re: Does anyone else hate living in Baton Rouge?

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I feel like so many people are stuck up

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I really don't get this at all.

"Stuck up" people are everywhere, but I don't think most people who come off as stuck up is actually that way. It could just be their personality, they can just be kind of shy and it can come off as "stuck up", but either way, I don't really see where this is the case.

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College Drive made me want to punch kittens today. Never seen a more clusterfrick street in my life

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I completely agree with this. The number of traffic lights between Perkins and the interstate is the main problem. And it doesn't take much for things to get backed up, especially coming off of Perkins.. And there seems to be a lot of road rage around this area.

Honestly, Baton Rouge wasn't designed to be a state capital and college city.

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I feel like so many people are stuck up

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the br private school crowd is quite stuck up

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Now it as if I live in a polar opposite city...full of division and hate.

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It definitely feels this way just listening to the Metro Council and the mayor's office. It has NEVER been this bad. The city f&%ked up so bad by electing Broome.

This is the product of all of those well-meaning white progressives. They think that just because some republicans are a bunch of bible-thumping lunatics that the democrats must all be a bunch of open-minded, freedom-loving bunch, but they're not. The identity politics wing of the democratic party is nothing but a bunch of fun police who use fake outrage and chaos as a smoke screen to crush freedom and steal money, hiding behind their race and their gender to shield themselves from criticism. Anything nice the open-minded white progressives start, the racist democrats will destroy as soon as they use those well-meaning whites to gain power. Guess what, well-meaning progressive honkeys: they hate you too. Now, they're in charge and you're getting thrown in the woodchipper with us. Investment is drying up as businesses are getting slandered and dragged through the mud, crime is spiraling out of control as the criminals are getting free reign, the bars are getting shut down, and the taxpayers are getting straight up fleeced by bold-faced robbery (see Council on Aging).

YOU DID THIS! YOU DID THIS BR Business Report! YOU DID THIS cycling hippies eating at MJ's. YOU DID THIS artista chicks hanging out at the Spoon on Drag Night. YOU DID THIS neckbeards drinking try-hard cocktails at Radio Bar. YOU sold this city out in the name of virtue-signalling. I hope you're proud. I'm sure your social media feed approves of the fruits of your Social Justice campaign. The world so needed warriors like yourselves.

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Make your point and don’t worry about instructing me, squirt.

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You claimed they are fun to watch because they “regularly” have Olympians on the rosters. They have a combined one Olympian in their histories. The “regular” appearance of Olympians on their rosters is not a thing and therefore cannot add to their entertainment value.

If these events are so fun to watch, why haven’t you watched frequently enough to know this?

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BR has its issues of course, but the positives FAR FAR outweigh the negatives

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Please.. The list. Let’s have it

I was born in BR in 1973 and lived there until I graduated from LSU in 1994. I absolutely LOVED growing up there, and I still love visiting every now and then. It will always be home.

But it’s not what it once was, the world is a big place, and life is too short to live miserable.

I spent 1994 to 2006 in San Francisco (with a brief relocation to DC in 1996 for work). I have been in North Carolina since 2006. All 3 of those places were great fits for me.

Find the great fit for you. I’m 45 now, and life just speeds by faster and faster. Don’t live miserable. Don’t wake up one day and regret not doing something to change your situation. It’s yours to change. No excuses, no regrets!

Listen to yourself. You’re no different from them.

The traffic can be exhausting. But I thank god that I don’t have to live in Atl, Houston or Dallas and deal with their traffic

Threads like these are really something else. I sincerely believe that most of the Germans who died trying to make it past the Berlin Wall hated living in East Germany a little bit less than some of the people on this site hate living in Baton Rouge.

As someone with no dog in the fight, I'm not saying that anyone here is wrong to feel the way they do. Some of the problems with BR described here are truly terrible. There are a lot of things that I really dislike about Alabama, and chances are I won't live here forever, but I've never felt the need to be as poetically outraged about the state of things as people are in thread after thread after thread about why BR sucks. I suppose it really must be that bad.

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Listen to yourself. You’re no different from them

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Meh. He's not entirely wrong. Broome and some of the radical, far left councilman are shite stains on this community