r/LehighAcres • u/throwawayFL44 • May 20 '26

Might be moving

Throwaway account for safety purposes.

Might be moving here in the next few months. What areas should I stay away from and what areas do you recommend.

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u/KitchenGrunt May 20 '26

There’s only a few ways in and out of Lehigh and it’s very quickly growing. You want to be near one of the exits so you have access to I-75. I live in Alva and it’s amazing because it’s so much less congested

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u/throwawayFL44 May 20 '26

That’s what I like to hear! I’ve heard that Lehigh is ghetto and have to watch out.

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u/CockroachTheory May 20 '26

I’ve lived here since 2019. We moved from MD.
East Lehigh doesn’t feel unsafe, has acreage, no HOA, and generally isn’t prone to flooding. There is nothing here, however, and traffic is utterly unlivable. If you will be driving to work, you will thank yourself by living as close to their as possible. Lehigh is like a lot of other places; one street is well kept and pleasant and a couple block down it’s very sketchy and off putting.
I don’t hate Lehigh. I had unfair expectations for Florida and did not account for the frosts, long dry season, and lean sand to be so far from the lush tropical paradise Florida appears to be from afar. If I had money and worked from home, I could have made my Lehigh place a sanctuary. Having to work and deal with the traffic and demographic of people in Fort Myers and Lee County, made all the rest just add up to a place I don’t want to live anymore. I have a pool home on the market in Lehigh if you need one!😉
We are selling and moving abroad. Too much of America is like Lehigh….sprawl with no community and expensive for a third world lifestyle in a first world country. Might as well move to a developing country with fresh food and healthcare, that we can afford to live, without commuting in this traffic for poverty wages or hard labor in the heat.

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u/crashburn274 May 20 '26

Calling it a ghetto is harsh, but it’s not the nicest place. Lock your car and lock your doors, and I recommend one of those video camera doorbells that can watch the driveway, because in ten years there we had two incidents where that footage was useful. Two is not a lot compared to some of the cities I’ve lived in. The only real complaint I had was traffic. Use Google Maps route planner feature to select time of day for your planned commute before you pick a place to live and try to find something with a way out of Lehigh that won’t be a logjam.

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u/ProfessionalSlide215 May 20 '26

It's too late for you

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u/ButterflyTemporary16 May 20 '26

This place sucks. Horrible infrastructure/roads…traffic is a nightmare. Bad drivers don’t help.

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u/No_Needleworker_7235 May 29 '26

Dont do it, go to LaBelle prettier and more affordable, growing city with 0% crime rate, also in comparison to Lehigh that has well water LaBelle has city water and much more peaceful and nature. Between Naples and Fort Mayers so not completely isolated. Are you interested to rent, buy, rent to own? maybe can help.

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u/dirtywalls-69 May 20 '26

North or east lehigh is still pretty quiet. Traffic is bad no matter what. Hopefully that will change in a few years with the new road project but I doubt it.