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Old 03-07-2012, 06:50 PM
 
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Saturday, we are having a big opening day festival for the soccer teams at Veterans Park followed by family fun day at Julington Creek Elem. I'll be too beat for any nightlife though. Some tequila then bed.
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Old 03-08-2012, 06:51 AM
 
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Mandarin has more bars/lounges. And plenty of live music venues, comedy clubs, monthly neighborhood parties, sports competitions. Not sure about frequent festivals, though I am sure there are some. And Mandarin has a river also and a library with events. Plus its just a 15 minuter drive downtown to do MOCA and the sports complexes, arena, main library events, Art Walk, a bunch of popular bars/clubs, the River, every kind of concerts and celebration you could think of.

What does Mandarin have that Springfield doesn't ... large lawns and lot's of trees.
And then there's this flawed opinion. Good luck with that.
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Old 03-08-2012, 07:32 AM
 
Location: Heading Northwest In Nevada
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Don't know about any "flaw" in madcap's reply, except for the entertainment perhaps and we've got the SJTC which is fun for lots of folks......the younger crowd that is. As for us, we are not the "downtown" type, so the Baymeadows/Mandarin area is fine with us.

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And then there's this flawed opinion. Good luck with that.
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Old 03-08-2012, 08:09 AM
 
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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SJTC is not in Mandarin. Nor does it take only 15 minutes to reach DT, among other misrepresentations.

Mandarin is a quiet bedroom community, very suburban, very family friendly. That's what it is, which is fine for those who enjoy that.
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Old 03-08-2012, 08:23 AM
 
Location: On the banks of the St Johns River
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SJTC is not in Mandarin. Nor does it take only 15 minutes to reach DT, among other misrepresentations.

Mandarin is a quiet bedroom community, very suburban, very family friendly. That's what it is, which is fine for those who enjoy that.

It's true it takes more than 15 minutes to ride your Schwinn downtown from Mandarin than it does a sane person driving a car.
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Old 03-08-2012, 08:32 AM
 
Location: On the banks of the St Johns River
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And then there's this flawed opinion. Good luck with that.
The only flawed opinion on this whole thread is your continual dismissing of anyplace not downtown or urban as being totally uninhabitable. Thats very myopic and intellectually limited.

Freeman Cooper the OP only asked about Mandarin, never mentioned the urban area's of Jax or even downtown. Yet you in your vehemently anti-suburban way bumped her thread by inserting your blatantly fatuous views, basically saying that Mandarin was a sleepy little pit stop on the way to effulgent downtown Jacksonville.

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Old 03-08-2012, 08:56 AM
 
Location: Jacksonville, FL (Mandarin)
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...Nor does it take only 15 minutes to reach DT, ...
Using Google Maps for the calculation, from I-95/Old St Augustine Rd to the Main Street Bridge, Exit to Exit, is 15 minutes. Of course, you'd have to add ~5 minutes at the end of each point in the directions to account for your start and end locations.
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Old 03-08-2012, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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The only flawed opinion on this whole thread is your continual dismissing of anyplace not downtown or urban as being totally uninhabitable. Thats very myopic and intellectually limited.
That's plainly and obviously incorrect.

I advocate for Ortega, Murray Hill, the Beaches, Avondale - last time I checked none of these are urban nor Downtown.

Also, just a few posts above this one, I stated:

Mandarin is a quiet bedroom community, very suburban, very family friendly. That's what it is, which is fine for those who enjoy that.


Please try and be accurate.
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Old 03-08-2012, 09:41 AM
 
Location: On the banks of the St Johns River
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That's plainly and obviously incorrect.

I advocate for Ortega, Murray Hill, the Beaches, Avondale - last time I checked none of these are urban nor Downtown.

Also, just a few posts above this one, I stated:

Mandarin is a quiet bedroom community, very suburban, very family friendly. That's what it is, which is fine for those who enjoy that.


Please try and be accurate.
Avondale is urban thats why its called the historic Riverside/Avondale area. Murry Hill is basically urban also, as it adjoins Riverside/Avondale. The Beaches are their own urban area as they are their own separate entity/town not part of the consolidated city of Jacksonville. I don't ever remember you advocating for Ortega(jsimms3 yes, you not really) but am not pressing the point as I agree its not urban.

''Mandarin is a quiet bedroom community, very suburban, very family friendly. That's what it is, which is fine for those who enjoy that.''
Could you possibly be any more denigrating?
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Old 03-08-2012, 03:47 PM
 
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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I can get downtown in 25 from Julington Creek. 20 to San Marco where we spend a Sat. night from time to time.
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