re: Houses in Garden District, Southdown neighborhood in BR

The nine parish region is 800k, not the city of BR. EBR parish is about 450k. Look at comparable cities with way more amenities and much better schools and tell me what the price per sq ft is. I am NOT a BR hater, I'm simply saying its preposterously priced for a city its size.

I understand that BR proper isn't 800k. Just pointing out the metro population is indicative of a mid-size metro and prices in the center of it will command higher prices.

Cool. And I prefer to live in the city and like being 7 minutes door to door from my office. To each his own, though.

And my kids will go to Catholic Schools so I prefer the convenience. At some point we may move to a more rural area but there's no benefit for us at this point to do so.

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Been commuting to LSU and downtown for work for almost 18 years (half my life). Trust me folks, your worry or lamentations about the commute are way overblown.

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How long does it take on average? My commute is 10 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the afternoon, and I have to cross the Mississippi River! My coworkers who live out near you take 1-1.5 hours EACH WAY! Just think about how much extra time that is away from your family! From my house, it's not even 5 minutes to LSU, I can bike it in 15 minutes and be in front of Tiger Stadium if I want).

Just think about how many hours aggregated over a year or even a career that saves me. In one year, a 20 minute round-trip commute compared to a 2.5 hour round-trip commute would save 130 minutes/day, 10.83 hours/week, 541.67 hours/year (22.5 days/year), 9750 hours over 18 years. That's an additional 406.25 DAYS behind the wheel, away from your family. That is an entire year of your LIFE wasted in your car on the way to and from work.

You get what you pay for.

I can't believe people think BR is expensive. Compared to what - Monroe or Jackson MS? Maybe so, but are those really the best comparison cities ?

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I believe people are discussing neighborhoods being expensive in comparison to other areas in BR metro. And $200 SQFT in most southern cities would probably be considered expensive. Who would you like to compare them to?

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At $200 Sqft Capital Heights in BR is competing with Lakeview and Old Metairie in NOLA. Which is astounding.

1.5 hours? LMAO. These are people who are terrible liars. Used to date a girl from Addis who lived there, Plaquemine and Brusly while at LSU and I found LA1 and I-10 on the bridge worse than anything I-12 had to offer.

It's 20 minutes more than a typical commute mentioned earlier. The exchange of crime, fantastic public schools, less population density, and quality of life is on another level.

Plus whatever you like about BR is just a drive away, and I'm a few miles closer to fishing, hunting and even NOLA by way of I-55.

1. There will always be new neighborhoods in Baton Rouge. Forever, the greater garden district area, beauregard town and spanish town will be the oldest neighborhoods in the city.

2. Most neighborhoods in Baton Rouge are fairly vanilla, architecturally speaking from the 50s-late 80s. We don't have many modern homes like other places. We don't even have much in the way of true colonials victorians and craftsman's like other cities do.

3. The neighborhoods were built to promote community. They (for the most part) didn't need big lots to seclude themselves in, they built porches, near the street. They built sidewalks to walk on. They planted trees because the neighborhood was built to last.

4. Neighborhoods were developed by people that took immense pride in what they were doing. They carefully designed and developed the neighborhoods to last the test of time not make a quick buck selling the lots too local builders or DR Horton.

5. For all of the talk around here about traffic problems, bringing up the central location of the garden district should be obvious. Unless you are trying to get to southeast br, everything is pretty close and easily accessible with multiple routes.

6. Quality of living. Proximity to schools, Lakes, Downtown, Mid City restaurants, LSU, Townecenter, Perkins road overpass/ acadian village. All within minutes. Living with like minded neighbors.

7. Lets talk $/SF. It is often relative to the size of the house. Neighborhoods have a bottom. In some cases, the bottom exacerbates the $/SF. Generally, the smaller the house in a desired neighborhood the higher the $/SF. The larger the house, the lower the $/SF until you get to the really expensive houses.