What America thinks of Jacksonville Fl (Mayo, Lee: for rent, safe area, buy)

[madcapmagishion]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

Can someone plz tell me something about Jax. I don't have a clue.

Such as? I will compare some known facts about Jacksonville and Dallas.

Jacksonville is the largest city in the State of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval county, with which the city government consolidated in 1968. This gave gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits. With approx. 822,000 people Jacksonville ranks #11 in Rankings of the largest incorporated places over 100,000 population. (Dallas ranks 9th with approx. 1.2 million) Jacksonville covers 885 sq. miles of area (Dallas covers 385 sq. miles of area) Jacksonville has the St Johns River a major navigable waterway.(Dallas has the Trinity River often described as a major drainage ditch) Jacksonville downtown to the Atlantic ocean is maybe 15 miles (Dallas to the Gulf of Mexico is 300 miles) What else do you care to know? OHH yea Jacksonville was originally called Cowford because its where the farmers used to push their cattle across the river in a shallow area.

here's the Jacksonville skyline panorama shot from wikipedia

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by madcapmagishion

Such as? I will compare some known facts about Jacksonville and Dallas.

Jacksonville is the largest city in the State of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval county, with which the city government consolidated in 1968. This gave gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits. With approx. 822,000 people Jacksonville ranks #11 in Rankings of the largest incorporated places over 100,000 population. (Dallas ranks 9th with approx. 1.2 million) Jacksonville covers 885 sq. miles of area (Dallas covers 385 sq. miles of area) Jacksonville has the St Johns River a major navigable waterway.(Dallas has the Trinity River often described as a major drainage ditch) Jacksonville downtown to the Atlantic ocean is maybe 15 miles (Dallas to the Gulf of Mexico is 300 miles) What else do you care to know? OHH yea Jacksonville was originally called Cowford because its where the farmers used to push their cattle across the river in a shallow area.

here's the Jacksonville skyline panorama shot from wikipedia

Thanks for the information.

That's funny what you said about the Trinity River. Maybe if these idiots didn't dam the freaking river it would have more water. I wish I could go back and time and stop them! Oh well

BTW the St. Johns River looks like a lake. It's wide as heck!

Here's some pic of our skyline

[projectmaximus]

Originally Posted by allmysonsjaxfl

It's great! It's a friendly environment,a paradise of high culture and art, historic hot spots, great restaurants, and all the fine shopping one can handle.

Wow, I thought surely you were joking, but looking at your posts I guess you're being sincere. Y'all know I love my hometown (Jax) but I don't think anyone would ever really think it's a paradise of high culture or that it has all the fine shopping one can handle. That's pretty extreme praise in areas for which Jax can hardly hold a candle to most other large cities. BTW, I have plenty of friends (myself excluded) who have handled far more shopping than this city has to offer.

Originally Posted by Dallaz

Thanks for the information.

BTW the St. Johns River looks like a lake. It's wide as heck!

Here's some pic of our skyline

Yeah it is wide. It's a huge river...runs 3 miles wide at one point and in madcap's picture of downtown, believe it or not, it used to be wider before the city reclaimed a significant portion to build on.

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by projectmaximus

Wow, I thought surely you were joking, but looking at your posts I guess you're being sincere. Y'all know I love my hometown (Jax) but I don't think anyone would ever really think it's a paradise of high culture or that it has all the fine shopping one can handle. That's pretty extreme praise in areas for which Jax can hardly hold a candle to most other large cities. BTW, I have plenty of friends (myself excluded) who have handled far more shopping than this city has to offer.



Yeah it is wide. It's a huge river...runs 3 miles wide at one point and in madcap's picture of downtown, believe it or not, it used to be wider before the city reclaimed a significant portion to build on.

WTF That's huge!!!!!!!!!! I would love to see a river like that in Dallas. Well, they are trying to build lakes around downtown so we can have a "waterfront". The Trinity River isn't cutting it! We need something like the St. Johns river. In Texas people really talk about how small the Trinity River is. It's a 710 mile long creek LOL.

[madcapmagishion]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

Thanks for the information.

That's funny what you said about the Trinity River. Maybe if these idiots didn't dam the freaking river it would have more water. I wish I could go back and time and stop them! Oh well

BTW the St. Johns River looks like a lake. It's wide as heck!

In downtown Jax the river is about 1/3 of a mile wide and just south of Jax it averages about 1 mile and down at the Buckman Bridge at the county line is 2 miles wide, North and as it goes East to the ocean its about 1/3 to 1//2 mile wide the whole way to the ocean

Mandarin across river to Dr's Inlet


Ortega towards San Jose

[Dallaz]

Originally Posted by madcapmagishion

In downtown Jax the river is about 1/3 of a mile wide and just south of Jax it averages about 1 mile and down at the Buckman Bridge at the county line is 2 miles wide, North and as it goes East to the ocean its about 1/3 to 1//2 mile wide the whole way to the ocean

Mandarin across river to Dr's Inlet


Ortega towards San Jose

I was like danggggggggg when I went to google street view. I was on the Henry P. Buckam bridge. I looks like a freaking lake. It looks wider than the Mississippi River. Y'all are very lucky to have such a beautiful river and the ocean not to far away.

[madcapmagishion]

Originally Posted by Dallaz

I was like danggggggggg when I went to google street view. I was on the Henry P. Buckam bridge. I looks like a freaking lake. It looks wider than the Mississippi River. Y'all are very lucky to have such a beautiful river and the ocean not to far away.

The first time I saw the Mississippi River was in 1980 when I was posted to the Army Records Center in St Louis on a TDY assignment, Driving to St Louis on US-40 and crossing the Poplar Street Bridge ..there it was the Mighty Mississippi River and my comment to my wife was ''that's it...huh that's not so impressive.'' I had grown up on the banks of the St Johns at a wider spot, The Mississippi looked slow, narrow and dirty compared to what I was used to.

A weird story about the St Johns... Back in the late 60's like 67/68 the St Johns river was totally covered by a strange invasive plant called the Water Hyacinth. From Lake George all the way to the Atlantic Ocean it was a solid green carpet of plants. So thick that it clogged boat propellers and sucked all the oxygen right out of the water, and killed the fish. And the St Johns is renowned for its Large Mouth Bass. They had to harvest and spray weed killer on it and it took about a year to finally clean it up. The story goes that this old lady brought like 3 of the plants back illegally from Brazil or somewhere down there, because she thought they we so beautiful she wanted some for her garden pond. And then in one of the hurricanes(Dora, Donna?) in the mid 60's the river flooded and the Hyacinths got out into the river and in just a couple of years had totally taken it over.

[cricketfan]

Originally Posted by projectmaximus

Wow, I thought surely you were joking, but looking at your posts I guess you're being sincere. Y'all know I love my hometown (Jax) but I don't think anyone would ever really think it's a paradise of high culture or that it has all the fine shopping one can handle. That's pretty extreme praise in areas for which Jax can hardly hold a candle to most other large cities. BTW, I have plenty of friends (myself excluded) who have handled far more shopping than this city has to offer.

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I wouldn't be so quick to put this poster down or pooh-pooh whatever he thinks of Jax. People's opinions are shaped by where they came from, how much they have seen of other places and lastly by how much they are willing to settle for where they are at the present time. I have traveled pretty much all over and spent most of my life in big cities, mostly in NY. (I assume you have too). The poster is seeing Jax through his own eyes, not through yours or mine. Who are we to say that Jax is not his paradise?

[BabyBoomers2]

PLEASE don't use this on our Forum! We all know what it means, because the last word can't not be spelled out, but we still don't need it in our Forum.
Thank you!

Originally Posted by Dallaz

WTF That's huge!!!!!!!!!! I would love to see a river like that in Dallas. Well, they are trying to build lakes around downtown so we can have a "waterfront". The Trinity River isn't cutting it! We need something like the St. Johns river. In Texas people really talk about how small the Trinity River is. It's a 710 mile long creek LOL.

[madcapmagishion]

Originally Posted by cricketfan

I wouldn't be so quick to put this poster down or pooh-pooh whatever he thinks of Jax. People's opinions are shaped by where they came from, how much they have seen of other places and lastly by how much they are willing to settle for where they are at the present time. I have traveled pretty much all over and spent most of my life in big cities, mostly in NY. (I assume you have too). The poster is seeing Jax through his own eyes, not through yours or mine. Who are we to say that Jax is not his paradise?

Compared to some of the Army Post towns like Leesvillle La.(Ft Polk) or Elizabethtown Ky.(Ft Knox) but especially Killeen, Tx.(Ft Hood) Jacksonville even though its a squid navy town is Paradise.(by the dashboard lights even)