Sweepote is a real shitole

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The whole Shreveport/Bossier metro is based upon escaping the crime and poverty

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Yeah that's those are the only two cities in the state where that is happening

North and south Bossier are fine. Parts of Shreveport aren’t bad: Broadmoor, Southern Loop area, much of the LSUS area, part of the Cross Lake area.

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How the hell can anyone want to live in any area of LA

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Ftfy

Says texas

All Shreveport has is cotton. There. I said it.

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The whole Shreveport/Bossier metro is based upon escaping the crime and poverty while remaining close enough to a real grocery store to avoid being entirely rural

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Sounds like you got most cities figured out

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All Shreveport has is cotton. There. I said it.

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That’s silly. Barksdale Air Force Base? Five casinos. BPCC, Centenary College, LSUS, Southern Univ - Shreveport, NSU Nursing School. Just off the top of my head.

My biggest complaints about Shreveport extend to the rest of the state, urban or rural. The streets and roads are in horrible condition and strewn with garbage and blown out tires.

I’ve taken a couple of two week vacations in recent years where we drove through multiple states, many of them also poor, southern states, but nowhere compared to the garbage-dump appearance and condition of Louisiana roads.

Many intersections are full of broken glass and other debris from wrecks or just people dumping trash. It sits there for months with never a street sweeper in sight.

When I travel, I often see a city worker on an ATV with a broom, limb loppers, trash bags, etc. making sure things are relatively clean. I’ve never seen that in Shreveport or any other Louisiana city. It’s like government officials and citizens are just blind to the trashiness that surrounds them, so they do nothing about it.