re: Do you see any Cities in Louisiana with a promising future?

Choudrant

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Way to kill the last standing mom & pop folks.

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That’s exactly why areas to the north and west of BR refuse to allow growth. They’re happy being the small towns. Texas pisses me off to no end when it comes to over development. It’s like nothing is safe. They will clear cut anything and build crappy cheap communities with shitty strips containing very few useful businesses. Usually ends up being vape shops, Mexican restaurants or empty with for lease signs in the windows for years.

You don’t want this in a place like St Francisville. It’s one of the few places left in Louisiana that truly has an authentic feel to it. A classic southern town feeling. Not that generic shite that Texas puts out.

Puhleeeze......Franco's? That's so 1980's . Try Pelican or Stone Creek. Francos is for the unsophisticated.

Broussard and Youngsville are blowing up… they are going to become a major economic engine for LA for decades, with the obvious spillover benefits to Lafayette you would expect.

That area is the portion of the state that Louisiana will be most proud of in the very near future.

It’s just people from New Iberia and Breaux Bridge moving to a suburb of Lafayette.

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Broussard and Youngsville are blowing up… they are going to become a major economic engine for LA for decades, with the obvious spillover benefits to Lafayette you would expect. That area is the portion of the state that Louisiana will be most proud of in the very near future.

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Acadiana in general is a major player but it’s not #1. Louisiana is a coastal state and so much of what is done economically is based around water. There’s no water in Youngsville Broussard. It’s also just such an ugly area when you look at the terrain.

They flood over there very easily due to the terrain and the way things are built. There’s little to no building code restrictions. It’s a natural flood plain if I’m not mistaken. That’s why sugar cane grows so well there.

Thought about this topic last night, in fact I've thought about this for decades.
Louisiana has no excuse for being like it is today.

The state is blessed with natural resources such as oil, natural gas, fertile land for agriculture (rice,sugar cane,cotton, truck vegetables) with long growing seasons, millions of acres of timber. Waterways full of fish. Hundreds of miles of navigable waterways for shipping and railroads. Located on the mouth of a major river .

One would think with all of these resources the state would be in a much favorable position than it is. What the phuck happened ?

We have one of the largest state prisons in the country and it is full of some the most violent people you would not want to meet.
Our public education system is pitiful. Graduation rates are very low. Reading comprehension is low. Skills are low. College students that graduate leave and the state a couple days after graduating. Our flagship university has about a 40 % graduation rate. The largest HBCU has an even lower graduation rate.

Any logical thinking person would step back and say 'what is going on here ? ' .

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Broussard and Youngsville are blowing up…

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the area south of Laffy is nice, compared to da Shreveport. Lots going on down there. The road through town when 49 ends is rough as a cob though, holy shite.

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Nope. Currently saving up to move to a suburb of Waco

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