Hi everyone! I’m looking for recommendations on local thrift shops—or even ones a bit further out—that are worth the trip. I’m especially interested in places with actual vintage items in good condition. Would love to hear your favorites, or if you have any good suggestions, I would appreciate it. thanks so much!

Does anyone have any jobs that are hiring in the $18-$19 range?

My fiancée’s job is relocating us to Gainesville in a few weeks and my job that I had lined up fell through and now our mortgage approval is in jeopardy.

Does anyone know anyone hiring, full time??

Does anyone have a recommendation for the best place to get nails done? I'm looking to get a gel x set done for my wedding.

If some of y'all actually looked at the signs on the road, you might have a wake up call. You are supposed to share the road with cyclist when there is not a bike lane. There is two lanes you just go around the cyclist. Believe it or not it's very dangerous to ride on sidewalks and actually illegal. So when you yell at people on bikes and e-scooters in the road to get on the sidewalk you just look stupid and possibly crazy. If you want to yell at someone, yell at the city and county to put in more bike lanes.

I graduated from UF in May and I still live around GNV for work and in general to sort out my life. All my friends are either tied to my job or moved away, and I'm trying to kill the loneliness by making more friends!

A bit about me (which may help in recommending things to do): Im very artistic and enjoy many creative mediums, and graduated with a bachelor's in Digital Arts (AKA I want to make video games for a living). Im queer, have a pet bunny, and enjoy a range of activities from bars to quiet coffee shop drawing sessions. Thanks in advance!

I have some music events and I’m trying to get the word out to people on the east side of town. But I don’t know that side of town too well. Where are good places to put up flyers so that I can get a diverse crowd to show up? Thanks.

I have family coming in from out of town and I need some really good sit down restaurants here! Other than roadhouse, outback etc. Please help!

Does anyone know a place that sells Concha?

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are maintenance workers legally allowed in Gainesville to enter your apartment just by knocking and without 24hr notice for nonemergent reasons? feeling creeped out!

my apartment complex’s property manager said they have a right to enter to maintain the apartment, but don’t they have legal requirement to give 24hr reasonable notice for any nonemergent maintenance? my maintenance people have nearly walked in on me half naked several times since I’ve lived here at Ridgemar Commons and it severely creeps me out. they also dislike me because I complained about their inefficient AC units costing me SO much in electricity bills and they refused to take accountability of course, so I’m not sure if this is as far as it being intentional or not. is this legal for them to invade my privacy whenever they want just by knocking???

Want to take my little pup out this weekend but idk where to take her and she’s quite small so I don’t want to take her somewhere where she might get run over by bigger dogs.

I desperately need records of my visit to Shands in June of 2001. I was flown there on a helicopter I want to say on a Friday/Saturday afternoon and spent 10 days in the ICU for something cardiac related that I am trying to get treatment for.

I have requested records and have spoken to that department twice and was told records are purged after 20 years.

What I am hoping is that there is some offsite physical copy storage facility that similar hospitals have their records store at that someone there can go thru in hopes of trying to find my records.

Additionally... if there is a way to verify the flight into Shands, that would almost be as beneficial.

Hi all! Can anyone recommend a primary care provider for my son who just aged out of his pediatrician? His pediatric office didn’t really have any recommendations other than they would suggest someone not affiliated with Shands. We don’t care who they’re affiliated with as long as they listen and care. He would prefer a male. He is overweight and has been slowly losing. He needs someone who is encouraging. I would appreciate knowing why you like them if you feel like explaining. Thank you!

Midtown

Midtown is less a neighborhood and more a post-apocalyptic frat dystopia. It smells like spilled beer, regret, and Axe body spray that expired in 2015. If you’ve ever wanted to see someone projectile vomit while simultaneously shouting, “Go Gators!”—congrats, you’re already here. Midtown is what happens when a college town gives up and just decides to let natural selection handle the population.

Downtown Gainesville

Downtown tries so hard to be a “cool city vibe,” but let’s face it: it’s one vape shop and a couple of overpriced restaurants away from being a Dollar Tree Portland. Every bar has a DJ who thinks they’re Diplo, but their entire setlist is Spotify’s “Party Bangers 2016.” And don’t even get me started on Depot Park—great for families, if your idea of family fun includes dodging drunk 20-somethings on Bird scooters.

Archer Road

If purgatory had a zip code, it’d be Archer Road. This isn’t traffic; it’s vehicular manslaughter waiting to happen. There’s a Chick-fil-A every 200 feet, but the line somehow snakes through three zip codes. And those strip malls? They’re like the Walmart version of urban planning: nothing fits, nothing matches, and it all feels vaguely cursed.

Haile Plantation

Haile Plantation is where you go to cosplay as a 1950s housewife while living in a world where every lawn is perfectly manicured, and every conversation includes the words, “our HOA fees.” If the neighborhood was any whiter, it’d need SPF 100. Sure, it’s “family-friendly,” but only if your family’s idea of fun is passive-aggressively judging your neighbor’s Christmas lights.

Newberry Road

The land of medical offices, sad strip malls, and one thousand drive-thru pharmacies. It's where suburban dreams go to die while you sit in traffic wondering if your life peaked at age 22. Don’t even think about driving this road on game day unless you’re into self-flagellation.

Butler Plaza

Butler Plaza is less of a shopping district and more of a capitalist nightmare. Every store is separated by 12 acres of empty parking lots, and yet somehow there’s still no parking. You go there for one thing and leave three hours later with mild heatstroke and a new level of existential dread.

The Duckpond

Oh, you live in the Duckpond? Congrats, you’re officially that pretentious Gainesville resident who tells everyone they don’t really know the city unless they’ve taken a walking tour of your historic, duck-infested streets. The ducks, by the way, are the most aggressive part of the neighborhood—move here, and you’re signing up to live under waterfowl martial law.

University Avenue

University Avenue is basically a frat house that’s been stretched out for a mile and a half. It’s where you go to witness Darwinism in real-time, as drunk undergrads attempt to cross the street in front of speeding mopeds. The food is either wildly overpriced or comes with a side of E. coli.

SW 34th Street

A concrete wasteland of banks, gas stations, and a wall with graffiti that looks like a middle school art project gone wrong. Every time someone says Gainesville has "personality," this street loses another square inch of soul.

Tower Road

Tower Road is the definition of “meh.” If you live here, it’s because you wanted to be close to everything but somehow still ended up 15 minutes from anything remotely interesting. Every neighborhood is a carbon copy of the last, and the biggest attraction is the Walgreens with two checkout lanes.

Alachua

The self-proclaimed "Good Life Community," which is ironic because the only exciting thing here is deciding whether to pronounce it “Alachua” or “Alatchyooa.” The entire town feels like a Dollar General tried to open a city. Your big night out is eating mediocre barbecue while pretending you don’t hear the sound of another meth lab exploding down the street.

High Springs

High Springs is what happens when a town is designed by people who peaked at the local swimming hole. Everyone pretends they love the springs, but really it’s just an excuse to drink in a tube while dodging drunk dads cannonballing off rocks. The only thing “high” here is the unemployment rate.

Micanopy

Micanopy is like a sepia filter come to life. It’s great if you’re into antique stores, but let’s be real: no one under the age of 65 wants to spend a weekend looking at chipped teacups and rusted farm tools. It’s not a town; it’s a retirement plan for hippies who never figured out how to leave Florida.

Newberry

Ah, Newberry: where the high school football team is the most exciting thing to ever happen, and even they haven’t won anything in years. Your idea of a thriving economy is another feed store opening on Main Street. Newberry is basically that one guy at the bar who brags about owning a tractor like it’s a Ferrari.

Archer

Archer’s claim to fame is… wait, does Archer even have a claim to fame? This place is so forgettable, even the residents forget they live here. It’s just a collection of gas stations and dirt roads pretending to be a town. If boredom were a municipality, it’d be called Archer.

Waldo

Waldo exists solely as a speed trap, and it’s not even subtle about it. The town’s economy runs on traffic tickets and misery. It’s like a black hole for your wallet—you drive in, get fined for going two miles over the limit, and leave with the overwhelming sense that you’ve been scammed by a highway bandit.

Hawthorne

Hawthorne is where people go when they’ve given up on life but still want to complain about it on Facebook. It’s all trailers, swamp, and the distinct smell of broken dreams. You know you’re in Hawthorne when you see a guy mowing his lawn shirtless at 10 a.m. while drinking a Busch Light.

Keystone Heights

Keystone Heights is basically Hawthorne’s fancier cousin who got a decent paint job but still has a busted engine. Sure, there’s a lake, but half the year it’s either bone-dry or full of algae. You might get a few retirees calling it “paradise,” but that’s just because they can’t hear the mosquitoes over their hearing aids.

Melrose

Melrose is like a hippie commune that ran out of weed and decided to become a town. Everyone here has “good vibes,” which is code for “unemployed and living off their Etsy shop.” If you’re not an artist selling overpriced driftwood sculptures, are you even allowed to live here?

Williston

Williston is best known for the Devil’s Den, a diving spot that somehow has more life underwater than the town does above it. The rest of the place is just gas stations and Dollar Trees. It’s where Gainesville goes when it needs to feel better about itself.

Bronson

Bronson is a lawless land where mullets never went out of style, and the local diner doubles as the town hall. If there’s a “Bronson charm,” it’s probably just the faint smell of cow manure mixed with regret. They’re still waiting for the 21st century to arrive.

Lake Butler

Lake Butler is basically a giant prison surrounded by people who act like they’re not in one. The entire town is either correctional officers or the family members of inmates. You don’t move here; you get sentenced here.

Any mahjong pkayers willing to teach someone??

What are the best smoke shops to go to in GNV? TIA

Anybody knows any places to watch the volleyball tournament games? Looking forward to watch the gators play on Friday but wouldn’t mind seeing the other games too.

Hello lovely neighbors! Does anyone have a good recommendation for a window replacement company? I accidentally broke my window glass downstairs..:-(

If this isn't allowed, please delete.

For 10 years, I've been getting statements from Fidelity Investments in Albequerque, NM for a Joshua May. I've been sending them back marked "No longer at this address." I finally called them today, and they are the most incompetent nincompoops I've ever had to deal with. They said that since I don't have an account with them and am not on his account, they can't help me. What??? They said they had no way to contact him. When I said "Surely you have an emergency contact for him," they said they couldn't just call their clients out of the blue, and I needed to call him. I DON'T KNOW HIM!! WTF??? I can't find anyone by that name from Gainesville, so he must have left here. I did find someone who got arrested driving with a suspended license in Polk county, and someone by that name in Oviedo, but no way to message him on LinkedIn. Anyway, he has not lived at my address for at least 16 years, because the woman who lived here before me said they sent those things to her too, and she was sending them back, but gave up and just tossed them out. If you know a Joshua May who was in Gainesville around 2007-2008, and you know how to get in touch with him, please do so and tell him he needs to get in touch with Fidelity Investments and change his address.

I need help!!! I am doing a presentation on Troy Springs State Park for one of my final projects at SF, and I can not find any history regarding the actual town of Troy that was originally the county seat of Lafayette County. I am literally from Lafayette County and have not a clue about the history outside of the shipwreck since it’s not really ever talked about there. If any Florida history nerds can help me please pm meeee! Thank you!

There’s this huge processional going on hull road.. did a cop pass away or something?

Hi peoples, I just published an investigative piece on the University of Florida Board of Trustees. It details how the board operated in a legal gray area by holding private meetings and spent tens of thousands of dollars on them. Because of the reporting, UF has announced that the retreats will no longer be private. I hope you all enjoy it. https://www.wuft.org/education/2024-12-04/experts-uf-governing-boards-private-meetings-violated-sunshine-law