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Do you consider Baton Rouge a college town?
Posted on 4/9/16 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 4/9/16 at 2:52 pm
I think of the following locales as more legitimate college towns:
Athens, GA
Madison, WI
Boulder, CO
Ann Arbor, MI
Baton Rouge and other cities with populations over 200,000 are too large and dilute the small town college feel. Even Lafayette is considerably smaller than Baton Rouge and doesn't have a college town feel to it either.
Are some cities just made perfectly to be a true college town?
Athens, GA
Madison, WI
Boulder, CO
Ann Arbor, MI
Baton Rouge and other cities with populations over 200,000 are too large and dilute the small town college feel. Even Lafayette is considerably smaller than Baton Rouge and doesn't have a college town feel to it either.
Are some cities just made perfectly to be a true college town?
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Posted on 4/9/16 at 2:53 pm to Paul Allen
They should never have moved LSU from Pineville.
Posted on 4/9/16 at 2:54 pm to Paul Allen
Lafayette is twice the college town baton rouge is
Posted on 4/9/16 at 2:56 pm to Jim Rockford
That would have been crunk if LSU had stayed in Pineville.
Posted on 4/9/16 at 2:57 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
How so? Why Pineville? I don't care for the part of the state that Pineville is located in. Seems hard to get to from a logistical standpoint.
Posted on 4/9/16 at 2:59 pm to Paul Allen
quote:
Are some cities just made perfectly to be a true college town?
Idk, but Baton Rouge was just made perfectly to be a shitty town.
Posted on 4/9/16 at 2:59 pm to Paul Allen
Athens has like 130k people. A college town to me is near 50k with half the population going to school.
Posted on 4/9/16 at 2:59 pm to Paul Allen
You're 100% correct. The geographical center of the state, located on a large waterway and on the rail lines, makes no sense for the location of the flagship university of the state.
Posted on 4/9/16 at 3:00 pm to Paul Allen
What do you think BR would be like if LSU wasn't there?
Posted on 4/9/16 at 3:01 pm to SidetrackSilvera
Touché
Posted on 4/9/16 at 3:01 pm to lsunurse
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What do you think BR would be like if LSU wasn't there?
Beaumont, TX
Posted on 4/9/16 at 3:02 pm to Paul Allen
Maybe not Pineville but just someplace more rural than BR. Being in the middle of nowhere gives a big state school like LSU a lot more mystique.
Posted on 4/9/16 at 3:02 pm to lsunurse
quote:
What do you think BR would be like if LSU wasn't there?
Trashiness factor multiplied x 2.5
Posted on 4/9/16 at 3:03 pm to lsunurse
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What do you think BR would be like if LSU wasn't there?
Jackson, MS or Montgomery, AL. Which is to say, Hell.
Posted on 4/9/16 at 3:04 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
East Montgomery is nice. Not to mention, it's so close to Atlanta. Way better than Jackson.
Posted on 4/9/16 at 3:06 pm to lsunurse
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but Baton Rouge was just made perfectly to be a shitty town.
Why are you so controversial?
Posted on 4/9/16 at 3:10 pm to Paul Allen
I'm just echoing sentiments shared by many on here. Y'all act like I'm the only one that has voiced the opinion that BR sucks. But you can have your thread back Paul, I'll leave
Posted on 4/9/16 at 3:11 pm to lsunurse
Posted on 4/9/16 at 3:18 pm to Paul Allen
She's right in that it combines a state capitol, a large, flagship university, a decent-sized business community, and a major interstate bisecting it.
Not a slam on BR, but it is too "small" of a city to have that much going on. Katrina didn't help this situation a bit, either.
Not enough roads for too many people...
Not a slam on BR, but it is too "small" of a city to have that much going on. Katrina didn't help this situation a bit, either.
Not enough roads for too many people...
Posted on 4/9/16 at 3:19 pm to Paul Allen
No it isn't
that being said, there is a definitely distinct college part of it.
LSU and the area around it is pretty nice, but BR is too big a city for it to be considered a college town.
that being said, there is a definitely distinct college part of it.
LSU and the area around it is pretty nice, but BR is too big a city for it to be considered a college town.
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