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re: Any cities in Louisiana you see having a promising future despite trash state governance?
Posted on 1/9/22 at 4:51 pm to BlueShield
Posted on 1/9/22 at 4:51 pm to BlueShield
Baton Rouge can't really grow with current infrastructure. Nola is landlocked to a degree. Laffy seems to be growing but could use some interstate work to make the growth more possible. Shreveport Bossier will eventually get their shite together. Seems a lot of people in CenLa and NorthLa aren't really interested in things changing. They like their small towns and lack of traffic.
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Posted on 1/9/22 at 5:02 pm to BorrisMart
Lafayette has the most potential, imo, but they will have to develop a new economic driver. Oilfield service and medical won’t be enough long term, and they don’t have the industrial infrastructure like the BR-NOLA corridor has.
Posted on 1/9/22 at 5:29 pm to BorrisMart
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Laffy seems to be growing but could use some interstate work to make the growth more possible.
They'll be starting that I-49 corridor work any day now....
Posted on 1/9/22 at 5:34 pm to HotBoudin
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Metairie
Does Metairie have any room for growth? Seems like it may only be an expansion in "multi-family" units and replacing people who have moved to the Northshore.
Posted on 1/9/22 at 5:38 pm to BlueShield
No, go West young man, and get the frick out of this POS state!
There are far better states to live in this country, like 49 of them!
There are far better states to live in this country, like 49 of them!
Posted on 1/9/22 at 5:40 pm to Limitlesstigers
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It's also an easier commute into Lafayette if you catch Johnson at the right time
It's always an easy commute to Lafayette, no matter what time it is. There may be traffic in Lafayette, depending on where you are going, but most of the places you would need to to in Lafayette can be easily reached with minimal traffic.
Posted on 1/9/22 at 5:47 pm to mattz1122
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Ponchatoula
I think the poster was talking about major Louisiana cities. Yeah Ponchatoula's future is pretty solid and should only get better. One of the few advantages of it not really being able to grow considerably. Growth to the west is limited by I-55. Can't grow anymore to the north Ponchatoula and Hammond's city limits already touch each other there. Growth to the south is impossible because of the swamp and lake. Only place the city could grow is to the east and there so many old homesteads and not much open land that will even be limited. I am ok with this there are too many people here now.
Posted on 1/9/22 at 5:55 pm to BlueShield
Once they redistrict the state, and common sense policies regain footing, I expect to see the cities have to shift bac or they’ll be obsolete.
This post was edited on 1/10/22 at 6:31 am
Posted on 1/9/22 at 6:02 pm to BlueShield
Why is the traffic so bad if we really haven’t grown that much?
Posted on 1/9/22 at 6:13 pm to kingbob
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Lafayette has the most potential, imo, but they will have to develop a new economic driver. Oilfield service and medical won’t be enough long term, and they don’t have the industrial infrastructure like the BR-NOLA corridor has.
and @Kingbob. I am a strong proponent for just connecting Laffy to Nola via i49 and have it loop around Laffy. I think that would solve more than one problem with South La.
I think Shreve/Bossier has a lot of potential also and good infrastructure in place and growing plans for more but Shreve has bad leadership and other than oil and gas and the Air Force base not much going for it. The thing holding every larger city in the state back is the State Politics. Make it business friendly, put money into schools and roads, make some changes to the tax structure, etc. But the history of political corruption just runs too deep. Makes me sad when I think of all of La's natural resources and geographical blessings.
This post was edited on 1/9/22 at 6:15 pm
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