[bmelton]

I was going to suggest a Jacksonville HN Meetup, but I looked on Meetup.com, and you appear to be right -- there's very little in your area. The nearest thing I saw was the Gainesville Web Meetup, but it only had 4 people attending and that's a hike for you.

You could always start a Jacksonville HN meetup, if only to find out how many others are in the area. Or you could start a poll on here and tweet the link to try to get it upvoted -- post the link back here if you do and I'll upvote it.

Another suggestion I was going to give you is to hit up a StartupWeekend - here's[1] one in Jacksonville, but I don't know how frequent they are in your area.

http://jacksonville.startupweekend.org/