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What’s the deal with WBR
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:30 pm
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:30 pm
Livingston is full. Ascension is full. Traffic going to and from those places. Why has parts of upper WBR along 190 not developed at least halfway these places have? It’s wide open with nothing but cane fields. You don’t have to use I-10 to come in and out. It seems like WBR and even iberville get overlooked because they’re on the west side of the river. I’d build in WBR and take 190 across the river for work and other stuff. It seems like it’s not even being tapped into at all.
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Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:32 pm to OKTGR580
This generation of landowners is not interested in selling. Their kids and grandkids will.
Be patient.
Be patient.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:35 pm to OKTGR580
You answered part of your question. Soils in LP ain’t as good for intensive agriculture as WBR.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:36 pm to PhilemonThomas
So WBR is more invested in agriculture than others?
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:40 pm to OKTGR580
I've wondered this for 30 years
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:40 pm to OKTGR580
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It seems like WBR and even iberville get overlooked because they’re on the west side of the river
Ding ding ding!
And we like it like that. May not have all the cool shite here that they do on the east side, but we have space, little traffic other than the interstate and very little of the crime on the east side.
Stay your arse over there
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:41 pm to OKTGR580
My SIL lives in a 120 year old plantation house off of 190. Good livin.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:42 pm to OKTGR580
Historically, yes.
With the exception of parts of the Felecianas, EBR and Ascension the Florida Parishes don’t have the soils to support instensive agriculture.
With the exception of parts of the Felecianas, EBR and Ascension the Florida Parishes don’t have the soils to support instensive agriculture.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:45 pm to OKTGR580
Most people don't want to cross the river every day and the potential cluster that comes along with it. I'd live over there if I worked on that side.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:45 pm to tigerinthebueche
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very little of the crime on the east side.
The Mississippi makes one hell of a moat.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:49 pm to OKTGR580
There’s also a lot more swamp land in WBR and Iberville. As wetlands you have to go through hell to develop it now. I know there is some land in Iberville being used for wetland mitigation credits. I don’t know how all that works but I’ve been told that it makes good money.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:49 pm to Bullfrog
Not necessarily true.
When I was kid there was a hell of a lot more canefields. If anything there’s a plethora of new houses and no one lives in them for a long time
When I was kid there was a hell of a lot more canefields. If anything there’s a plethora of new houses and no one lives in them for a long time
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:50 pm to OKTGR580
Oh and make a stop at the oriental spa on 190 I’m sure they’ll treat you right
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:50 pm to fallguy_1978
i live on that side and commute into BTR everyday. we've got it easy. the traffic is into the westside in the mornings and out of the westside in the evenings. i go opposite of the traffic everyday.
granted, there is some idiot in BTR that causes back-ups every now and then but I am 10 minutes from the westside to Bluebonnet. And we have 0 murders to date this year.
granted, there is some idiot in BTR that causes back-ups every now and then but I am 10 minutes from the westside to Bluebonnet. And we have 0 murders to date this year.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:51 pm to Anonymous95
Oh it’ll get here eventually. It’ll either find it’s way here from the east side dindus, or the local dindus will try to imitate there east side brethren.
Luckily, the cops still seem to handle shite when necessary. No SWBs over here. Yet
Luckily, the cops still seem to handle shite when necessary. No SWBs over here. Yet
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:54 pm to El Jefe
I’d hate to go on highway 1 north to get to Baton Rouge everyday after 4pm or earlier now
Posted on 7/13/18 at 8:58 pm to lsucoonass
Agreed. I could never do the Dow thing because of LA1 N in the afternoon. Luckily, that’s about the only traffic we have.
One downside is, when you need to get to BR on a Saturday I10 east is a clusterfrick. So you have to go pretty early or fairly late to avoid traffic.
Luckily, I haven’t lost anything in BR, so I don’t have to worry about it regularly.
One downside is, when you need to get to BR on a Saturday I10 east is a clusterfrick. So you have to go pretty early or fairly late to avoid traffic.
Luckily, I haven’t lost anything in BR, so I don’t have to worry about it regularly.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 9:05 pm to tigerinthebueche
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One downside is, when you need to get to BR on a Saturday I10 east is a clusterfrick.
It's like going to WalMart. You gotta go before the idiots get up.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 9:06 pm to El Jefe
Yeah, if I have to cross the river I do it before 10am. Old MRB is a good option, just not always the most convenient
Posted on 7/13/18 at 9:07 pm to PhilemonThomas
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There’s also a lot more swamp land in WBR
What? No.
We all cane fields. And I'm buying up as much land as I can before the schools start getting better now that they started trying to improve them.
Also, historically, WBR has the lowest (or one of the top) disaster damage since and including Katrina. In fact, look at the federal declared disaster map for 2016 floods and you will see wbr was not included in the declaration and is completely surrounded by parishes that were.
This post was edited on 7/13/18 at 9:09 pm
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