Moving to Orange Park

[joninclay]

Black people in america arent from africa for one, they are american.

You didn't say "black people" in your original rant. You said "Africans", which implies that a person is from Africa. African-American is different. You'd think that with you being all hot and bothered over "diversity" and stuff, you'd know that.

& there arent really that many europeans in orange park.

That will no doubt come as a HUGE surprise to the Europeans I know in Orange Park. Thanks for letting them know that they're not really there. I'm sure they were confused in thinking that they were.

I know 1 family from albania 2 lithuanian families, 1 russian family.

You don't get out much, do you?

Wells road doesnt have crime either

I subscribe to the Clay County Sheriff's Office crime newsletter, and the majority of crime they report is from Wells or areas right off of it.

You're entitled to your own opinions, dude, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

[Judil]

Originally Posted by bosnianmane

there are africans[from africa]

Aren't all Africans from Africa? In your second post you said they were from Kenya and Ethiopia, too. Please get an atlas - those are countries in Africa. I'm glad I'm not moving into your area where small, closed minds seem to be living!

[resriechan]

Hi -- hope that all goes well for you.

SHORTEST SIMPLIFIED ANSWER to choosing residence.

87 % (my guess) of all the OVER OVER OVER-developed and too-crowded and BADLY designed traffic hassles (pedestrian death 3 hrs ago today) is at the area of Blanding btw the Or Pk Mall and what's called the Argyle Forest area. That is where you'll find huge amounts of promotional deals and marketing and whatever wanting to get you to move there.

But that is *NOT* the core of "Orange Park". My parents were one of the couples who moved to Orange Park as young marrieds (Dad was made a Navy officer very very young in his career and flew fighter jets in the Cuban missile cr, in the Korean War and in Vietnam). Our family still owns the house they bought in 1950something. Mom is 80 yrs old. Originally, Kingsley Avenue near Hwy 17 (aka Roosevelt Blvd and prob id'd with a few other state route names on the maps)....they did districting limiting the chopping down of old oak trees, 'way back in the 50s/ 60s so fairly avant-garde districting for the times.

STRONGLY recommend going AGAINST all the marketing shove about Blanding Boul, Argyle Forest, Or Pk Mall area. Try for something near Kingsley/ 17/ what used to be called Doctors' Lake, a bit of water and lots of beautiful old oaks with Spanish Moss (altho' recent years have seen quite a few hits during hurricane seasons so they have gotten some of the huge limbs knocked down). CHECK ON FLOODING aspects the height of standing water that happens between July and November each year. A lot of the lower-priced properties/ apts/ houses...can be BECAUSE you can have standing water of a foot or so during a particularly bad storm...damaging your first-floor valuables, your automobile engine, etc.

I LOVE old Orange Park. It's one of my favorite places of old Florida nature in Florida. Lots of overly-developed and badly-developed streets and residential "blobs" that are too much hassle to be able to enjoy the actual beauty aspects of trees, water, etc of living in Florida.

By the way -- there is a medium to substantial city bus system Jacksonville BUT IT DOES NOT do Orange Park AT ALL. so D"ONT plan on catching a prompt, frequent, large city-system bus btw Orange Park and Jax. Also If you're not already aware, "city of Jacksonville" encompasses quite a broad, large area of North Florida.

also my mom is from Miami ca 1920s and I'm a reference librarian by trade, so research and long-term florida events are my frame of reference.

Best of luck to ya!!! L. Thomas, born 1962