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Jax getting some love in Food & Wine

Fantastic city to make money in if you're an entrepreneur type. So much growth taking place and opportunity.

Pro Tip: Springfield. Jacksonville's first wealthy neighborhood that was lost in the Great Fire is beginning to go through early stages of gentrification. You can get a 5 bedroom 3 bath home less than 300k! If you love historic neighborhoods and priced out of Riverside/Avondale and San Marco then look here.

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Springfield: If you want a historic home that requires you to wear Kevlar each time you leave the house, this neighborhood is for you!

I'll never understand the appeal of Springfield. Hipsters claim it's the "it" place to live but the likelihood of getting shot when you walk out your door doesn't seem to register with the X Box generation.
 
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"If you blindfolded someone, dropped them down here, and asked them to figure out where they were, they might guess Northern California before this part of Florida"

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TexSkills said:
Could be worse. Someone could drop them in Houston and have them think they were in Beirut.
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Summertime in Houston or New Orleans is definitely no picnic. I'm thinking more 'Nam than the Middle East.
 
TexSkills said:
Springfield: If you want a historic home that requires you to wear Kevlar each time you leave the house, this neighborhood is for you!

I'll never understand the appeal of Springfield. Hipsters claim it's the "it" place to live but the likelihood of getting shot when you walk out your door doesn't seem to register with the X Box generation.
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TexSkills said:
This I agree with. A lot of entrepreneurial activity going on here. I myself am engaged in a startup with several people and this town has a lot of people who have an appetite for it.
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Cheap real estate in Springfield for your start up, you can ride the downtown development wave that's taking place, and be 15 minutes to the airport to lure in your next investor.

Springfield is just as safe as Riverisde/Avondale and a lot of Jacksonville string pullers call those two neighborhoods home.
 
TexSkills said:
Springfield: If you want a historic home that requires you to wear Kevlar each time you leave the house, this neighborhood is for you!

I'll never understand the appeal of Springfield. Hipsters claim it's the "it" place to live but the likelihood of getting shot when you walk out your door doesn't seem to register with the X Box generation.
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Pioneers get the arrows; settlers get the land.

If you time the transition from one to the next, you’ve done well.
 
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RunRonnieRun said:
TexSkills said:
Springfield: If you want a historic home that requires you to wear Kevlar each time you leave the house, this neighborhood is for you!

I'll never understand the appeal of Springfield. Hipsters claim it's the "it" place to live but the likelihood of getting shot when you walk out your door doesn't seem to register with the X Box generation.
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Pioneers get the arrows; settlers get the land.

If you time the transition from one to the next, you’ve done well.
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Springfield has been in the "pioneer" stage for over 10 years.
 
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Hogan's 'Creek' that runs through Springfield has some nice little parks along its course which is great unfortunately it also has ongoing fecal coliform contamination from all of the homeless people defecating on the ground.

Just thought I'd dump that load.
 
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Problem with Springfield/Avondale/Riverside is that one second you are in a nice spot...make a right instead of left and you need to roll up your windows and lock your door...

Tex isn't allowed to talk about Jax anymore though...you live closer to Palatka than Jax proper... :D
 
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and anybody living in that turd bowl Houston really doesn't have any ground to start dissing another city
 
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also FYI...want to make some quick money...actually Baymeadows (all the older townhomes inbetween 95 and Southside) is a good place to buy cheap and flip for a nice profit currently.
 
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Hey hey hey...I lived in Houston for 25 years, and I can attest to the fact that if you're willing to put up with the flat, swampy, humid, featureless landscape, you'll also get some of the best restaurants and healthcare in the world. The healthcare part can really come in handy with the chemical haze overhanging the city.

If you want deadly dull, Dallas is the place for you.
 
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Dallas also has world class healthcare, but in our own state, Jax is the leader as far as that goes.
 
helmetnuts said:
Problem with Springfield/Avondale/Riverside is that one second you are in a nice spot...make a right instead of left and you need to roll up your windows and lock your door...

Tex isn't allowed to talk about Jax anymore though...you live closer to Palatka than Jax proper... :D
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Palatka is 40 miles from my house so....
 
Bartdog said:
Sssshhhhh don't tell anyone.

Also Tex is right that Springfield has been on the rise a veeery long time.
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Just needs the final push of downtown development to take off. Very cheap real estate in downtown Jacksonville. Won't be for long.
 
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also FYI...want to make some quick money...actually Baymeadows (all the older townhomes inbetween 95 and Southside) is a good place to buy cheap and flip for a nice profit currently.
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Not as much as you might think. They're back to 2006 levels.
 
The townhouses in the East Baymeadows area (other side of 295) have all appreciated considerably in the last 2 years. Almost wish I would have hung on to the one I had
 
Actually with all the northeastern transplants its now friggin Dunkin Doughnuts every other block here in Jax
 
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