Since you live in Ft. Myers, do you know anything about Florida Gulf Coast University?

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I was hoping for some personal insight. I am well aware of the school. I am applying for a teaching position there. Just wondered about the school, area, lifestyle, etc.

Good luck..........

It is the newest of the state universities in Florida and on the small side. (Small is a relative term since 5 of the state universities in Florida are over 40K students and are mega-schools.)

The area around it is new and nice. It is pretty much a commuter college right now.

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It is a great area if you like the sun and sea.Very hot in the summer.We have 2 seasons not 4. Fire season and hurricane season.

FGCU has grown quit a bit, from a few thousand students to over 10,000 very quickly. I have heard good things about the school and every year they seem to be adding departments and so fourth.

We live about 3 miles from the campus. they just built a brand new mall with a lot of bars and restaurants, very close to the school and the airport is very close as well. A great cigar bar as well!

I love SW Florida,great fishing and outdoors type things to do.I lived in the midwest for most of my life and always wanted to be here.

Tampa and Miami are both just a couple of hours away.

Housing is the cheapest in years, the economy really sucks here now and there are NO jobs at all.The county has almost 10% unemployment. The average age here is slowly coming down and I think it is 44 now. Many younger people seem to be moving here. At one time an average of 1000 people a month were moving here.

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Where do you live now?

I agree with everything IUROX said, I live just a few miles away, and enjoy the area very much. Drywalldog

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IUROX I live in East Lansing MI for now, but I am really hoping that I get that job there. Apparently FGCU got a 12 million dollar donation to build a music building/performing arts facility and the state is going to match that donation (after some additional fund raising). The position that I applied for is a teaching position for cello, but I would also be responsible for developing a graduate program for strings as well as beefing up recruiting for the undergrad string dept. I LOVE the sun and really cant stand winter anymore. I looked at housing prices (ya I know I mentally moved there already without getting the job first) and they are really low. I was amazed at what kind of house you can get for 150-250k range. Good to hear that there are some good places to hang around there. Is it true that there are a lot of large snakes roaming around down there? I have two miniature schnauzers and I worry about letting them roam around in the backyard!!

Large snakes? Well there are pythons and other large snakes in the everglades from people letting them go and from Hurricane Andrew many years ago. all I have seen around my house are 4 foot black snakes. Of course there are gators around in the lakes and ponds.

Now the Cape has big ass Monitor lizards.But you do not want to live there. Too many rules and they are constantly finding ways to tax the fruck out of you.

Many great house in deals within a few miles from the school! I would seriously recommend buying a pool home

you will not regret it when the summer sun hits. It is brutal. Yes the midwest gets in the 90's but you ware also 1500 miles closer to the equator. You can burn here almost any day of the year.

Are you at MSU now? Well good luck, hope you make the move! Keep me updated and if you need anything please feel free to email me. I know a few good Realtors, lol if there is such a thing!

Thanks IUROX, I appreciate it. I will keep you posted, who knows, maybe we will be neighbors in 6 months!