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Jacksonville is the kind of city people think they know until they spend real time here. On a map, it looks like one huge sprawl stretching along the St. Johns River and out toward the Atlantic, but that scale is only part of the story. The city has a working waterfront feel, a deep civic memory, and a landscape that changes from downtown glass and brick to quiet marshes, pine forests, and long barrier beaches in a matter of minutes. It is not a place that hands itself over