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Nola writer asks why people are leaving Baton Rouge
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:36 pm
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Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:37 pm to tigerskin
She's actually based out of Baton Rouge.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:38 pm to tigerskin
In before I-10 EB is one lane in BR.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:38 pm to tigerskin
In before I-10 EB is one lane in BR.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:39 pm to tigerskin
Someone posts on here, this is from the comments 
quote:
The Times-Picayune commenter dualfnyman suggested the area's lack of culture accounted for the number of people who left: "LSU is all they got." If it wasn't for that giant phallic looking capital building and the power associated with it, Baton Rouge would dry up and blow away.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:41 pm to tigerskin
What would be the draw to EBR?
The crime?
The shitty school system?
The negligible night life?
The handful of decent restaurants?
The crime?
The shitty school system?
The negligible night life?
The handful of decent restaurants?
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:41 pm to tigerskin
people are leaving EBR for the same reasons that explain why EBR wouldn't let St. George incorporate
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:46 pm to tigerskin
The loop will never get built
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:47 pm to tigerskin
As someone who recently made this move I will give you my take.
The wife and I wanted to live in a more urban environment, actually looked at moving to downtown BR or even Spanishtown.
Pricewise, it didn't make that much sense. BR urban areas are lacking in a lot of ways and getting around the city requires a car to have any quality of life.
We lived in the suburbs of BR for a long time and enjoyed it, we do not require a McMansion for a house, the typical 2.5 kids are not our thing. All of our friends fit this dynamic and it works for them, they have made great lives there.
Not sure if we participate in the New Orleans "culture" or were lured here by that. Sure we have done parades, mainly with friends and because it was walkable. Had it been Miami, Charleston or Detroit the same appeal of walkable downtown with stuff to entertain us was on our list.
Unfortunately NOLA prices have been skyrocketing and the turnaround in population growth may come from simply pricing people out of the market.
The wife and I wanted to live in a more urban environment, actually looked at moving to downtown BR or even Spanishtown.
Pricewise, it didn't make that much sense. BR urban areas are lacking in a lot of ways and getting around the city requires a car to have any quality of life.
We lived in the suburbs of BR for a long time and enjoyed it, we do not require a McMansion for a house, the typical 2.5 kids are not our thing. All of our friends fit this dynamic and it works for them, they have made great lives there.
Not sure if we participate in the New Orleans "culture" or were lured here by that. Sure we have done parades, mainly with friends and because it was walkable. Had it been Miami, Charleston or Detroit the same appeal of walkable downtown with stuff to entertain us was on our list.
Unfortunately NOLA prices have been skyrocketing and the turnaround in population growth may come from simply pricing people out of the market.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:47 pm to tigerskin
Too many ******************s
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:48 pm to tigerskin
quote:
The Times-Picayune commenter dualfnyman suggested the area's lack of culture accounted for the number of people who left: "LSU is all they got," the commenter said.
Ok someone on here needs to fess the hell up...
Posted on 3/26/15 at 2:13 pm to tigerskin
Property taxes are high, rent at a decent apartment is nearly double than 30 miles away
Property values are dropping as the scum of north BR migrates south without insurances
Traffic is a fricking nightmare, town comes to a complete stop if something happens on I10
Public education is an absolute joke
Cops surround downtown any time there's an event to harass citizens
Yet we're "Better Together".
Property values are dropping as the scum of north BR migrates south without insurances
Traffic is a fricking nightmare, town comes to a complete stop if something happens on I10
Public education is an absolute joke
Cops surround downtown any time there's an event to harass citizens
Yet we're "Better Together".
Posted on 3/26/15 at 2:26 pm to tigerskin
We left a few years ago mainly because of the schools but crime also played a role in our decision.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 4:19 pm to tigerskin
Baton Rouge could have all the "culture" in the world. It could have 20 Mardi Gras Parades. 10 different live music venues downtown that let everyone in for free every night. It could have a world class zoo and aquarium. It could have niche movie houses that serve limited release beer brewed only in rustic barns by actual people with mustaches. It could have poets reciting shite you would actually want to hear in coffee houses that serve drinks that taste like a kiss from Dany Targaryen. It could put an art gallery and a museum on every other street corner and fill it to the brim with paintings by Dutch masters and shite on loan from the Smithsonian, and let people in for free. And you could have free public transportation out the arse.
Baton Rouge could be vomiting and drowning in "culture" and people still would leave if 1) They don't feel safe going to the gas station after the sun goes down and 2) They don't have good schools to send their kids to, where they won't get stabbed.
It is that. fricking. Simple.
Even if Baton Rouge provided all those things (and it doesn't), it would still lose people because this town does not provide a basic feeling of security for it people or even the slightest bit of confidence that it knows what it's doing with its schools.
Baton Rouge could be vomiting and drowning in "culture" and people still would leave if 1) They don't feel safe going to the gas station after the sun goes down and 2) They don't have good schools to send their kids to, where they won't get stabbed.
It is that. fricking. Simple.
Even if Baton Rouge provided all those things (and it doesn't), it would still lose people because this town does not provide a basic feeling of security for it people or even the slightest bit of confidence that it knows what it's doing with its schools.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 4:28 pm to tigerskin
Baton Rouge lacks cultural attractions, no doubt.
But its big problem is that its infrastructure is terrible.
But its big problem is that its infrastructure is terrible.
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