Why is Ft. Meyers known as 'Little Pakistan' in rap songs?

[jim09091]

Originally Posted by FortMyers21

It all depends in the area you are at. Oviously your not going to see why they call it lil Pakistan if your in that area of down town. If you go to the Dunbar area and near there, kids that are 4 years old are running around bare foot with choppers and glocks, and live on the streets. And of course Miami is going to win, its way more populated than Fort Myers. you cant compare them to each other like that. Thats like saying Houston Texas would win in crime and being way more dangerous than Key West Florida. You know what im saying? And im not trying to start any fight or arguments. But it is true, it depends were you go. And not all areas of Fort Myers are bad but its changing quick and its not going to stay the same long. Ive lived here almost my whole life (moved here from Miami) and its deffinitly going down hill.

I just happened to come back across this.

I agree completely. Every area has some tough, bad places. Fort Myers is no exception. Some of the bad areas of Fort Myers are really bad. But it is not the whole city or the region. In some areas it literally is a block by block thing.

I compared Fort Myers to Miami because there is a certain element of Fort Myers that is proud of their crime-ridden blocks and thinks that they are on par with Miami. What they don't realize is that they aren't even on the radar screen.

I was in and out of Dunbar a bunch of times this year. I survived... no one shot me. It is sad though that some people living there want the world to think that you will die if you step into their territory. I guess living on the east coast of Florida and living next door to Roxbury (in Boston) for many years has skewed my perception.

And sorry "know some" but I have never seen my friends get rapped. I have, on the other hand, known plenty who were murdered, beaten and destroyed by scum-sucking low-class trash that don't even deserve to be called humans.

[mac702]

Im moving back to southwest florida after living in las vegas for 9 years and im not at all afraid of crime down there. ha ha ha
They don't have any real criminals down there come on, kids putting on a good act maybe.
Our mayor oscar goodman is an ex mob lawyer who also wants to build a mafia museum in the land of los wages, come on our mayor is a gangsta.

no but las vegas is ok i have had alot of fun here and met some real people here who have been real good friends, there are normal people, and yes there is more than just the strip

[tjstrain]

Holy crap! you guyz make this place sound like i'm back in Philadelphia! or any other big city for that matter. It's nothing like that. Sure there's crime and drugs but nothing like those big cities. Actually downtown ft Myers is looking really nice the way it's been fixed up.

[tjstrain]

wrap song?????? who listens to that trash????? what else do you expect to here in that trash crap music!? well, maybe there's degree's of wrap, I shouldn't stereotype all of it together, sorry. I'm gonna turn Frank Sinatra back on and calm down. Hold on, I do really like Flo-Rida's low, maybe i spoke to fast.

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by tjstrain

. Hold on, I do really like Flo-Rida's low, maybe i spoke to fast.

I'm 47 and don't like rap but I like that song. The guy is very talented.

[Chicken Wing]

The rapper, Plies, is from East Dunbar. You can YouTube his videos. He's fairly popular these days.

[tjstrain]

East Dunbar, I didn't know there were divisions in Dunbar!????? All of the bad news WE HERE never mentions sections, Just DUNBAR.

[FormerDogDad]

Grew up in Fort Lauderdale (went to BA, Stranahan, and Dillard, locals can tell you where and what they were in the 80's and 90's) near 27th and Sistrunk in Tater Town. Spent over a deacde in 2 branches USMC,& USA. Spent time in every war zone since Operation Overlord, and lived in Tice for the last 6 years, and own property I maintian in Dunbar. The only thing Pakistan about Fort Myers is the shop owners, which are more American than a lot of Americans I have met. The biggest drug problem here, is all along Palm Beach Blvd., which is 500 feet from where I sit. The rest of the problem is that grow houses keep sprouting up faster than the cops can bust them. The real problem is WORK! There is none! DUH!!! All in all, it's someone from the not so good part of town pretending they grew up in hells kitchen. Kind of like the Italian guy who acts the part, dresses the part, and talks the part, but isn't even connected with thier own pecker, let alone the maffia they claim to be connected with. Like any city, this place has it's good parts, and bad, but nothing worth writing home about, unless you go looking for trouble. Then it will find you, but that's anywhere. Trust me, I used to work the graveyard shift at a local dump as a cashier in the middle of cracktown. My backup was an 83 year old woman, and a coffee pot. I walked to and from work through "the hood" and I never worried about coming home in the morning. Again, if you look for trouble, it will find you. And by the way, this place is nothing like Pakistan, or Afghanistan. It's more like Broke-asses-istan. Everyone's broke, so naturally crime increases. Nothing near Miami. By the way, the Sean Taylor murderers lived in Lehigh Acres, about 5-10 miles east of Ft Myers. One of them used to frequent the place I used to cashier at for the single Black and Mild he would pretend to smoke and then choke on. Now a day's he's choking on something else thanks to the court system.

[FormerDogDad]

Originally Posted by Chicken Wing

The rapper, Plies, is from East Dunbar. You can YouTube his videos. He's fairly popular these days.

East Dunbar kind of confuses me. To my knowledge Dunbar is bordered on the east by Six mile Cypress and on the west by Fowler. My place is near Dougs on Edison and Henderson. I don't know where east and west Dubar meet. I never heard anyone refer to it like that. I would guess it to be Ford St? Haven't checked out plies. My brother is in to rap and mentioned Plies. Metallica and Eric Clapton are more my style.
I will say one thing though. Since the city annexed the area, it has gotten a lot better. Before it was in the city limits, it was much worse than it is now. It's sick but I feel a lot more at home seeing the dealers and cops play tag than driving through the gate of one of these cookie cutter communities. The dealers only have a problem with you if you interfere in their operations. They'll outright attack you. You always know where you stand with them.
A homeowners association will smile in your face, stab you in the back, and reposess your sh-t under bylaws, covenants, and other instruments of communism allowed under current law. I'd rather deal with the drug dealers and cops. At least I know where I stand, and they won't tell me what color to paint my place.