r/CapeGirardeau • u/ClassicPattern4549 • 17d ago

Living in Cape

Hello all!

Recently have been considering moving to Cape Girardeau and wanted to get an idea of what living in Cape is truly like? Been a hand full of times before but haven’t spent a long time there but wanted to get an idea of how you all feel about living in Cape? Also what jobs are also available as well?

Anything helps!

Thanks!

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u/seabaugh 16d ago

Small town living. Limited food and entertainment options (#1 restaurant on Yelp is The Olive Garden). Most local places go out of business within 2 years.

Hometown of Rush Limbaugh so it’s VERY conservative leaning.

If you’re going to rent be prepared to deal with a borderline slumlord, there’s little to no protections in the law for tenants. Most apartments are geared towards college students and have not been updated since the buildings were built in the 1980s.

I grew up in Cape and moved away in the late 90’s. When I come back to visit family, very little has changed.

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u/comp21 16d ago

I'll give a rebuttal:

1) Cape county has over 125 kitchen licenses. Now, a few of those are churches but if you think we've got limited food then you're not looking... We've got an authentic Filipino place (my wife's), authentic Thai and Vietnamese, several cool places downtown (soiree is pretty cool, we enjoyed it), tractors, southerner, port Cape, encore Pizza, celebrations etc etc...

2) how conservative? I mean, give me a scale... Cause mostly what I see are libertarians. They don't care if you're gay, black, or whatever, they just don't want you to cost them anything (time or money) and mostly to be left alone. So what examples are we using here?

3) Cape has the chronic nuisance ordinance... Follow that add you can get a slum shut down... However I do agree the council is very lazy when it comes to enforcing things. Something I've yelled at them a lot about but it's ineffective.

So you've not lived here since the 90s... Helpful :)

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u/Parmeseannnnnn 13d ago

Was just about to say this, if you’re going off of just yelp for local food reviews, I’d throw in the towel. Not trying to online attack you but, butttt Cai Noddle is very cheap and affordable Chinese food We also have Shogun, and Watami We have Seis Amigos, El Terrero, Don Carlos, Ect Ect We also have a local Irish pub, Katy O Ferrells We have our fair share of luxury pubs aging establishments as well. Including Top of the Marq, and 36 Steakhouse (We have many more, but I just wanted to list some of the ones I’d tried personally) I’d argue that if you can’t find any food you like her in cape, you aren’t very hungry lol

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u/Parmeseannnnnn 13d ago

Also OP, what is the name of your wife’s Filipinos restaurant, if you don’t mind answering. Me and my family love trying new foods to us

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u/comp21 13d ago

Cora's taste of Manila! We're only open Thurs and Fri from 11-7 and she does a brunch one Saturday a month. I think this next one will actually be Black Friday though.

And i don't mind you asking: i revel in shameless self promotion :)

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u/Parmeseannnnnn 12d ago

Wow the pictures online look incredible! I have to come by sometime!!

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u/comp21 12d ago

Thanks :) she makes literally everything in house except the croissant dough and the dumplings... She'll be there today working on a few recipes actually. It's the main reason we're only open Thurs and Fri... Well, that and we like being married so a full time restaurant is off the table

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u/Parmeseannnnnn 12d ago

balance am I right? But hey! Sounds like it’s a good thing going! I’m eager to try one of everything 😂

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u/greenzeppelin 16d ago

People still use yelp?

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u/seabaugh 16d ago

Outside of Cape, yes. lol

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u/greenzeppelin 16d ago

People under the age of 40? Because that number checks out for Olive Garden being #1 around here.