdoor fun • Assimilate quickly within your community READ THIS BOOK TO FIND WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: • Cost of living • Utilities • Property taxes • Real estate • Renting vs. buying • Neighborhoods • Furniture and interior design • Enjoying the outdoors • Florida fashions • Grocers and gourmet shops • Pre-K through high school choices • Colleges and universities • Associations and community groups • Moving tips • Top employers • History of Greater Fort Myers • Healthcare resources • Infant and toddler care • Local media • Sports teams • Fitness opportunities • Boating and beaches • Economic development • Important phone numbers and websites

Our author, Laura Hess, was fortunate enough to grow up in Southwest Florida and was raised in Cape Coral, where she attended middle school and high school. She attended Edison State College in Fort Myers. She loves this part of the world, particularly greater Fort Myers. So, this book has been a labor of love for Laura. Laura spent many years working with prospective homeowners in Southwest Florida to get them the mortgages they need to purchase the homes that they really wanted. So, she understands the essential information that they need to settle quickly into our area. She also served as the Web Marketing Manager for the Internet Services Group of Florida, LLC helping them grow their web marketing division. She created lots of content in the form of e-books, news releases, blog posts, and social media updates. Laura brings her extensive knowledge of living in Southwest Florida to the pages of Moving to Greater Fort Myers in order to enable new and future residents to settle quickly and easily into their new communities. She is happily married to Jeffrey Hess and the mother of two wonderful children.