Folks here love shitting on Shreveport.

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.