Any Jacksonville experts out there?

[Jeremy Williams]

Hey everyone

Starting/continuing my research on Jacksonville and I keep realizing the deeper I dig, the bigger Jacksonville is getting. This place is huge, largest city by area in the US I believe. I do plan on going there in the next 2 months to check areas out. I just seem to find 150k+ houses right around the corner from 40-60k houses. It looks like these houses are simply bigger (700-1000sq ft larger) and possibly newer. This isn't the norm so much where I currently stay in California so I'm finding it hard to judge good areas from bad ones.

Can anyone offer some knowledge on some neighborhoods in Jacksonville? I'm also interested to know if these bigger houses would actually rent out well since there are some beat up 2300 sq ft+ houses for low prices (but again that goes back to the type of neighborhood I'd guess. This is a big subject so if anyone wants to talk by phone send me a message.