If you move here, you're going to regret it.
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7/11/2010
Jacksonville, unfortunately, isn't a nice place to live. I have lived here for a number of years, and I can honestly tell you that this city is dirty, crime-infested, and lacking in absolutely every amenity you'd expect to find in a relatively large city. There is no "safe" part of this city, as crime is high in all of its zip codes, even the more affluent of them. Actually, the city's homicide rate is the highest in the state, and--even more disturbingly--one of the highest in the nation. Living in a "good" neighborhood won't preclude you from being a victim of crime, even in your own home. As would be expected, the natives (i.e., Southerners) are neither friendly nor open to those who are different from themselves. The romantic notion of "southern hospitality" is a myth, at least in this part of the South. The locals tend to be socially conservative (i.e., socially backward), poorly educated, religiously fanatical rednecks, whose repulsive closed-mindedness is exceeded only by a pervasive, shameful, inexcusable ignorance of anything taught beyond the second grade. If you're from another part of the country--the North in particular--you're going to be treated with contempt by less-than-civilized natives. Although the Civil War ended in 1865, the city's hillbillies are still fighting it, still being so immature as to detest those who are from the North. Since there is so much ignorance, poverty, closed-mindedness and racial/cultural antipathy here, it not surprising that the crime rate is the highest in the state.
Bp | Jacksonville, FL