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Old 02-07-2015, 09:45 AM
 
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I will be relocating with my company from New Jersey to the Bonita Springs area. I'm considering settling into Stoneybrook in Estero. I have a family of (5); Myself, my wife, two teenage girls and a pre-teen boy, and a mini-poodle I'm looking for opinions on the Stoneybrook community and Estero in general...quality of life, cleanliness, demographics (families or retirees), activities for the kids, schools (middle school and high school). Thank in advance for your help.

Sidebar, my wife is a middle school science teacher and will be seeking employment in the area schools. If anyone has any tips or suggestions on this, please chime in.
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Old 02-07-2015, 12:10 PM
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I will be relocating with my company from New Jersey to the Bonita Springs area. I'm considering settling into Stoneybrook in Estero. I have a family of (5); Myself, my wife, two teenage girls and a pre-teen boy, and a mini-poodle I'm looking for opinions on the Stoneybrook community and Estero in general...quality of life, cleanliness, demographics (families or retirees), activities for the kids, schools (middle school and high school). Thank in advance for your help.

Sidebar, my wife is a middle school science teacher and will be seeking employment in the area schools. If anyone has any tips or suggestions on this, please chime in.
We looked in Stoneybrook several years ago and actually made a couple of offers in there. Nice place but in the last few years it has gone through a near bankrutcy filing for the golf course and has had big issues with erosion of the lake banks. Both ended up costing quite a bit and I believe there are special assessments being imposed for the next 10 years to pay for it all. There was also a much larger fee to buy into there than any other place we saw. $2,000 back then and I think it is higher now (most everywhere else was a couple hundred dollars). Things may have stabilized in there now.

There is a Stoneybrook CDD web site that has all of the board minutes available and you can research yourself and see what you think. Also, when searching, there is a Stoneybrook community in Gateway which is different. Very easy to confuse the two when looking on line.
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Old 02-07-2015, 01:04 PM
 
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I don't know much about Stoneybrook, but I own a townhome in Estero, and cannot say enough about how great of a place it is. Great shopping and dining at Coconut Point and Gulf Coast Town Center, outlet shopping at Miromar Outlets (right across the street from Stoneybrook), very well planned out community, and only about 25 minutes to beautiful beaches. Estero also has a great town rec center just around the corner from Stoneybrook. Estero is clean, safe, and very friendly. FGCU is right up the road and Hertz is building its new corporate HQ in the area as well. There is also alot of new building occurring in Estero or scheduled to begin shortly. Within 1/2 mile of Stoneybrook they have broke ground on building 300 apartments as well as close to 500 homes. Virtually any vacant piece of land in Estero is in the early stages of planning for continued development. While this will obviously add to the volume of cars and people in the area, Estero is a very well thought out community where all new development must conform to the towns wishes, so any new building will be very nice architecturally to look at. (esterofl.org is the website for the town). Estero is a very desirable place to live and (for now) cheaper than Bonita Springs or Estero.
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Old 02-08-2015, 10:43 AM
 
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Thanks for the feedback.
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Old 02-10-2015, 10:17 AM
 
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Its a good location. right by 75 quick any easy to pretty much anywhere.
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