re: What's actually good about Baton Rouge...

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I never said it was the best place to live. Far from it. But there are tons of places I've spent significant time in that suck far worse (at least to me). To each their own baw

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I’ve lived in many places that are far better, and while it can always be worse, it can always be better as well. We just settle really easy. We accept the fact that the sides of the roads will be knew high in uncut grass and litter, that the roads will be in disrepair, that we will discuss traffic loops for 50 some odd years and not do a damn thing to move forward. We trick ourselves into thinking BR is growing instead of relocating, that half the city looking like Mogadishu is OK as long as we build new Walmart’s and reposition the demarcation lines between Baton Rouge and North Baton Rouge, that we have more chain restaurants per capita than most places that actually pride themselves on their local cuisine, that our nitelife isn’t on life support and we roll the sidewalks up at 9 o’clock, that sitting in traffic all day all over the place is the norm for a city this size, that potholes on major streets that will take your front axle off your car is commonplace.

We have to in order to maintain our sanity.

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I remember in the past finding your snobbery insufferable at times - I think this thread is bringing that back.

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Sorry bout the watermark. I’ll settle again.

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downtown has been blossoming in recent years.

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BR people have been trying to convince this to themselves for well over a decade... in reality it still sucks. A single street dedicated to night life, a few blocks of crappy bars filled with douche bags.

Also it's a bit concerning when getting a grocery store is a big deal for a downtown.

I simply stated being able to walk there is "nice."

aka avoiding br traffic

A better question would be, "how old are you, for how many years in how many cities have you lived and worked that offer a better balance of the basics needed for a stable, affordable, enjoyable, life from growing up, to raising a family, then a chance to retire early with plenty of years left to do the things you enjoy?

I've worked in 35 states, lived in 16 cities from L.A. to N.Y.C...this is what I found. Your life is strictly what YOU make of it. There are much better places than BR for many things and there are far worse for others. But if you find yourself living in a shithole... and blame that on a particular city, you may want to take a better look at yourself and what you are doing to make the best of what you have.

One thing is for sure, there are miserable people in every city of this country who think life would be better if they were somewhere else. Baton Rouge.. just like everywhere else...is what you make it.

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You talking about Cane Hill?

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No, my boy’s playing soul music and r&b. Actually recorded a track with Aloe Black. His band was on Good Morning America a couple weeks ago right before they hopped on a flight to Europe. Their track “Groovy Babe” has been featured in a few tv shows and bational ad campaigns.

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The title of the thread is "What's actually good about BR" Anyone who says BR is a premier place to live in the US is a delusional moron. But there are plenty of good qualities and fun activities in BR. Keep trolling though.

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OK, this started with claiming BR food as great. I’ll give it good, and better than many places it’s size in the South for sure, but it’s not great, but what really is disappointing about it is that it is surrounded by great, which is why I can’t champion severely underachieving in this department in particular. It’s mind boggling.

Now, for fairness, I’ll list those thing BR has which are positive and there’s something to work with.

Southdowns, Country Club, Hundred Oaks, Garden District, Capital Hts, and Old Goodwood are desirable and have a sense of themselves, and the people from those areas are probably the cream of the crop here, and want BR to be better.

The downtown redevelopment is slow but progressing, and if the young people in this city will invest in the areas surrounding downtown it has all the potential of being a very viable and rewarding place to live if it focuses on local community and not selling it out to the highest outside interest bidder.

BR is located on the banks of the most powerful natural power plant in the country, and if it could ever tap into that power with turbines for example, it could really set itself apart and make the cost of living actually affordable for more people as a result.

There’s a fledgling foodie and local scene that really want what other cities have, and are determined to support good local food, beer, and just local business in general. There are quite a few new restaurants that indicate BR is starting to improve drastically and this makes me very happy.

The Farmers market is growing at every passing year it would seem.



Truth is, Baton Rouge has arse loads more potential to be as great as any place in the south. What it lacks isn’t even nice people. There’s a lot of good people here. It lacks vision and the ability to see itself as achieving more than it knows, and I suppose that’s normal to only reference what you know and be hesitant to change, but it’s not as if these concepts of community are new to the city, just new to these generations of people here.

I really desire for Baton Rouge to be great. I do, but we aren’t going to get there by settling or accepting fail as just the way it is. Nobody ever does. I’ll know that BR thinks more of itself than at present however when I begin to see less litter on the side of the roads and the city starts cutting the grass and repairing the disrepair like we’re expecting visitors, because we have visitors passing through here every single day, and that isn’t lost on them when they pass through.

Sammy's crawfish

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don’t know how anyone’s stays there after hey graduate LSU.


Hell of a time when I was there for school but big NOPE immediately after.

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I agree. I also say this about every weird frick who chooses to live in Hammond after graduating from Southeastern.