Living Downtown as a Millennial

[I-10east]

Pre-consolidation Jax as a whole appears very rundown, and in places quite dirty to me.  I know I'm not alone in thinking or voicing that opinion.

Also, as people have pointed out, there is an utter lack of oversight and maintenance downtown, and a homeless problem.  Combine the two with vacant overgrown lots, an abundance of random chain link fences, negligent landlords who have no incentive to put more capital into their buildings/lots, etc and you have a "dirty" looking downtown.  Not that hard to fathom, but I guess your perspective, like so many in Jacksonville, is Jacksonville-only.

Go to Denver, highlighted by MJ today, and you'll see an opposite world.  Very clean city.  I would go so far as to call it pristine.  Yet still interesting.  Charlotte = clean, but perhaps a little uninteresting.

For years, you are like the biggest critic of Jax on MJ. There's some things that I agree with your past assessments (DT needs to be more vibrant, too much surface parking etc). I can't recollect any past posts saying the DT is dirty, certainly nothing of repetition. I would call certain areas in DT Jax (around Jefferson etc) barren and some neglected (around La Villa) with grass lots etc, but that's not the case on every DT street. When I think of 'dirty' I think of 70's NY with trash strewn about everywhere, rotting trash, sooty buildings, broken glass, and I don't see that around downtown.