re: It's sad when you see your hometown become a shithole

I watched Jackson go down the tubes over the decades. I've seen once charming middle class and even upper middle class neighborhoods become literally unrecognizable in 30 years time. Few stayed put and the ones that did ended up losing so much property value and others couldn't even sell their homes. That's something they should have made a movie about.

You were a reporter for WAVE?

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You were a reporter for WAVE?

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No I was the station's media strategist. My job was to do polling, surveys, focus groups, A/B testing and run analytics on our audiences to find strengths and weaknesses. I was involved in all departments- news, sales, marketing, digital, creative.

For example sales would come to me saying they were meeting with Lexus of Louisville for a sales pitch and needed me to put together numbers showing WAVE's strengths with higher income earners.

News would come to me saying the numbers in Clark County, IN were dropping and to find out why.

WAVE got bought out by Gray Media in August 2018 and Gray decided they didn't need my services. I ended up doing the same job for Scripps Broadcasting, only this time for 67 stations nationwide instead of 1. I quit that job in December, tired of what has become of the news industry.

Anyway, back to Louisville, I was planning to settle down there until I got shown the door. I did not want to leave. However I hated when friends, etc wanted to go to Bardstown Road. St. Matts I could handle.

Oh and I also was a bartender/cocktail server at the Old Chicago on Westport Road. Loved that job. Made a ton of money on weekends and made a lot of friends. I heard it shut down for good due to COVID. Makes me sad.

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I don’t think it did any of us any favors, but it was getting bad before Katrina. It probably just exacerbated the criminal element problem already in place outside of New Orleans, but as far as BR is concerned, Fallguy is right. BR wasn’t nearly this bad when i was growing up, or at the very least it wasn’t this spread out. I mean, I used to date girls who lived off Plank growing up, and we hung around parks on that end of town as well occasionally, areas that today might very easily get you killed, and that’s the truth.

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Violent crime peaked in Louisiana and the nation between 1970's and the early 90's, but there wasn't social media then.

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. I'm guilty too sometimes.

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grew up in Ferriday

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You have my respect, and my sympathy.

I had to get away from Pineville and move to Memphis where it’s safe.

Our pets' HEADS ARE FALLIN OFF!

I wanna go someplace warm. Where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the Salmon of capistrano.

I'm talking about a little place called Aspin

Westbank amirite?

We have been neighbors twice.

Sounds like Lafayette.