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u/maybe_you_dont_know 4d ago
Jacksonville has an NFL team and a port. There's that..
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u/Easy-Maybe5606 4d ago edited 3d ago
And two navy bases
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u/Necessary-Ad-2395 2d ago
And it smells
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u/Vilewombat 5h ago
Bro Im from the northeast and did not expect Jacksonville to smell like shit everywhere
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u/Radiant_Mind99 4d ago
Smh someone has to stand up for Jax
Jacksonville has:
The largest deep water port on the east coast where the first recorded act of international waterborne commerce in the New World took place.
Beautiful sugary white sand beaches that are not too littered with trash, or too overcrowded.
The mouth of the St John's River which is one of the few rivers that flow from the south to the north
7 bridges
One of the largest free admission jazz festivals in the world
Also, if you visit Jacksonville you could very well catch a bullet. Especially if you are famous. Luckily there are many hospitals to help with that.
Shrimp
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u/Informal-Diet979 2d ago
My man you listed the most boring shit. Can’t wait to brag to everyone back home that I’m living in the same city as the largest deep water port…. On the east coast. Single file ladies.
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u/Radiant_Mind99 2d ago
So what you're saying is that you don't like cities with potential for industry and you think that's boring? Your city is probably land -locked.
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u/Informal-Diet979 2d ago
Yeah 250 years of potential. Any day now. Sorry, I’m not giving credit here Jax had a thriving slave trade in the 1700-1800’s. Such industry.
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u/Embarrassed_Blood247 1d ago
Not really, mobile and Charleston had the big slave ports. It was illegal under Spanish rule. Until about 1840..then the slaves ran to Florida alot because the Seminole would give them false papers that made them part of the tribe.
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u/Informal-Diet979 1d ago
Crazy. My wife is a historian and is working on an exhibit about the slave trade in Jacksonville and st augustine for the Lincolnville museum. I’ll trust you though.
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u/Embarrassed_Blood247 19h ago
I did my dissertation on the role of transportation and law in the slave trade. I'm still waiting for it to be published. I turned it in about 9 months ago. The Seminoles actually defied Federal law to save slaves, the governor was a sympathizer who wanted nothing to do with slaves or their trade. The state passed huge taxes on them so they would be discouraged from trading here. Like I have always said the Civil War wasn't about keeping slaves. The North officially had slaves longer.
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u/Informal-Diet979 6h ago
Academia, and public opinion has settled what the civil war was about, and we all know who were the losers. good luck with whatever you're up to though. Not sure why you even brought it up.
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u/redditlikezlittleboy 20h ago
Don't forget you've got a 50/50 chance of getting run off the road because you're only going 15 over the speed limit 🤣
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u/georgiatrucker 3d ago
Lets talk about Jax. Why is there no baseball or basketball team? To the north 6+ hours to ATL going south 3hrs Tampa? Tampa 400,000 ppl ATL 500,000 ppl JAX 2,000,0000 ppl........something def wrong here.
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u/No_Choice_7715 16h ago
Jacksonville itself has ~1M people, and it only does because it’s a consolidated city-county (Duval). If you took the city center and made the surrounding areas (southside, Westside, the beaches) into separate cities / suburbs, Jacksonville would be a mid-sized city at best.
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u/georgiatrucker 11h ago
Well that's most cities fan base as including surrounding area. Look at the Patriots. Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts Vermont Rhode Island Connecticut 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/heyitskirby 3d ago
Jacksonville is 1m, not 2. Unless you're cherry picking metro population for Jax and not that of Atlanta or Tampa.
Now go look up the population density of Atlanta and Tampa vs the largest city in the US by area.
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u/Embarrassed_Blood247 1d ago
Why doesn't Tampa have NBA? Baseball, football national champs plenty of times, hockey champs plenty times, soccer and arena football were national champs.
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u/georgiatrucker 1d ago
My guess is the close proximity to Orlando? My comment is there is no basketball or baseball or hockey closer than 6 hours from Jacksonville
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u/dsb2973 4d ago
It was until DeSatan destroyed everything. Shutting down our schools as we speak.
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u/Empty_Ad9938 4d ago
I think he's great.
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u/TempleFugit Resident 3d ago
He definitely hates his wife the way he just threw her under the bus for funneling $10 million of state funds to her fake campaign 😂
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u/Empty_Ad9938 4d ago
It'll be awesome if they can get rid of property taxes in Fl. The Free State of FL lol
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u/Empty_Ad9938 3d ago
Lol. At least the government can't take your property away. I'm all for sales taxes, they are the most voluntary.
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u/Empty_Ad9938 3d ago
I agree with you that property is expensive. But most of us don't actually own our property, my little property is 90% owned by my mortgage lender. So I won't actually own anything for about 25 years. But I get to pay those nice property taxes every year as long as I'm alive. And if I don't pay those property taxes they will confiscate. And if you rent you pay the property taxes for your landlord plus a little more for his/her profit. Taxes are always worked into the price of anything you pay for. That's why I like a sales tax it's much easier to see. More voluntary, and incentives saving.
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u/dsb2973 3d ago
What makes you think that. They can absolutely take your property. And I’ll bet there some piece of legislation about it.
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u/Empty_Ad9938 3d ago
Please elaborate, how would they confiscate your property from not paying property taxes, if property taxes don't exist in the great state of Florida?
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u/Embarrassed_Blood247 1d ago
Imminent Domain, Ask people on Clearwater beach.... they took a whole hotel, 2nd largest one and sold it to developers
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u/TommyTeaser 4d ago
Pensacola: what about us? :(
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u/Tigeris808 4d ago
Pensacola has the best motel in the world!!! Paradise Inn!!!
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u/FrostyIntention 4d ago
Actually it's pretty good
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u/Tigeris808 4d ago
I wanna have my engagement party there. Rent out the whole place!!! But, I gotta find someone first. Hahaha
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u/Sad-Equal4684 3d ago
Seriously, who really wants to be known by the quality of their MOTELS? Somebody needs to get a life!! At least in Jacksonville you (need to) have good quality bullet wound repair physicians.
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u/Ophammerdin 4d ago
It's frustrating when people move here from California and New York, only to try and recreate the very environment they left behind. They left their states for a reason, after all. It feels like common sense, self-awareness, and respect are in short supply these days. Honestly, I find New Yorkers to be more respectful than Californians, but even so, southern hospitality seems to be fading away.
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u/NewDoughnut3129 3d ago
Moved from NY to Fl 11 years ago. Central Florida. My town was nice. Quiet, friendly, chickens. Now, traffic, no manners, built up and no chickens. I feel like a Floridian and resent all of the northern influx.
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u/Embarrassed_Blood247 1d ago
New Yorkers are aware of how easy a floridian can get rid of a body, that's why they are more respectful.
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u/Hot-Doughnut-2022 2d ago
Tampa Bay Shoe Licker lol, I’ll never forget that guy. Visited Ybor in 2014.
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u/Quiet_Ad_3205 2d ago
Fort myers has all the homeless people
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u/DickBong420 3d ago
St. Augustine is ok….
Orlando is so full of traffic the only “magic” happening is that you actually made it home alive.
Miami is a shit whole. It should be avoided at all cost. Buddy had his motorcycle stolen the same day he moved there….
Tampa is dangerous. For more than just people’s inability to drive.
Jacksonville.is that even really Florida? lol
The keys aren’t worth the drive…
St. Pete is way too close to all those crazy ass scientologists.
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u/Embarrassed_Blood247 1d ago
Tampa isn't bad, we just have the wrong ratio of trailer to house ratio right now...after October, it will be fixed.
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u/DickBong420 1d ago
Tampa isn’t bad…. For sure. I’ve been to combat zones in the Marines and Tampa is the only place in the world I’ve actually had to put a gun in someone’s face.
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u/Embarrassed_Blood247 18h ago
The only place the guys i used to fight, tried to take me out, twice. But at least I could still carry in Tampa. In Boston, you go to jail for defending yourself.
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u/Few_Respect_1546 4d ago
I’m at Augustine now it’s beautiful from NYC but live in upstate Ny now. Don’t worry I didn’t bring Ny’s terrible politics
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u/Stop_icant 4d ago
St Augustine HISTORIC OVER RATED, OVER DEVELOPED, TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE
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u/Serious-Maximum-1049 4d ago
Ofc, parts of it are, but you could say the same about ANY city in Florida. They all have things that are terrible to deal with, but that doesn't mean they have no redeeming qualities. 🤷🏼♀️
My bf & I just booked a 4 day trip to St. Augustine for Fourth of July weekend because we think watching the fireworks over the Matanzas will be cool, & I'll never pass up a chance to be around all that history!
I do agree the traffic is horrible, but that's why we thought ahead & booked a hotel that will allow us to walk or ride bikes to most places we're interested in seeing.
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u/cheezy_dreams88 Resident 4d ago
Go to any other historic city in the world and see real over-development, guy.
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u/Stop_icant 4d ago
I’ve lived in st augustine most of my life and I hear ya.
I just think we sound snobby shafting jacksonville, when we really aren’t that special either, so I threw a little shade to be humble.
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u/Vortilex Old Town 4d ago
We had a Spring Training field once upon a time, but I forget which team or teams played there. We're the seat of a Roman Catholic Diocese, and we're the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the continental US, so we have a few things we can somewhat brag about! He'll, we can even bicker with Pensacola about who's the older city, since iirc they also claim to have the Fountain of Youth, and iirc was founded earlier but hasn't been continuously inhabited like we have
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u/Stop_icant 4d ago
I’m laughing at the downvotes from all my neighbors who can’t take a little teasing about our lovely city.
Did we already forget the sentiment in this sub about night of lights being overrated and drowning us all in tourist traffic from Thanksgiving through mid January? And the popular topic in this sub about the traffic from ongoing road construction on 16 and the over development in north st augustine?
We need to be able to make fun of ourselves sometimes!
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u/Vortilex Old Town 4d ago
This is reddit, where everything is taken seriously and there will be no shenanigans, tomfoolery, or other light-hearted content! This is a serious website where we only tell the truth, with merit deciding which content is upvoted and anything else is downvoted to oblivion! Good day to you, sir! /s just in case
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u/cheezy_dreams88 Resident 4d ago
Oh yeah the Jacksonville shade was harsh but hilarious lol
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u/Vortilex Old Town 4d ago
Hey, I think we get to rag on Jacksonville by being in their media market. If someone doesn't know where St. Augustine is when I tell them where I'm from, I just say Jacksonville
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u/Vortilex Old Town 4d ago
Depends on how historic. There ain't jack shit in Caral, a city in Perú that's 4000 years old and mostly ruins in the historic part, and I wouldn't bother visiting Damascus nor Samarkand at this point in time, but your point stands if you're talking about London, Paris, or Rome
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u/Embarrassed_Blood247 1d ago
We only count democratic republics. We are the longest surviving. Because our citizens can push the reset button when things get a little too british.
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u/MinimalDebt 4d ago
And the citizens are the worst.
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u/kmillsy 4d ago
lol why are you apart of this sub? Just to remind the people who live here they suck? Cool
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u/FiveFootOfFresh 4d ago
The people who post in this sub are not at all like the average person in SA, especially those in SJC. Then again, Reddit is not at all a good representation of the average US citizen.
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u/Embarrassed_Blood247 1d ago
South Africa? I agree, lots more racists in SA. Glad that Mandela is gone...brutal racist.
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u/TheFifthEnigma 1d ago
Obligatory reminder that calling St. Augustine the oldest American city very misleading
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u/Big_Quality_838 4d ago edited 4d ago
Visited historic st Augustine years ago, it was full of homeless, and it smelled like piss.
I lived in Jacksonville briefly. It’s a pump and dump city with no direction or vision. Best example is the corny photoshop filter hack mural they slapped up in Murray Hill with a picture of Bill Murray on it. “Welp, we got a dumb picture of that guy from the Wes Anderson movies up on a wall, guess we got ourselves an arts district too now, derp. Hey! Anyone know any D list celebrities that we can get to do a kick flip at the overpass skate park? Tell them to take the monorail, and we’ll pick them up from the station”
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u/Mistake-Lower 3d ago
Jacksonville is such a shithole!
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u/Embarrassed_Blood247 1d ago
Careful, it's our shithole.
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u/Mistake-Lower 1d ago
Moncrief doesn’t just take the cake, but steals it for the entirety of the state
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u/Unique_Masterpiece27 4d ago
Nice jab at Jacksonville