NEVER MOVE until you visit a city and draw your own conclusions. But Charlotte has had a renaissance the past couple decades and Jax hasn't. But the point is there are enough people to fill that bar. I gave you a link to Metro because that's your exact demo, albeit not all individuals even go to bars. The people I spoke about above are in your general demographic. Jax is where you move for work, or because it fits your wish list of criteria for moving to/within FL. If you're looking for a new job in a VIBRANT NIGHTLIFE city, that's really different than looking for a job and HOPING it's in a vibrant nightlife city. I'm 25 and single, so I don't know if that demographic fits me. Thank you everyone, I am looking for a city that has a vibrant nightlife and urban core, but judging from the feedback it is the opposite? The demographic of the gay community concerns me.
Like announcing their dog was gay in an elevator full of people because they put a glitter sweater on him. I WILL say the people I heard make the most stupid homophobic "jokes" were my millennial LIBERAL clients or workers. I even saw T-hustlers walking around over by the little skyway area and nobody saying a word. So coming from Philly, I'd say it's OK even though Jax is a humble quiet city that still has a slow southern vibe - and OK maybe not so "with it".but I have no nightmare stories to tell. As it turns out, the client was a relocated gay guy with no friends so when my friend called me I put them on the phone together for a joke to laugh about my suspicious story - and they became friends thereafter. Once I had a Meet & Greet at 11 East with a single man so told my BFF "If I don't call you by 8PM call me or call the cops" and gave him the address. All professionals not that it matters but working everywhere - doctors at Mayo Clinic and other hospitals, CXS, coupla lawyers, phone company, fairly high profile people at Steinmart, teachers.the list is fairly long. Some lived downtown at The Carling and 11 East. There's also the Peninsula condo building right there mostly owner occupied with private rentals, too, though and gay people. and one of the rental agents in the building was MGM and they lived there. My BFF, SGM had no problems living there freely holding hands with his boyfriend etc. I lived in The Strand rental high rise on the South Bank. If you looked at that apartment building, you'd never expect that - just looks like a normal older building of renters. Pouring beers on each other and stuff LOL. Another time a girl was naked down their hallway in 11 East with her girlfriend getting it on after coming home from going out so those clients were laughing hysterically and calling me whispering with all the shenanigans. I told these Lesbian clients of mine about it and they go: "WTF, gurl, no".
So we hung out and it ended up being this thing I never saw before even up north - some kinda loud active Lesbian & TransW poetry reading combined with politics, dramatic readings, biographical drama put to music, and lectures yada yada. The owner wanted to kick us out saying they were having their regular Tuesday night (or whatever) "poetry reading" and were reconfiguring the tables.
OH and one night some friends were having dinner at a regular small bar/restaurant hangout type place and stayed longer talking. There are plenty of other spots, smaller, or sportsbars or whatever (or used to) so just sayin. I haven't lived there in about four years but there are enough gay people to keep busy bars in business including Drag Race queens passing through regularly like Metro. I did very well there as a dog walker, much better than where I am now in Indian River County as far as how easy it was to get clients and them becoming friends and regulars.