Downtown Gainesville is Looking Up

[I-10east]

just close your eyes...that way you won't see others passing you by

Blah, blah, blah. I go to G-ville pretty often at the VA, believe me, I'm not the one with my eyes closed here.

[I-10east]

Sorry to derail the thread, but I had to draw attention to the absurdity of the FSU grad's post.

Nobody was comparing Gainesville to Miami or Orlando, because there is no point to it.

Oh yeah, no sense to compare G-ville to MIA, and ORL, but you can compare G-ville directly to Jax because we are supposedly getting 'blown away' by G-ville, no questions asked; Anyone with a differing opinion is a wayward troll, and is automactically way offbase! Hey 'Florida grad', please chill with using words like 'picturesque' when referring to G-ville; If a dry to the bone, waterless sleepy lil' college town is picturesque, then Jax looks like a world class city. G-ville is what it is, a city with an above average college that keeps it afloat, nothing more. It won't be on the Travel Channel anytime soon.

[Tacachale]

^why would a site dedicated to jacksonville compare other cities to each other? It's pretty routine to compare other areas of various sizes to the one we all have a reason to care about.

[I-10east]

^why would a site dedicated to jacksonville compare other cities to each other?

Yall took that WAY too seriously (MIA, ORL, and TAM better watch out because of G-Ville). I was trying to be funny, evidently I failed in making that humorous.

It's pretty routine to compare other areas
of various sizes to the one we all have a reason to care about.

Yeah you left out something, always say that we are getting "passed by" or "blown away" no matter what the circumstances is when comparing us (the city that we all 'care' about) to a smaller city; Jax will ALWAYS lose that argument on MJ no matter what. Talk about being 'predictable'!

Lets put things into perspective, a town that's the size of a walnut with an ENORMOUS university; Where virtually EVERY BUSINESS in the town has the word 'Gator' in it; I hope that it does have a lil' DT that caters to all of those college kids, and alum; What college town doesn't? It's anycollegetown USA. Contrary to popular belief on MJ, urban settings can have an 'Anytown USA' feel too. I guess that Dodge City in the 1800's was urban when you think about it, with everything lined up on both sides of the street , ya know with it's Livery, Saloon, Hotel, General Store, and County Jail.