re: Anyone Get to Observe One of the St. George Petition Signings?

Meet Janet. She's a single mother with four hoodlums. Janet admittedly made bad choices, but like many mothers, still wants to get her little angels who can do no wrong in a better school district, and get them away from the other little angels, I mean hoodlums. St George passes, and developers do as they are continuing to do in this city, and that's overbuild the hell out of multi family housing, and now even more new developments go up around shopping malls and next to nice neighborhoods to get ready for the flow of people, and so people begin moving out of the old properties into the new ones. Now, there's occupancy issues at the older properties, and so they lower their rent, and Janet moves her and her four street urchins to St. George, things get worse, and more properties are going up, and more properties are having trouble with occupancy. Management changes are everywhere until owners need to get money flowing and people to pay their damn rent, so one after another, whole areas of St. George begin going with secured money by way of section 8 and tax credit, and the more fall by the way side, the more follow until whole areas of St. George are being taken over by this epidemic and the people begin to move to the newer sections of St. George with the new buildings and better housing. More demand for affordable multi family housing is in place, and the process gets out of control, and now many of the people Janet was trying to get her kids away from have now moved to St. George also.

Track housing starts going up, and wooooohooooo, the good times are back and rolling along again... Politicians are patting themselves on the back, and people working in or supporting the construction industry are ALL IN and hoping it can stick around so they can buy that new camp and boat. People living in the new complexes begin buying up homes, and the new properties are taking more people in, and more older pre existing properties get into trouble, and the cycle continues, ad nauseam.

That's what I mean you can't divide the city. There are no lines that keep one problem away from the other, no great body of water, no moat, no wall, no check points. There is no such thing as a South Baton Rouge, and a North Baton Rouge, just Baton Rouge. And so.... When you create this demand because of a perceived draw for a school district, regardless if it's a positive or not, will make Baton Rouge and St. George a bigger ghetto than it's ever been, and quick. The desire for fast money and growth by people, and by politicians seeking to put a feather in their cap politically will escalate and exacerbate a current problem that comes from evacuating the city under the delusion that you can run from your problems instead of facing them.

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That's what I mean you can't divide the city. There are no lines that keep one problem away from the other, no great body of water, no moat, no wall, no check points. There is no such thing as a South Baton Rouge, and a North Baton Rouge, just Baton Rouge. And so.... When you create this demand because of a perceived draw for a school district, regardless if it's a positive or not, will make Baton Rouge and St. George a bigger ghetto than it's ever been, and quick. The desire for fast money and growth by people, and by politicians seeking to put a feather in their cap politically will escalate and exacerbate a current problem that comes from evacuating the city under the delusion that you can run from your problems instead of facing them.

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Dead On. These numbnutts are going to cut their noses off to spite their faces and too clueless to see the obvious.

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How about we just fix the problems with our city instead of running away from them.....

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It has become apparent that BR is too far gone.

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It has become apparent that BR is too far gone.

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Baton Rouge is not too far gone. Baton Rouge, and that includes St. George, needs a mental enema, and come to grips with the fact that we cannot outrun our problems, but like grown ups must face them as a community if we want to have anything worth salvaging. Baton Rouge needs to realize that while daddy and grandpa were good people, they were also human beings, and their ideas wrong for the future of this city that can only be fixed by investing ourselves in it. They did what they thought they should and we should correct those mistakes by changing direction. It's not magical... Places are deemed too important to lose when people fix that in their mind that it is too important to lose or surrender. When we surrendered the most valuable real estate in this city to the lowest common denominator in life, red flags should have gone up everywhere that it was FUBAR, but we all kept following the cattle drive out without thinking. That has to end, and it absolutely has to begin with the 20 and 30 something's, because my generation and prior went full retard, and away from human logic most places on this planet where your urban areas are the most valuable areas, and are to be cherished, not disposable items of non interest.

I don’t think that is the way it will go down. I don’t live in BR any more. I live in Houston in a part of town that was once unincorporated called West University. They made their own town, own ordinances, own building regulations, many regulations against multifamily dwellings and increased taxes. It is now a very desirable area of town. People tear down older homes and build new ones in the same space, which is the opposite of what you describe. It’s much more of a community than anything BR had. It is still part of HISD and has one of the best public schools in the city.

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I don’t think that is the way it will go down. I don’t live in BR any more. I live in Houston in a part of town that was once unincorporated called West University. They made their own town, own ordinances, own building regulations, many regulations against multifamily dwellings and increased taxes. It is now a very desirable area of town. People tear down older homes and build new ones in the same space, which is the opposite of what you describe. It’s much more of a community than anything BR had. It is still part of HISD and has one of the best public schools in the city.

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Houston is an enormous market, and is not what I think of when I think of a community, but probably what Baton Rouge thought it should model itself after, but clearly lacks the population. Baton Rouge isn't growing. It doesn't grow. It relocates. It overbuilds and let's the old sections to rot. That's why there are blocks upon blocks of undeveloped real estate in downtown and surrounding areas not even the hood, just forgotten.

That is a really, really interesting take on things. You have given me something to think about that I had not really considered. That doesn't happen often here.

And then. Godzilla swims up the Mississippi River and smashes St George to splinters. He next turns his fire breath on Denham Springs. The armed forces come in and a huge battle takes place in br proper. The Chinese get spooked and nuke everything. The US retaliates and the whole world is destroyed.

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LSURussian

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Now you see why I ignored you the first time you asked. You're famous for going after 'gotcha' statements. I never claimed to have inside knowledge or evidence that IBM might waiver in their commitment. I said I was "a little concerned" about the possibility. You obviously don't understand the difference in those statements. In the future when I don't reply to you, don't assume I did not see your question. Just assume I'm ignoring you. Deal?

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You've earned the benefit of the doubt in my book is a fairly large compliment when compared with the rabble of rubes that abound here. You're so quick to denigrate everyone who dares to disagree you'll turn a compliment into an insult.

But you made that comment based on no factual info and I simply asked if you had any. Typically you do, and you're pretty damn good about replying with a link in those instances.

Again, you didn't have any basis for the comment and I agree that there is an extremely low chance that IBM would bat an eyelash over this entire tempest in a teapot.

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I'm sure you are unbiased

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Are only posters with no opinion one way or the other regarding St George allowed to post in these threads?

That's going to make for some very short threads.