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re: Baton Rouge is not that bad
Posted on 9/6/21 at 7:07 pm to madamsquirrel
Posted on 9/6/21 at 7:07 pm to madamsquirrel
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You have traveled enough to know if kid proximity to grandparents wasn't an issue there are better places to live.
End rant/
Absolutely. I wanted to move before getting married and, if not for close family ties, I would be gone. Hell, it feels pretty close at times even with that.
But I also just try to make the best of the situation. Obviously I don't think Baton Rouge is so bad if I'm not saying "grandparents be damned"
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Posted on 9/6/21 at 7:23 pm to Hulkklogan
Right- y'all have LA centric jobs also just like my son. Since the other grandparents won't move he is on board with us moving so he can vacation at our house for free with a babysitter 
We will probably move in the next two years hopefully if everything goes OK with dptbs job and transferring. Sooner if things go real well.
We will probably move in the next two years hopefully if everything goes OK with dptbs job and transferring. Sooner if things go real well.
Posted on 9/6/21 at 7:27 pm to The Boat
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frickin Monroe is better than Baton Rouge
Now that’s a hot take
Posted on 9/6/21 at 7:56 pm to RockerMartyJannetty
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If you’re single in your mid 20’s it sucks ill give you that
No such person exists in BTR
Posted on 9/6/21 at 7:56 pm to fallguy_1978
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Fayetteville, Eastern TN, Greenville
Fayetteville isn't north west enough in Arkansas to be nice, and it is no nicer than BR. Bentonville area is nice but frick that traffic, its worse than BR traffic because there is only one way to get anywhere and Baton Rouge has multiple ways to get just about anywhere if you know the city.
Eastern TN is beautiful, but staying there is like going back in time without high speed internet, phone reception, nothing. I guess if you get out of the nice areas and into the cities you will have that, then those cities again or NO BETTER than Baton Rouge.
You can get out in the boonies in Louisiana too. The majority of the crime in Baton Rouge is isolated to 2 zip codes and it is people who live in those areas committing crime in those areas. Sure, they venture out to steal, but that happens all over the country!!! If you don't live in the bad zip codes in BR you are just as safe as you are anywhere in the country.
Baton Rouge has problems, but it isn't as bad as the OT makes it out.
Posted on 9/6/21 at 8:12 pm to RockerMartyJannetty
I just spent a weekend in Jackson and it was super nice all near the reservoir. Lots of restaurants and bars and every store you can think of. I think it’s rankin county. Really nice.
Posted on 9/6/21 at 8:13 pm to armsdealer
The problem is it’s getting sketchy around LSU and that is not tolerable. It needs to be nicked in the bud.
Posted on 9/6/21 at 8:14 pm to Picayuner
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The problem is it’s getting sketchy around LSU and that is not tolerable. It needs to be nicked in the bud.
There was a time when it wasn’t?
Posted on 9/6/21 at 8:16 pm to armsdealer
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Fayetteville isn't north west enough in Arkansas to be nice, and it is no nicer than BR.
Maybe we've been to different cities named Fayetteville?
Because I think the one where University of Arkansas is located is considerably nicer than BR and really just a nice area overall in a vacuum. Scenic terrain, seasonable weather, reasonable COL, good economy, low crime. I guess the negatives would be that it's somewhat geographically isolated and tornadoes but I can't think of anything else.
This post was edited on 9/6/21 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 9/6/21 at 8:17 pm to RockerMartyJannetty
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but it’s a perfectly fine place to grow up/raise kids.
Used to be. Its a shithole now.
Posted on 9/6/21 at 8:25 pm to kywildcatfanone
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To hear most of you type, you make it sounds like a smaller version of Chicago.
Baton Rouge is dirtier and more dangerous than Chicago by a wide margin. Chicago is much nicer in the summer. Baton Rouge is much nicer the rest of the year (at least weather wise).
BR has no reliable public transit, and is essentially a collection of sprawling suburbs with almost zero city attached to them. The mayor is also about as anti economic progress as the Chicago mayor, so that’s similar. BRPD seems even more undermanned and incompetent than Chicago PD, which is saying something.
They’re not even remotely similar. There is no real comparison to BR. It’s its own breed of incompetence, filth, danger, and urban sprawl.
Despite all of those things, I actually really enjoyed living there, even in my mid-late 20’s.
Posted on 9/6/21 at 8:32 pm to armsdealer
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Fayetteville isn't north west enough in Arkansas to be nice, and it is no nicer than BR. Bentonville area is nice but frick that traffic, its worse than BR traffic because there is only one way to get anywhere and Baton Rouge has multiple ways to get just about anywhere if you know the city.
Eastern TN is beautiful, but staying there is like going back in time without high speed internet, phone reception, nothing. I guess if you get out of the nice areas and into the cities you will have that, then those cities again or NO BETTER than Baton Rouge.
No shot. The Fayetteville, Knoxville and Chattanooga areas are all better than Baton Rouge. It's really not close for me
This post was edited on 9/6/21 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 9/6/21 at 8:55 pm to Jh22586
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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
Exaggerations
Posted on 9/6/21 at 9:00 pm to RockerMartyJannetty
BR has its perks. Namely LSU and proximity to NOLA without actually being NOLA.
But every major metro in Texas except El Paso is better. Fayetteville area is better. Birmingham, Huntsville, Fairhope, Nashville, Franklin, Chattanooga, Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Charlotte, Asheville, Raleigh-Durham, Louisville, Charlottesville, Richmond, and Virginia Beach all piss on BR. I only include Fairhope because it is beautiful and near enough to Mobile that you can find a job and commute if you needed to. And that’s just the south and doesn’t count Florida as among the south. That’s not including any of the Mountain West, the Midwest, the PNW or the Northeast. Which you can shite on all you want for having “bland food” or “liberal politics” and I would still take them over BR.
BR is a dump, pretty much entirely.
But every major metro in Texas except El Paso is better. Fayetteville area is better. Birmingham, Huntsville, Fairhope, Nashville, Franklin, Chattanooga, Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Charlotte, Asheville, Raleigh-Durham, Louisville, Charlottesville, Richmond, and Virginia Beach all piss on BR. I only include Fairhope because it is beautiful and near enough to Mobile that you can find a job and commute if you needed to. And that’s just the south and doesn’t count Florida as among the south. That’s not including any of the Mountain West, the Midwest, the PNW or the Northeast. Which you can shite on all you want for having “bland food” or “liberal politics” and I would still take them over BR.
BR is a dump, pretty much entirely.
Posted on 9/6/21 at 9:09 pm to lsut2005
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BR has an identity problem.
Well, it HAD an identity but that's been long gone
Posted on 9/6/21 at 9:09 pm to JayDeerTay84
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I live in Texas now. Will NEVER move back. It’s a poorly run city a shitty run state.
I left LA in 1994 and was NEVER coming back (Edwards vs. Wizard). TX then CA then IL then TX then LA then London then TX and then LA once and for all.
Just makes me happier to NOT live in overly manicured neighborhoods named Blissful Canyon or such, having perfect looking botoxed women with more yogurt choices than boudin choices in grocery stores, not seeing grandparents with their grandkids at restaurants/school functions, etc, and just not taking life too seriously.
Just me. LA's warts and all.
Posted on 9/6/21 at 9:29 pm to Turf Taint
Texas is a great state but I have no desire to trade 6 months of swamp arse for another 6 months of swamp arse a few hundred miles west
Posted on 9/6/21 at 9:37 pm to fallguy_1978
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another 6 months of swamp arse a few hundred miles west
Are you a typical Louisiana resident that just thinks of Texas as Houston and Dallas?
Go one hour and a half or so west of Austin or one hour or so NW of San Antonio, way less humidity and totally different climate than SE Texas and North TX.
The Texas hill country is absolutely beautiful.
Posted on 9/6/21 at 9:38 pm to fallguy_1978
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think BR gets more hate on here than it deserves
Not in my opinion. It’s gotten downright awful the last 5-7 years. It should get more hate than it does on here. Totally justified in my humble opinion.
Posted on 9/6/21 at 9:39 pm to fallguy_1978
THAT^^^^
we evacuated to Texas during Ida and 100% agree with this. I also agree with wanting charm in a town/city. The Woodlands is the epitome of what the guy above said. I want no part of planned unit developments, pilates, chain restaurants and pinterest wreaths
we evacuated to Texas during Ida and 100% agree with this. I also agree with wanting charm in a town/city. The Woodlands is the epitome of what the guy above said. I want no part of planned unit developments, pilates, chain restaurants and pinterest wreaths
quote:This is also true but we need to be close to an international airport and my husbands company is national but headquarters are all in big cities.
Go one hour and a half or so west of Austin or one hour or so NW of San Antonio, way less humidity and totally different climate than SE Texas and North TX.
The Texas hill country is absolutely beautiful.
This post was edited on 9/6/21 at 9:41 pm
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