Are you in the Jacksonville group?

“Are We Dating The Same Guy” is a network of private Facebook groups, each one tied to a city or region. Women join the group for where they live, post a photo or a screenshot of a man they’ve met or matched with, and ask whether anyone else knows him. Here is how that works in Jacksonville.

One group for a very wide city

Jacksonville covers an unusually large area. The city takes in most of Duval County, and driving from the Westside to the beaches can feel like driving to another town. The main group reflects that reach. It’s named for Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Northeast Florida, and it has about 58,000 members.

A group that size brings together women who might never cross paths in person. Someone in Orange Park and someone in Ponte Vedra can belong to the same group and see the same posts, and a man who has dated across the area can come up in front of all of them at once.

Jax Beach, Neptune and Atlantic, then back over the river

The beach towns of Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach and Atlantic Beach have their own nightlife and their own crowd, and a lot of first dates happen there on weekends. Closer in, Riverside and San Marco face each other across the St. Johns River, each with its own restaurants and bars, while newer neighborhoods keep spreading south toward St. Johns County. Most people drive everywhere, and a date can easily mean half an evening on the road. The University of North Florida on the Southside and the large hospitals around the city add students, nurses and medical staff, many of them working shifts that make the apps the easiest way to meet someone.

Navy schedules and time away

NAS Jacksonville on the river and Naval Station Mayport at its mouth bring a large Navy population to the city, and Kings Bay sits just over the Georgia line. Navy life shapes dating here. Sailors deploy, come back, change commands and move on, and relationships often begin or end around those dates.

That rhythm can leave a man unsure what was said while he was away. A post doesn’t depend on him being in town, and it doesn’t disappear because he’s been at sea.

St. Augustine and South Georgia

St. Augustine is named in the group itself, and the drive down I-95 or along A1A puts it well within dating range. To the north, towns in South Georgia such as St. Marys and Kingsland are close enough that some people date across the state line as a matter of course. Fernandina Beach and Amelia Island have a smaller scene of their own, and Orange Park and Fleming Island anchor the suburbs to the southwest in Clay County.

How a Jacksonville search runs

We start with the main Northeast Florida group, then check the other groups a Jacksonville post would plausibly reach, covering the beach communities, St. Johns County and South Georgia. If you were stationed somewhere before Jacksonville, or have dated elsewhere in Florida, give us those details when you check out and we’ll search that area as well.

You’ll have a written answer within 24 hours, and the question stops being something you have to carry around.