very far from cutting edge. Some Jacksonville factoids....
- pretty nice beaches to the SE of town
- nice zoo
- TERRIBLE schools
- an inner city with some lovely Victorians, most of them in terrible
shape. The upside of this is that it would be quite inexpensive to do
the urban pioneer thing if you were into it. But these neighborhoods
are definitely inner-city though -- not as bad as DC, but way worse
than anything you find in Canada or out west.
- very definitely part of the Bible belt
- downtown smells like burned coffee all the time
My perceptions may be somewhat skewed by the work I did there... I
worked at the downtown campus of the community college and often felt
like I was on the front lines against ignorance. I talked to lots of
people from both the inner city and the cracker poverty belt to the
west of town who have never heard of fractions or used any kind of
computer ever.
On the other hand, Riverside, the neighborhood I eventually settled
in, had lovely old oaks hung with Spanish moss and lots of B & Bs
people had rehabbed themselves. It was an interesting mix of punk
rockers, yuppies, underclass and recent immigrants. Kinda liked it. It
was the schools that eventuallly pushed me across the state line into
Georgia.
Dana
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Meloche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 22:29:57 -0400
Subject: Re: Speaking of taxes ...
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Like Dana, I, too, used to live in Jacksonville, and I LOVED it. I
had a great apartment, made great friends, and had a wonderful
lifestyle. Too bad the job there sucked. :-)
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 21:54:38 -0400, Erika L. Walker-Arnold
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually - the time I was there - it had a record dry spell and a record
> heat wave.
>
> It was all sun & warmth.
> That pissed me off - I wanted RAIN!!! LOL
>
> Cheers,
> Erika
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> >>| From: loathe
> >>|
> >>| England must have pissed you off than.
> >>|
> >>| Tim
>
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