re: Baton Rouge area gains 12,700 jobs over 12 months

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This is needed. BR and its infrastructure is way too small for the current traffic volume and population levels it has right now. Either a shite ton of people need to move or the infrastructure needs to expand. Something has to be done.

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What would you do if you were BR? You've got a daytime population of 1.2 million and a night time pop of 280k.

The vast majority of your metro residents don't want to live in the city and/or pay for things that normal cities have (public transit, upgraded infrastructure in general) and oh, half of your city wants to leave and start its own city.

Meanwhile, all of those assholes that don't want to pay for anything continue to demand improvements, and increase demand for improvements while, yet again, not wanting to spend a dime on it.

Despite all of this, businesses continue to invest. Must mean we have some pretty powerful recruiters in leadership right now.