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Folks here love shitting on Shreveport.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:34 am
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:34 am
I really don’t have any moral high ground to judge them for it. I left after high school in the 80’s and never went back. Moved to an arguably worse place (NOLA).
But I was home last week taking care of my ailing mom. I drove around leisurely and took a lot of it in. Just a couple of observations:
Shreveport still has some nice, old, scenic neighborhoods. The schools are better than they were back then (Byrd was a ghetto). There is not one modern amenity that you don’t have. Shopping is way better since they converted the cotton fields into shopping centers. Crime can be an issue, like everywhere else, but the criminals mostly stay on their side of I-49, If what you want is to live your life and raise a family, generally unbothered, it’s a good place. If you are young and crave excitement, entertainment, fancy restaurants, a social scene…. Yeah, move to Dallas. But anyone who thinks Baton Rouge is so much better, it’s just not true.
Sentimental Slippy out.
But I was home last week taking care of my ailing mom. I drove around leisurely and took a lot of it in. Just a couple of observations:
Shreveport still has some nice, old, scenic neighborhoods. The schools are better than they were back then (Byrd was a ghetto). There is not one modern amenity that you don’t have. Shopping is way better since they converted the cotton fields into shopping centers. Crime can be an issue, like everywhere else, but the criminals mostly stay on their side of I-49, If what you want is to live your life and raise a family, generally unbothered, it’s a good place. If you are young and crave excitement, entertainment, fancy restaurants, a social scene…. Yeah, move to Dallas. But anyone who thinks Baton Rouge is so much better, it’s just not true.
Sentimental Slippy out.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:35 am to Slippy
To be fair, most of the people I know IRL that shite on Shreveport are actually from Shreveport. So it's fair to assume it sucks.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:35 am to Slippy
But, the Square..
That was kinda the Heart and Soul of Shreveport back in the day.
That was kinda the Heart and Soul of Shreveport back in the day.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:39 am to Slippy
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But anyone who thinks Baton Rouge is so much better, it’s just not true.
I mean, if that is your measuring stick, sure. Why not? Two crappy cities fighting it out to be the less shitty one.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:43 am to kciDAtaE
Shreveport / Bossier Sucks and I live here, and have lived many of places to be able to make a educated opinion. If not for all of our family being here we would be gone, and still may here in the near future.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:44 am to Slippy
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Folks here love shitting on Shreveport.
Lets put it this way. If Louisiana was a hunting camp, Shreveport would be the plastic bucket without a bottom outside in the bushes with the broken toilet seat on it.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:45 am to Slippy
I lived there.
It sucks.
Bossier sucks too.
Bunch of necks that like the cowboys.
It sucks.
Bossier sucks too.
Bunch of necks that like the cowboys.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:46 am to BtonTiger318
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Shreveport / Bossier Sucks and I live here
When I lived up on Black Bayou/Cypress it was a nice area to live.
I avoided town as much as possible.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:47 am to Slippy
I’d rather live in Shreveport or BR than Dallas
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:47 am to Sun God
quote:helllll no
I’d rather live in Shreveport or BR than Dallas
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:48 am to Slippy
When your main bar is attached to an overpriced steakhouse you know the city isn’t that great. Also crime there is pretty rough.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:48 am to Slippy
I too left Shreveport in the 80s after school and never looked back. I’ll take your word for it on the attributes of Shreveport. No desire to ever return.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:48 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I’ll admit I have an irrational hatred of Dallas
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:49 am to Slippy
I grew up in Bunkie. Shreveport is worse.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:52 am to BtonTiger318
I live here. My kid went to Magnet which is as good a HS as we have in the state. I live in a gated community and don’t have to worry about crime. We have a couple of decent breweries and many good restaurants. For a city of its size, the infrastructure is outstanding - two intersecting interstates and a loop. I’m married and 50 so I’m done with looking for a nightlife. So, not the worst place in the state. However, when I retire, we are getting out of here. We will look for a smaller, more walkable town with available hiking. Just not something that exists here.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:53 am to Slippy
Shreveport is just a small sized city in the South. Not many cities fitting that description are great.
Stay in the SE area and you'll be fine. We have a few decent restaurants, 2 really good breweries, the magnet program gives us quality public schools, and we have a few beautiful old neighborhoods.
I'd leave Shreveport in a second, but I don't think I'd move anywhere else in LA because all the cities in LA are the same to me. Sure NOLA and Lafayette have more culture, but I don't really care that much about south LA culture.
Stay in the SE area and you'll be fine. We have a few decent restaurants, 2 really good breweries, the magnet program gives us quality public schools, and we have a few beautiful old neighborhoods.
I'd leave Shreveport in a second, but I don't think I'd move anywhere else in LA because all the cities in LA are the same to me. Sure NOLA and Lafayette have more culture, but I don't really care that much about south LA culture.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:54 am to Slippy
Shreveport does take a lot of heat from this site. Some of it earned and some not. But it has one thing going for it that will forever keep it from being the worst city in LA, it’s not Slidell.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:55 am to Slippy
The problem with Shreveport is that it’s filled with Yankees.
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:56 am to thadcastle
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When your main bar is attached to an overpriced steakhouse you know the city isn’t that great
Wasn't always that way. The Square kicked arse in the 80's. You could see some damn good bands in these clubs. Eddie Van Halen was a regular there when it town.
DJ was the pimp of the walk.
This post was edited on 11/12/21 at 8:03 am
Posted on 11/12/21 at 7:57 am to OysterPoBoy
Eden Isle is better than anything in Shreveport
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