Quote:Ha Me and you are on the same path brother!
I'm done with my BAS in management next month, I've been an automotive service manager the last 8 years so I went and got my BAS. Figure with experience, ASE certs, and a degree I would qualify for a service manager job at a dealership one day (obviously those are the Holly Grail jobs in automotive). But I tell you what just working towards the degree opened some new doors for me and I've more than double my income from just a few years ago.
It seems like you've been going to school
forever. Congratulations on knocking it out.
Quote:And... "The gunshot at night area"...lol awesome, no wonder it is cheap.
Around $4000 for 6 months rent is about avg in a lot of cities. I'm OK with $700 rent. That area was with in 20 mins of the school, and the stadium, thanks for the feedback.
I wouldn't let proximity to the stadium have any part in determining where you live. You will only be there 9 times a year at most. I have lived in Jacksonville for 36 years and it seems like there has been a "downtown revival" in the works that entire time and it has just never come to fruition, and likely never will in my lifetime. From practically a Jacksonville native, DO NOT MOVE DOWNTOWN.
Quote:It seems like you've been going to school forever. Congratulations on knocking it out.
Yea it's taken 5 years since I've worked full time. I did have about an 8 month period where I wasn't working full time only part time but the bills put an end to that idea pretty fast.
I'm just looking forward to all the free time, we're taking our first week of full vacation starting the day I graduate May 15th. Headed to Gatlinburg Tennessee for a week.
Quote:Yeah, I lived in Springfield for a short time, Like watching an episode of cops every night
I lived over there, too and I concur. Two houses down from a drug house until he got whacked one night while answering his door and that ended that. This was back in 2008 though so.....
How about this 33205 zip code, by the 211 and the river?
Quote:How about this 33205 zip code, by the 211 and the river?
Well, "the 211" is a 2 lane road. As far as the zip code, the area east of Roosevelt Blvd. (U.S. 17) isn't bad in most places. Even west of Roosevelt Blvd. has some decent neighborhoods, but there are pockets in the area that you probably want to avoid. Keep in mind, this a bit of an older part of the city so don't expect much in the way of "modern" type places.
As far as the 32205 zip code just north of that, again east of Roosevelt Blvd. can be good, but I would avoid going north of I-10/95.
Really, you need to look at areas away from downtown, especially east of the river and further south. Keep in mind, Jacksonville is very spread out. Generally speaking, and this is VERY general, south and east of downtown is usually better.
Join the Elks- make a lot of contacts, play pool for free, drink cheap and park free for events next door at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre.
Quote:Join the Elks- make a lot of contacts, play pool for free, drink cheap and park free for events next door at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre.
You must have missed the post when he said he was 33 and single again.
Quote:How about this 33205 zip code, by the 211 and the river?
Im in the next zip code over, show me where you're looking in that area and and I can tell you if it's a good or bad section.
Quote:Im in the next zip code over, show me where you're looking in that area and and I can tell you if it's a good or bad section.
Helpful hint; the places with the chalk outlines on the sidewalk are in the bad section.
Quote:Helpful hint; the places with the chalk outlines on the sidewalk are in the bad section.
Or cheap rent....just depends on whether you're a glass half full kind of person! :thumbsup:
Quote:Or cheap rent....just depends on whether you're a glass half full kind of person! :thumbsup:
So the polycarbonate windows are actually a plus?
Quote:So the polycarbonate windows are actually a plus?
See...now you're getting it!! :teehee:
Quote:See...now you're getting it!! :teehee:
LOL. Just like rain pinging off a metal roof.