http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSeIA2ZkKx8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSeIA2ZkKx8)
I like when he says "I grew up in Jacksonville's Northside, also known as Oceanway". He makes it sound like all of the Northside is Oceanway; Kinda weird esp. for someone who 'grew up' there on the Northside. LOL, SMH.
I grew up off of Heckscher Drive and I would say it isn't that uncommon. If you said "Northside" to someone who grew up in the area, they would probably say it is roughly the zoo to the airport, east to the ocean.
Quote from: FSBA on January 15, 2013, 10:34:47 AM
I grew up off of Heckscher Drive and I would say it isn't that uncommon. If you said "Northside" to someone who grew up in the area, they would probably say it is roughly the zoo to the airport, east to the ocean.
Oceanway is not Northside, Oceanway is a neighbood on the Northside. That would be like calling the Southside Mandarin. When I was growing up there wasn't much out in Oceanway and the northside was neighborhoods like Lake Forest, Highlands, San Mateo, Lake Shore, Riverview, and Norwood/Gateway.
I didn't grow up in Jax but as a kid, I remember the Northside being used to basically describe what carpnter stated. Oceanway was still rural.
This video is a pitch to out-of-towners trolling YouTube for Real estate info. He would have been better off and
more accurate by stating "Oceanway is a beautiful part of Jacksonville's Northside that features...."
Most locals have a better understanding of Northside and Oceanway and that one is clearly a subset of the other.
Not a bad video IMO.
Oceanway was rural. My aunt and uncle lived on a farm on Yellow Bluff Raod. It was a dead end. Now it is opened up and my cousin was forced to move from her house by the constant traffic. She couldn't get out of her drive-way.I am all for progress, but sometimes it's nice to have some placs left pristine. Soon they will probably be razing my aunts farm. There are 50 acres. My cousins would rather have had the land as it was than the profit they will receive. There is beginning to be no place for animals anymore. That became evident to me when I saw a raccoon foraging acorns in the K-mart parking lot on Normandy Blvd.