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re: Opinions on Kip Holden
Posted on 12/16/14 at 11:15 am to Blue Velvet
Posted on 12/16/14 at 11:15 am to Blue Velvet
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On the rectum. It's the worst city I've been to that isn't in the rust belt. My life's biggest regret was going to LSU in that shite hole.
If you were in college in the late 90s-2007 or so, I can completely understand your opinion. However, Baton Rouge has done a complete 180 since then. It's actually almost ironically cool now. Downtown is unrecognizable compared to 10 years ago. Murders are down, food choices are up, entire neighborhoods are being gentrified all over the place, government street is booming, Nicholson is completely transforming and getting a street car (so is Government St), even the bar scene is improving! The suburbs and ghettos still suck arse, but that's kind of par for the course.
Is it better than New Orleans? Of course not, but few places are. However, it went from being a terrible, boring, one-horse small city, to being a bustling, fun, hip mid-size metro in less than a decade, and it's getting better every day: Nicholson Corridor, Government Street Project, street cars, new LSU South, IBM, ect. It's a great time to be in Baton Rouge.
Traffic, crime, and public schools are still atrocious, but that applies in most urban metros (New Orleans especially)
This post was edited on 12/16/14 at 11:16 am
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Posted on 12/16/14 at 11:18 am to kingbob
'06-'10
Posted on 12/16/14 at 12:35 pm to kingbob
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If you were in college in the late 90s-2007 or so, I can completely understand your opinion. However, Baton Rouge has done a complete 180 since then. It's actually almost ironically cool now. Downtown is unrecognizable compared to 10 years ago. Murders are down, food choices are up, entire neighborhoods are being gentrified all over the place, government street is booming, Nicholson is completely transforming and getting a street car (so is Government St), even the bar scene is improving! The suburbs and ghettos still suck arse, but that's kind of par for the course.
Some improvements are good, especially when led by business instead of government. But I am discouraged by the direction this city is going, and the fact that Obama won EBR in 2012 and Landrieu this latest election is very disappointing. Groups like Forum 35 epitomize what I dislike about what is going on in BR. I am glad I live in the St. George area and I hope that the vote is successful. Otherwise, I might be moving to Prairieville soon just to avoid my tax dollars being spent on things I don't care for or ever use, such as downtown.
This post was edited on 12/16/14 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 12/16/14 at 1:28 pm to kingbob
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If you were in college in the late 90s-2007 or so, I can completely understand your opinion. However, Baton Rouge has done a complete 180 since then
I agree with this. I'd say 2004 is when we started seeing noticeable results. As far as downtown specifically, moving the state office buildings downtown really sparked a big resurgence.
Between IBM, the hotels, condominiums, and the new grocery stores...there probably hasn't been this much investment going into downtown since I've been alive.
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Is it better than New Orleans?
To each his own. I love to visit New Orleans, but it doesn't appeal to me as a place to live....and this is coming from someone who has lived in a lot of different places.
I'd move back to Lafayette or Baton Rouge in a heartbeat though.
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