re: The Standard at Baton Rouge Student Living

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"Luxury student housing" should not exist. What happened to the days where college kids lived in shitty dorms and them upgraded to shitty off-campus housing? People on here talk about the pussification of America. This is part of it.

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While I somewhat agree, and grew up when at best some daddy's girls lived in University Crossroads, High V, or Brooke Hollow, and guys(no matter how deep their family pockets were or quality of nice sled driven) lived in old ratty AC Lewis apts built many decades earlier..

It's just the way it is today, parents have long seen the smart play as buying condos, garden homes, instead of wasting rent for 5 or 6 years.

LSU's Tier 1 recruitment of Texas non-10%er students growing up in HTown McMansions and Dallas castles with Fortune 500 parents,etc..are accustomed to nice environs, outside of slumming one year in the flea-ridden frat house, they are gonna go grab a Beau Pre or Lake Beau Pre, The Venue,etc..place as their second college pads.

Toss in a better and more available college job market than ever in BR for students. TOPS, Perkins, and deeper college loans than formerly available to students,etc..

I see so many college kids in sushi joints, and non fast food joints in BR, it's unreal..

These kids eat $10 takeout sandwiches from Inga's, AM Mart,etc..they aren't on ramen or at Pancho's raising the flag.