Official Jacksonville Thread - Now with a taste of culture

I think I’m leaving Jax next year. It’s a decent city but it’s tough making new friends at my age. Was going to try Jax Fray but last time I tried playing competitive sports I tore my Achilles and rather not repeat that.

 

A lot of my friends I’ve made in Jax have been from my Beach volleyball league.

 

If it makes you feel any better, I wouldn’t hang out with you either.

 

Can confirm it’s hard to make friends, however my kid is making my friends for me now

 

This is spot on:

 

Yeah, I’ve lived here my entire life and I have more friends that don’t live here than do.

 

The plan would be to move back to South Florida where my old friends are

 

I’d rather live literally anywhere with no friends then South Florida with tons of friends.

 

What are the odds of the Jaguars moving permanently to England?

 

Not zero.

I feel like scheduling that would be miserable though.

 

Yes, my son is basically the 4 year old mayor of our neighborhood. He will strike up a conversation with literally anyone. I feel like he knows our entire corner of Jax Beach.

 

Same for us. We got lucky that our daughter picked best friends with cool parents.

 

I’m 35 and have lived in multiple cities, can confirm that making friends is hard everywhere.

My only friends in town that aren’t through my wife are people I used to work with. And I see them less and less now that Im self employed.

 

trying to get out and do more but Covid really hampered making friends early on. Been to a few bday parties from neighborhood kids and daycare and that’s helped. I had some work friends but man Covid also kinda killed those as we went to work from home and some people’s true ideologies came out

 

So it’s settled, we’ll start a TMB Jax fantasy league this year so we can all stop being so anti social

 

But we're definitely leaving boo out, right?

 

Yea idk to blame it on Covid or kids or just getting old for us but we're definitely more home bodies than we used to be. We just always have stuff going on with her so when we get a down day with nothing to do it's nice to just chill. We don't go out a ton now so when we do it's normally going to be with friends we don't see as much as we used to, not a new random friend I met. And we're not just spontaneously available like we used to be. 10 years ago someone could message me at 4:30pm and we'd be at a bar by 5pm. Now I need to plan a week ahead.

 

I'd absolutely be in for this as long as we leave Boo out.

 

that guy lives here too?

Nevermind, it might be time to abandon ship here.

 

I mean, Nocatee...

 

What is this we shit, you fucking abandoner.

 

Checking in from Riverside here. Walking distance to 5 Points. About as Duval as it gets

 

I live in Mandarin and semi-reside in Julington Creek, which is only barely St Johns.

Spoiler

I'm moving to JC full-time next month...but only for a year until my partner's kid finishes school and then we're looking at San Marco/Riverside or NB

 

And I'm totally kidding, jake can obviously have boo's spot at the Jax table.

 

only go that way for thr arts market or if my wife has a hair appt lol

 

I’ve met jorts and killerB. Played video games with fusion. I probably drive past boo and dbl all the time.

 

I always wave to dbl when I drive past his house.

 

You will if you want any chance of winning!!!

 

Same minus the Duval part

 

San Marco supposedly floods in certain part but I like the area and thought of moving there.

 

I'll host adraft p

standoffish - not really
unfriendly man - fact
fears change - idk I don't think that applies to you now
sometimes talks sports - i'd say very very very rarely these days

 

San Marco is great but it does flood super easily. Avondale is nicer but pricier.

Riverside is also pretty pricey but less prone to flooding.

Murray Hill is still pretty street by street

 

I’d be down too, how many of us are there? Less than 10 right?

 

Can’t wait!

 

Fun story: I lived in and around San Marco/Lakewood until I was 12, when my family moved to northside. I dated a girl that lived close to Dupont middle when I was a 17/18 and was driving to her house one weekend during a downpour. There's a roundabout now but there used to be a light on San Marco/Landon. I'd driven that area a million times and knew damn well how badly it floods. So I sat at that light, while it was already flooding, and watched a semi go through in front of me and thought I could do the same in my Honda Accord. About 30 seconds after, the waves the semi had made rippled back in, and instantly flooded my car.

It cost a young Fusion a lot of money to fix that car(the ECU was located under the passenger seat and completely fried).

We'd probably look slightly further south, closer to Hendricks.

 

I work in riverside, don’t mind the drive but is nuked any recreational trips over this way. I do my best to stay at the beach as much as possible on weekends.