The demise of Baton Rouge

Katrina anniversary today. Oh the irony.

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The trash everywhere, the third world demographics, homeless, drug zombies walking along College Dr., poor condition of the roads, traffic and lack of proper infrastructure. Was it just a bad and unlucky week or is it as shitty as it seemed?

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Buddy, I've never known Baton Rouge to be any different than how you described it.

It’s as shitty as it seemed
The bad thing is there’s no where to go, areas like Central, Zachary & Denham are slowly headed in the same direction
You can get away from it but eventually it’s going to catch up to you

What's up JML? It's nice to "see" you in a non baseball thread. I wonder if its shitty-ness will eventually affect our beloved baseball world.

I noticed it all go downhill after I left.

I doubt I was the one keeping it fun and safe, though I did my part with both.

But living somewhere far more classy, clean, peaceful, and safe opened my eyes to what a shithole Baton Rouge has become, and probably always has been.

I was deployed a little before Katrina happened.

I remember coming back to BR in 2007 and when i got here, i was thinking when in TF did all these people move here. Why is there so much traffic?

Not sure what % of this correlates to your point, if any, but since it's the 20th anniversary...I will never forget evacuating to BR at my grandparents house along with several other family members. I had lived in BR 2000-2004 at LSU, and was in town constantly visiting family, so I think my perspective on the city was pretty solid. The place literally changed overnight. All of a sudden, a city with some moderate infrastructure issues was totally overwhelmed. Not trying to say it's a good excuse, but the difference in Baton Rouge on August 28th 2005 vs August 30th 2005 was absolutely jarring. Part of me thinks the city has never fully recovered.

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Hello new mayor of BR. Welcome to TD.

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The bad thing is there’s no where to go, areas like Central, Zachary & Denham are slowly headed in the same direction You can get away from it but eventually it’s going to catch up to you

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Pretty much. And with Louisiana ranked last in everything good, and first in everything bad, it’s only going to continue into oblivion. We have a pretty football stadium surrounded by 500 sq miles of shite with a handful of old money neighborhoods suffering in Baton Rouge while they get encroached on by the trash creep. I don’t see it ever turning around. I hope my kids don’t stay here when they finish college. Go put roots down somewhere better.

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Since LSU is the only positive in BR

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I thought BR had treated tap water too