re: Baton Rouge is not that bad

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but it’s a perfectly fine place to grow up/raise kids.

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Yeah, but only in private school. I certainly wouldn’t leave them to this public school system to raise them. Any public school system mind you, but definitely not this one in particular.

As far as the city is concerned, it’s nothing even remotely close to the city I grew up in. I’d rather raise them in the country where they at least stand a chance, but really I wouldn’t raise them in any city in America today. None of them.

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As far as the city is concerned, it’s nothing even remotely close to the city I grew up in.

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Yeah BR was a much nicer place 25-30+ years ago.

This board is filled with a bunch of drama queens. Is it the best place in the world? Of course not. Its not the worst either.

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How was it nicer exactly? Statistically, crime in BR was much worse 25-30 years ago, even accounting for the recent uptick.

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Well I know the murder rate has never been higher than it is now. But crime was much more confined to bad neighborhoods that were easily avoidable. Large swaths of the city that are shitty now were really nice in the 80s and even the 90s.

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It’s a poorly run cutting in a shifty run state.

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Member since Dec 2020 14 posts

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You have done well so far.............continue.

We drove from the I-10 side of town to Sherwood Forest today to help clean up a friend’s yard. We used to live in Sherwood about 15 years ago, and I was stunned at how bad that area of town has gotten. Houses and yards aren’t being kept up [and I don’t mean hurricane damage], multiple vehicles parked in yards that look like they never move, rotten wood, peeling paint, etc…. and so many homeless people from the interstate on around to Old Hammond.

Boulevard de Province was always bad, but this is a whole other level. It was so sad because there was an occasional house putting up the good fight, where you could tell the owners truly cared and made an effort. Both of the houses we had lived in looked terrible — zero effort at maintenance, shutters falling off, landscaping overgrown, etc…. It really hurt my heart to see a once beautiful subdivision so run down.

This blight has started to spread to the Coursey area; homeless people were ransacking the dumpster behind the Salvation Army when we tried to drop stuff off today, and will keep spreading unabated as the current administration turns a blind eye to crime and panhandling and improving schools and infrastructure, which runs any tax-paying, responsible citizens out of town. The same thing is going on up and down Perkins, Staring, and other formerly great areas of town.

As it is now, two of my children are still here, but all of their friends have moved away, and I’m now actively encouraging them to move. We pinned our hopes on St. George but that appears to be dead in the water, or, at the very least, will be too little too late for this area. There will be nobody left to turn out the light.

You realize new areas have been developed since Sherwood Forest’s heyday, right?

Accounting for population increases, Baton Rouge’s murder rate today is lower than it was in the 80’s/90’s

Baton Rouge is not a place you want to raise kids and have a family… no place is perfect but this place is horrible.. if you don’t have the means to send you kids to private schools than there education suffers. Crime rate is horrible and only getting worse, and it’s bleeding from N.BR to the rest of it more and more. “Ebonics” is more of a first language than English in most places that you have to go to and deal with people (gas stations, grocery stores, etc) traffic is a absolute shite show. The weather and climate is completely horrible. You have to insure yourself higher than the state requires for vehicles because chances are you get into a accident with a “Ebonics” speaking person you got a 35% chance of them having insurance or trying to get something out of you for free… living in a more upscale area I’ve heard gunshots (atleast I believe they were). You can’t go to any semi major intersection without someone coming up to your vehicle asking for change or anything hell you can’t go to 90%
Of the gas stations around here without someone asking for money or something… this place is a absolute shite hole