^^^Maybe I'm overreacting then, I dunno. It's just something about the elitist tone of these MSM 'journalist' that rubs me the wrong way. "Jacksonville, known for it's strip malls" What city in FL doesn't have a shitload of strip malls? Almost all of them have plenty.
I agree that the "Jax is 100 percent unknown in the US" crap is offbase. Now if someone were to say "Jax is a blip on the radar globally" they would be spot on, and that would be more reasonable. Keep in mind, Jax is #40 in metro population, ahead of cities like OKC, Raleigh, Memphis, Richmond VA, Louisville, NOLA, SLC, Hartford, Birmingham and Buffalo; Out of all of those cities (some more well known then Jax) only Raleigh is more faster growing than Jacksonville.