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Can BR really be saved?

Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:54 pm
Posted by tigersfan1989
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2018
1265 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:54 pm
The series of events over the last several months shows there is no safe place in BR. I’m not sure the BRDP, DA, mayor, or anyone will ever be able to control the city. The damage is too deep and is only getting worse. Over 50% of the area you don’t want to be driving through and the other 50% of the area is hit or miss at all hours of the day or night. The nicer areas are constantly being burglarized by areas not even a 10 min drive away from homes valued at a fraction of the other homes. You have million dollar homes which are blocks away from homes that have a value of 50k at 1500 sq ft. I hate to say it but this place is not the place I grew up in. Realistically you can’t blame law enforcement on shooting when they happen multiple times a day at any given moment. You would have to bulldoze half the city. If you read into the history of Baton Rouge and how the city came to be it opens your eyes to this place was set to fail from the start.
This post was edited on 9/18/22 at 1:59 pm
Posted by justaniceguy
Member since Sep 2020
5480 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:55 pm to
It’s slowly becoming Jackson tier
Posted by goofball
Member since Mar 2015
16898 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:55 pm to
Oh this thread again.
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
32123 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:57 pm to
Some of y’all are far too scared to go out by yourself.
Posted by Jack Daniel
In the bottle
Member since Feb 2013
25573 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:57 pm to
Places don’t come back when they reach the levels of Jackson, Baltimore, Detroit and Baton Rouge.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
48816 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:58 pm to
Doubtful. It would require a lot of gentrification which would require a desirable city for young professionals to live in. More likely it will continue to slide.
Posted by Big Jim Slade
Member since Oct 2016
4949 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:58 pm to
Political correctness will prevent the real problems from being addressed.
Posted by Antonio Moss
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2006
48331 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:59 pm to
Would require a massive change in demographic voting trends
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124590 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 1:59 pm to
Posted by Breauxsif
Member since May 2012
22290 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:00 pm to
Sadly, not in anyones lifetime.
Posted by mahdragonz
Member since Jun 2013
6947 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:02 pm to
Baton Rouge was not and never has been a nice place to live.

It's the corrupt capital of a corrupt state.

There's a university that has more people who like football than the degree.

Have you tried to do business there? It's like 1960 there.
This post was edited on 9/18/22 at 2:04 pm
Posted by Picayuner
Member since Dec 2016
3495 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:03 pm to
All these cities start declining the same way. Hire incompetent city workers, work and services decrease with no threat of losing job. Political cronyism, decline increases exponentially while the mayors get worse, DAs get worse, assistant DAs get worse, judges become criminals defense system, all Democrats of course.

The only way to fix it will be to go scorched earth on criminals, build prisons and incarcerate the violent criminals
Posted by Tom Servo
Member since Aug 2009
518 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:03 pm to
Nope.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
134887 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:05 pm to
Unfortunately, this is a saga that has played out many, many times over the past 30 years all across the south. Once a certain group takes over, the collapse is inevitable and there's nothing that can bring it back.
Posted by The Pirate King
Pangu
Member since May 2014
57832 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:06 pm to
It can be saved, but there is no electable person currently in the realm of BR politics that can get it done.
Posted by Tomatocantender
Boot
Member since Jun 2021
4797 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:10 pm to
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This post was edited on 9/18/22 at 9:01 pm
Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
20504 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:15 pm to
No. Next querstion.
Posted by biglego
Ask your mom where I been
Member since Nov 2007
76570 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:41 pm to
quote:

Can BR really be saved?


The demographics say no
Posted by Huey Lewis
BR
Member since Oct 2013
4663 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:47 pm to
The biggest problem facing BR is that the Summer of Hope has ended and nobody thought to extend it through autumn.
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
63561 posts
Posted on 9/18/22 at 2:52 pm to
Batman isn't walking through the door.
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