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How has your hometown changed since you’ve been alive?
Posted on 2/21/20 at 7:55 pm
Posted on 2/21/20 at 7:55 pm
I’m 33 years old, and have lived in this mediocre city all of my life, except for the years I attended LSU.
Corpus Christi is very resistant to change, unlike cities up the interstate. With that said, it is growing and seems to be doing quite well.
When I was born, the census said the population was 231,999. The estimate now is 326,554.
It ain’t Austin or SA, but now there’s an Alamo Drafthouse, Dave and Busters, a junior hockey team, and Double A baseball.
The bayfront has had a nice facelift and has bars and condos instead of vacant buildings
I read horror stories about plenty of places in the South and Southeast. It ain’t paradise here, but it’s a helluva different than when I was a kid.
Corpus Christi is very resistant to change, unlike cities up the interstate. With that said, it is growing and seems to be doing quite well.
When I was born, the census said the population was 231,999. The estimate now is 326,554.
It ain’t Austin or SA, but now there’s an Alamo Drafthouse, Dave and Busters, a junior hockey team, and Double A baseball.
The bayfront has had a nice facelift and has bars and condos instead of vacant buildings
I read horror stories about plenty of places in the South and Southeast. It ain’t paradise here, but it’s a helluva different than when I was a kid.
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Posted on 2/21/20 at 7:57 pm to TexasTiger08
There are upper decks on Tiger Stadium
Posted on 2/21/20 at 7:57 pm to TexasTiger08
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I read horror stories about plenty of places in the South and Southeast.
You spend too much time on TD. Most of the South is growing and doing well.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 7:57 pm to TexasTiger08
Bigger population, tornado left a path of destruction through the center of it and the rebuild is like a foreign country to me, more apartment and condo buildings.
That’s about all I can think of.
That’s about all I can think of.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 7:58 pm to TexasTiger08
Shreveport has become an economic powerhouse.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 7:59 pm to The Spleen
1000% increase in minorities and it has stagnated bigly.
Downtown half empty with a massive Wally World on the edge of town.
Downtown half empty with a massive Wally World on the edge of town.
This post was edited on 2/21/20 at 8:00 pm
Posted on 2/21/20 at 7:59 pm to TexasTiger08
If not exactly thriving it was stable. Now it's well on its way to becoming a ghost town.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:00 pm to TexasTiger08
We got a Dairy Queen and a new Sonic
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:00 pm to TexasTiger08
Destroyed by Michael.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:00 pm to TexasTiger08
I grew up on the westbank. Nola not Israel. Place has gotten shittier. Mostly in the past 5-10 years. Poorer and more run down. Place is a dump.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:03 pm to TexasTiger08
Perkins isn’t a two-lane blacktop anymore, which is nice.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:03 pm to TexasTiger08
Two dude got kilt by trains and we won a state championship in football and baseball.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:05 pm to TexasTiger08
My home town was a redneck BR suburb with nothing but a FastTrack and a Winn Dixie. It's probably more than double the population it was when I grew up there.
It's still a redneck BR suburb but there's a lot more out there now.
It's still a redneck BR suburb but there's a lot more out there now.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:05 pm to TexasTiger08
3 grocery stores down to 1
Kwik Trip and Walgreens came in though
Kwik Trip and Walgreens came in though
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:06 pm to TexasTiger08
We have a 2nd traffic light, about a quarter mile from the original one.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:09 pm to bad93ex
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3 grocery stores down to 1
Kwik Trip and Walgreens came in though
Wal Mart killed the last stand alone grocery store here a couple years ago.
No Walgreens.
I'd say Wally World has at least 90% of total retail in this town now.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:14 pm to TexasTiger08
I grew up in BTR and left in ‘73. It would be a shorter list for me to make on the things that have remained the same since then.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:16 pm to TexasTiger08
Covington is both better...and worse.
It is better in that the resturaunts are nicer, the events and activities calendar is packed, and the downtown area is vibrant.
It is worse in that it has traffic congestion that won't be realistically curtailed (Covington is virtually an island as you have to cross a bridge to enter), there is a "hood" and it has "hood related" issues, and the rapid growth in outlying areas has caused infrastructure concerns impacting drainage (the rivers can currently only handle so much).
Overall, it is better imho...for now.
It is better in that the resturaunts are nicer, the events and activities calendar is packed, and the downtown area is vibrant.
It is worse in that it has traffic congestion that won't be realistically curtailed (Covington is virtually an island as you have to cross a bridge to enter), there is a "hood" and it has "hood related" issues, and the rapid growth in outlying areas has caused infrastructure concerns impacting drainage (the rivers can currently only handle so much).
Overall, it is better imho...for now.
This post was edited on 2/21/20 at 9:18 pm
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:16 pm to BuckyCheese
Walmart would be a godsend for the little town since it would be a massive improvement over the horrible grocery store. Produce is bad within a day or two of being taken home and prices are nearly double of a normal grocery store. Also the Fleet Farm is bar none the worst for that entire company.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:17 pm to TexasTiger08
My old neighborhood in New Orleans, Gentilly Terrace, went to hell.
This post was edited on 2/21/20 at 8:20 pm
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