How is dating in Jax? Apps seem to suck. 26M here trying to date or just to make new friends

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This is fishbowl, not plenty of fish lol

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Plenty of fish in the fishbowl

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Head out to St. Augustine and try a few places out there.

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St Augustine would be worse than Jax, no? I’m just imaging tourist and old people

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It sucks. I will say since you're a dude I'd hope it'd suck less for you, as a woman a lot of the dudes popping up are in the navy (aka expect you to want to move w them when they transfer again, been burned there).

Are you in actual Jax or outskirts? Actual Jax has a decent amount of women in nursing, banking, logistics etc just looking around my friend group lol

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I’m in actual Jax, like close to the beach. Anybody single in your friend group? Lol

31F here it sucks, gotta expand your radius to atleast Orlando 😆

Too far for me 😂

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Jax isn’t far from Orlando 🤣

It’s possible my friend, we just have to look for solutions

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