I live in Atlantic Beach (Jacksonville) Florida,Welcome to U.S. Navy central we have NAS Jax, and Nas Maport. Yep, its a huge Navy town run by the
wonderful Southern Baptists[xx(], Also home of the worlds largest outdoor cocktail party a.k.a. The Gatorbowl [^]otherwise it's not bad, traffic kinda sucks, its 60 miles to the other side of town, so even on a good day its a 45 min drive. The Jax metro area is huge, something like 950 sq miles, Its also more like South Georgia than Florida, Huge Difference between north and south florida.
I've been here for 5 years now, it's changed alot since I moved here, I think alot of it due to The Jaguars NFL franchise, the citys been doing alot of work to improve the look of the area everytime i drive around at the beach theres some new building, or new park.
They've also started running cruises out of the port, i think its just Royal Caribbean operating right now. There isnt a whole lot to do i mean aside from hanging at the beach, surfing, fishing. But it still beats living in Pennsylvania and dealing with the two seasons, Winter and Construction. As I said earlier the Baptists run this town, so the clubs are well, nothing to brag about. I work for an airline so i've been to alot of different places, Florida was my #1 pick to live in but Jax wasn't, but like everywhere else you have your pro's and con's.
All in all its not a bad place to live, i mean i cant complain living 3 blocks from the ocean right
Oh yeah, we're hosting the 2005 superbowl, ughhhh I will do anything to take my vacation that week lol