When Jay Patel moved with his family to Jacksonville in 2005, he quickly discovered that more Indians lived in Baymeadows than any other part of town.
In a largely suburban town like Jacksonville, the inner rings of yesterday’s suburbia become “inner city,” while decades after “white flight,” the furthest suburban subdivisions are sometimes more ethnically diverse than hip urban neighborhoods. They chose Baymeadows for the same reasons many other Jacksonville transplants have: crime was low and the schools were good. – Two decades ago, the Singh brothers chose Jacksonville, instead of Miami or Orlando, because the city lacked Indian cuisine.