Seven questions. Your Southwest Florida shortlist.

Cape Coral isn’t one neighborhood. It’s four quadrants with very different lifestyles, price bands, and canal mixes, plus nearby Fort Myers options. The same budget can buy you a direct gulf access starter, a freshwater home in newer construction, or a downtown-adjacent walkable pocket, depending on which side of town fits how you actually want to live. This isn’t a generic top-10 list. The quiz takes lifestyle, budget, boating, downtown energy, new-vs-established, and out-of-state status, and returns a shortlist with the honest tradeoffs: water access, drive times, construction style, and daily-life fit.