2023-2024 NFL Season Thread • Page 2654

Imagining people half-ass looking up “Athens metro population” and being like “dude what are you talking about, Αθηνά has 3 million people”

 

Also @CarpetElf im proud of you for using metro population and not city population this time lol

city population is the most meaningless stat

 

I almost always use metro haba

 

By city population, Jacksonville is the 11th largest city in the country (lmao). Folks from there love to brag about this. City population wise, it ranks above San Francisco, DC, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, and several other cities that are clearly more urban, dense, and have far stronger economies, attractions, tourism. Jax is not even close to being the level of city that those cities are.

the reason why? Because Jacksonville gerrymandered itself in the 70s to where ALL OF DUVAL COUNTY is the Jax city limits lol. It is 918 square mile area. So yeah “technically” Jacksonville has a city population of 1 million, but that’s literally talking about WAYYYY MORE LAND than the city limits of the above cities.

In metro population, which actually measures how many people commute to work and entertain themselves in that city’s urban area, rather than excluding every nearby suburb & satellite city where people live outside the city limits… Jax is only like 1.5 million, about half the size of Baltimore and Charlotte and a quarter or less the size of the cities I listed above haha. That’s WAY more accurate.

 

I need these jesus commmercials to go away

 

damn Shaq, got me brother

 

Maybe you take it as a sign, and get your soul saved, Carpet.

 

Yes but not by the company shelling out millions to bothsides everything

 

And on the flip side of that, that’s why if we’re gonna say Jax sucks at least compare it to similar sized metro areas like OKC and Louisville and Indianapolis, kinda dishonest to compare it to bigger cities that are obviously gonna be better lol

 

Man Christmas Eve used to draaaaaag when we were kids cause they made us go to church and that shit felt like 3 hours. My brother would just sleep during it.

My parents stopped bringing us after my oldest brother convinced me to throw the lit candle they gave us into the bushes to see if it’d catch the church on fire

 

All two of those places are better

 

definitely disagree. It’s subjective, but I’ll take the beach, better weather (aside from summer), better food. Maybe Louisville might be slightly cooler cause of the mountains

 

I shouldn’t let your opinion bother me anyway you thought Baltimore sucked for like 10 years until I finally showed it to you and you were like “oh yeah this city’s cool you’re right” lol

 

I haven't actually been to Indy and OKC is worse by default I'm just being a troll. Louisville is cool tho

 

Plus I genuinely do think the few attractions I mentioned yesterday (Zoo, skatepark, football stadium, book store) are a lot bigger and cooler than you’d expect for a city that size

but really the beach / beach weather is a cheat code haha. Jax is one of very few places on the mainland US, that is a legit city with things to do and SOME good food and SOME culture etc… but ALSO has an empty, vast coastline that is never crowded

usually ”the beach” is either a town in the boonies with nothing to do that’s far as fuck away from everything, or if it’s a city beach (Miami, Coney Island, LA etc) it’s always PACKED in good weather and the crowds make it not enjoyable. Jax having both makes it one of my favorite beaches if not my favorite on the east coast easily. & being able to go the beach in December and still walk barefoot along the water is pretty dope, Jax weather is great once summer and hurricane season calm down.

 

I’m sure there are some California towns like that, that have wide open beaches but still a neat small city nearby

that’s like, nonexistent on the east coast though, except maybe New England but then NE is too cold for the beach 9 months of the year so

 

Coward

 

Haha Dustin’s wife Laura is from Portsmouth NH and would say the same thing

 

Some places are good some places are bad

 

Jesus ad rhetoric has gotten to you I see

 

She would not she always loves the beach haha

 

It’s so insane it’s one of the worst drinks of all time, maybe #2 to Moxie

 

I meant she’d say I’m a coward like Dave did hahah