I grew up in Montclair New Jersey, but my parents were in love with Manhattan and we went into "the city" often--- museums, dramatic plays, hot chestnuts from a grubby cart on a cold day. Later, I would take the 66 bus to the Port Authority on my own. The bus goes through the Lincoln tunnel, and from a distance you can see lower Manhattan towering over the Jersey swampland. Then there is this really ugly part of the road where all you can see is the broken brown concrete of decaying roads and overpasses. (You have plenty of time to study this as there is usually major traffic.) Then, as you round that last 180 degree turn into the tunnel, you see the city once again. Now is is close up,
shining over the Hudson. Bright lights, big city. Your pulse quickens.
Where is Jacksonville? If you take out a map of Florida and put a dot where every (say) CVS pharmacy is (most conveniently done with google earth) you will find an enhancement, an overdensity, in the north east corner of the state. That is Jacksonville.
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"There is no there there," and sadly, that's the new normal for most of the country. Actually Gertrude Stein coined the phrase referring to the disappearance of her childhood home in Oakland when she returned there on a speaking tour in the 1930's.
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