Springfield Wars.

[Springfielder]

The borders for Springfield are 1sts to the RR tracks at 14th, from Boulevard to Ionia. The border for the east-west rivalry is Main street.

As for the neighborhood getting better....that's been happening for the past 10+ years...it's the people renovating the old houses, as well as the new ones. The revitalization pretty much started on the west side, and the east side has seen a dramatic change within the past 5 years.

[Springfield Girl]

The East-West thing is just a way to describe where you live to fellow Springfielders. It has become a jokingly, friendly rivalry and the Springfield sports teams are broken down in that way.

[fsu813]

i'm on a boat?

[Deuce]

I'm riding on a dolphin doing flips and shiz

[Omarvelous09]

So I've lived in Springfield most of my life, after my father passed i inherited my home. The house is located on Boulevard between 5Th and 6Th. Now I've always considered Springfield to be a nice neighborhood. Never had a break in or felt threatened, but that could be for a number of reason....but that's another thread  .

SO to get to the point of this...i attended the opening of Walkers Wine bar in R'side and engaged in convo with a woman who lived in California but was renovating a bungalow in springfield. So she asked me where i lived in springfield, then she replied "Oh, you don't even need cable over there! You can just look out your window." i didn't get it at first..then she said "well my house is on Ionia".

What happen to the days of us Springfielders sticking together (even if your house was really on the east side!). I moved out of riverside for the same reason, i didn't like the Avondale vs. Riverside bull. I expect more out my neighbors, so leave the yuppie attitudes at the door when you come into Springfield.

sorry...needed to vent. lol

HA HA, that is funny man. I am not laughing at you, but I am laughing at the comment she made about cable ROFL!! When I stayed in Riverside I used to get the "are you gay?" question asked to me. I guess people stereotype neighborhoods...

I do have on pet peeve in your post bruh and that is...EASTSIDE is not a side of town lol. You can live IN Eastside but not ON Eastside...the Real Eastside of Jax is Jax/Atlantic/Neptune Beaches...I use to hate those kids that would call Easy E on 92.7 and say "yea we from the Eastside" and Im like "No you on the Northside!" ha ha ha all good though champion. I never remember Springfield being a real bad area. I always felt safe out there. plus I heard it is getting better because of how good Main Street is looking.

Like the other guys said.. the East/West thing is about what side of Main st. you live on. As to the comment about East side being a part of town...you re right it hasn't been an official part of town in years, rather a neighborhood. My father was born and raised on the "east side" when it was an established African American neighborhood. With springfielders (mainly west-siders) saying someone lives on the ease side not only means east of main st. as a slam to refer to someones house being outside of the boundaries or in a bad part of springfield.

[hanjin1]

I'm riding on a dolphin doing flips and shiz

The best lyric is 'F*** trees, I climb buoys mother F***ers'

[samiam]

got my swim trunks and my flippy floppies

[Deuce]

This boat engine make noise motherfer

[samiam]

Im flippin burgers you at kinkos flippin copies

[samiam]

sup deuce

[samiam]

After spending 12 years on a "BOAT" I got a real kick out of that video

[Deuce]

Word Sam! Every video Samberg has done is hilarious and the CD is great too.

[heights unknown]

Most of you in this forum might be too young to remember, but Springfield, back in the day was full of the homeless, winos, bums, tramps, prostitutes, you name it, Springfield had it in those genres.  It's hard to shed an image once you're tagged; you young'uns remember very little from that time, but those of us who was born, grew up, or lived or hung out in Springfield back in the day remember, and let's face it, Springfield still has a long way to go before it is the "pristine" neighborhood that everyone yearns for it to be, trying to shed the image of its dark past. 

And don't be fooled; people who live outside of Jax and are investing in Springfield are well aware of Springfield's dark past and it's generally repulsive reputation relative to its past, even the newbies are somewhat aware of what Springfield used to be.

It's hard to move on and move forward when you're tagged.  I was in Jax three months ago and I was impressed with Springfield because I remember it in a much darker, unsuccessful and rowdy light. That being said, it appears that Springfield is moving forward for the better, and Riverside/Avondale is regressing and decaying (as is Arlington).

Heights Unknown

[zoo]

Springfield still has a long way to go before it is the "pristine" neighborhood that everyone yearns for it to be, trying to shed the image of its dark past. 

And don't be fooled; people who live outside of Jax and are investing in Springfield are well aware of Springfield's dark past and it's generally repulsive reputation relative to its past, even the newbies are somewhat aware of what Springfield used to be.

Heights, the more you bring it up, the more it stays around. The more it gets brought up, the more it benefits "people who live outside of Jax" who are looking for places to do their kind of investing (which is really where the repulsiveness comes from, not the neighborhood and its assets).

The more people who don't live here keep doing their kind of investing, that is what is keeping it from taking that final step toward what you call "pristine" (although I assure you most "newbies" in Springfield don't want it "pristine" either, or they would have chosen the suburbs).

There are still snakes around, foisting and enabling situations onto the community to keep it down (which is financially fortuitous for their kind of investing). And there are those who are doing everything they can to make sure they ultimately do not succeed.

[samiam]

There are so many examples of city's that where "Tagged" willamsburg Virgina Was a backwoods no place. 42ND street in New York was a den of "homeless, winos, bums, tramps and prostitutes" Downtown Baltimore Had the combat zone. just to name a few