Forbes Ranks Best, Worst Cities For Job Growth

Forbes is head-up-ass retarded and obviously no one reads the newspapers or watches the news. budget cuts, layoffs, buyouts, foreclosures and no matter what the economy is, taxes rise, the price of food and gas rises and everyone is left with their pockets torn open.

i'm from cape coral
not punta gorda stupid website

There are NO JOBS in Cape Coral Even the City workers are being LAID OFF , Forbes IS NUTS

Use of LSD must be on the rise at Forbes!

Job growth??? Wha!?? Cape Coral has been b***h-slapped every which way with foreclosures and a STAGNATE job market. Unless, of course, they're talking about all the wonderful opportunities flipping burgers and asking the all important question: "Paper or plastic?"

Fortunately, real people can post the truth.

Speak SPANISH and youll fit right in cape miami!!!

OOPS meant Cape Cuba!! OOPS meant cape Coral.AND

what few jobs are left requires or perfers BI-LINGUAL F____ That!!!

WOW HOW TRUE

i went to the target job fair last year, it looked like a deportation center. not only where all the jobs filled, my caucasian friend actually recieved a letter thanking him for applying but telling him the positions where full. that letter was in spanish.

people are cheap as hell in cape coral!!!! nobody is hiring at all my g-friend has faxed 150 resumes since march and no job yet. but all the illegal aliens are employed. cape coral= the number one city for illegals to find a job and stack up in a house that cost less than 600 a month to rent!!!!!!!!!!

wtfhuh723 wrote:

people are cheap as hell in cape coral!!!! nobody is hiring at all my g-friend has faxed 150 resumes since march and no job yet. but all the illegal aliens are employed. cape coral= the number one city for illegals to find a job and stack up in a house that cost less than 600 a month to rent!!!!!!!!!!

I have lived here a "LONG" time and you are right -this "IS"true about the Cape-I Loved it & now this place "WENT To He-LL !!!

I have been applying for jobs everywhere myself and nothing pans out. My bills have mostly all gone to collection. I never thought I'd see the day. I actually happened to come across a job as manager for McDonald's. The pay started at $7.10/hr and the majority of the shifts were overnight with no overtime. I'm pretty sure, with that pay, at the end of the week I would be further into debt. So, what do we do? What can all the hard working, tax-paying, natural born citizens do to keep their heads above water? I can normally do the work of several people, I'm very well educated, excellent at both verbal and written communications and I look damn good in a suit. This is simply unjust. What do we do?

kick their asses back where they f-n belong and openings will appear

see me casa capeeee coorrral , must be bi-lingual to queilify lol

Cape Coral the best"WHAT's Forbes smokin????
Ya cant get a job in thet town,And Bi-Lingual is required.

Gone to Pot Paradise,Crap Coral

Lee Co Schools hiring all kinds of jobs

Oops, Lee Schools perform Drug and Alcohol Screening

New Here wrote:

Oops, Lee Schools perform Drug and Alcohol Screening

Funny-The schools just LAID_OFF tons of employees...NEW HERE Like anything in life GET familiar take time and study.And there are also many UNemployed comedians -So your humor sucks

CAPE CORAL STINKS wrote:

Speak SPANISH and youll fit right in cape miami!!!
OOPS meant Cape Cuba!! OOPS meant cape Coral.AND
what few jobs are left requires or perfers BI-LINGUAL F____ That!!!

Thank you for some true information. we were considering a move to cc but I think I will pass, seems worse than detroit!

OK, first let’s take a time-out and read the actual Forbes.com story, not the bastardized versions that abound on the ‘Net.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/10/best-cities-...

Reading closely, you’ll find references to the fastest job growth over a FIVE-YEAR period that ENDED in 2006. Reading closer still, you’ll find reference to “As the housing market skidded, the fallout has been severe … Job growth slowed dramatically … in 2007.”

And in a related sidebar …
http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/10/best-cities-...

… you’ll see Forbes.com shows “Cape Coral Metro area population” of 591,000. Obviously that’s the not the correct population (it was more like 150,000 at the time). The higher population number suggests that Forbes may have looking at the entire Cape Coral-Fort Myers Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the U.S. Census. THAT metro includes both those cities and MOST, if not all, of Lee County.

So… putting it all in perspective, I would say, yes The Cape had phenomenal job growth over five years (5%+ annually), and that growth has hemorrhaged over the past, oh, 18 months or so.

Your turn …

FloridaNews wrote:

OK, first let’s take a time-out and read the actual Forbes.com story, not the bastardized versions that abound on the ‘Net.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/10/best-cities-...
Reading closely, you’ll find references to the fastest job growth over a FIVE-YEAR period that ENDED in 2006. Reading closer still, you’ll find reference to “As the housing market skidded, the fallout has been severe … Job growth slowed dramatically … in 2007.”
And in a related sidebar …
http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/10/best-cities-...
… you’ll see Forbes.com shows “Cape Coral Metro area population” of 591,000. Obviously that’s the not the correct population (it was more like 150,000 at the time). The higher population number suggests that Forbes may have looking at the entire Cape Coral-Fort Myers Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the U.S. Census. THAT metro includes both those cities and MOST, if not all, of Lee County.
So… putting it all in perspective, I would say, yes The Cape had phenomenal job growth over five years (5%+ annually), and that growth has hemorrhaged over the past, oh, 18 months or so.
Your turn …

They shouldn't label Cape Coral if they are including Ft. Myers with the total census. That's false. If they got their head out of their asses, they would have done their research and figured that there was no way 591k ppl are living in the cape let alone allowing severely outdated statistics to hit shelves 2 YEARS after they conducted their research. People don't need Forbes to tell them what to think of this place, but as a tool for knowledge about the area in potential moves and relocations, they'd be better off sticking to current statistics instead of labeling false hope in a place of dramatic recession.
all yours...

Yahoo money had Lee county {today] listed as the top ten places for grouth???
The next sentence addressed the terrible housing market!!!
Which way is it??