re: shreveport vs. lafayette business climate

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Bossier City is like the Westbank.

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I have no idea what the Westbank is.
But normal murder rates are:
Shreveport: 50
Bossier: 1

30-something couples moving from Shreveport apartments to their first homes are building in Bossier.

Bossier is the highest population growth parish in Louisiana.

Benton and Haughton will soon join Airline and Parkway as 5-A High Schools. Shreveport 5-A's are shrinking as folks come across the river to live.