re: Does anyone else hate living in Baton Rouge?

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 Related: How many people scurry to the suburbs and bitch about traffic like little bitches instead of stand their ground and make their city as good as they think it should be? 

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We moved back from the burbs 6 years ago. I already had my daughter in a BR private school and figured we should just live close to school and work. I rarely spend more than 15-20 minutes driving to or from work. My wife's office is about 5 minutes from our house.

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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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It's all subjective and a lot of it has to do with people hating the place they are from because it isn't some mega metropolis. My wife is from Birmingham and prefers living in BR. She hates Birmingham like a lot of people in this thread hate BR

How? The city was under objectively better management under the bible thumpers than the race pimps. However, our society makes it virtuous to support race-pimps, but uncouth to support anyone who is even remotely associated with white evangelical Christians. The irony is that the race-pimps are usually far more socially conservative than the evangelicals! This last election was between those two factions. However, this city’s best years were under Kip, who was neither. We need more Kips and fewer evangelicals and race-pimps, for sure. However, at least when the preachers were in charge, critical government functions still got done. Broome’s crew can’t be counted on for anything.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again, live in the West side not south of the bridge. 

Zero traffic heading in or out

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You are the only person that I've ever heard say this. Do you work from 6-3? I work off of Bluebonnet and I-10 is regularly backed up past Essen heading towards the bridge. I have a coworker that lives downtown and it usually takes him an hour to get home a few days per week.

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I hate BR/Love LSU. Moved to Nola, best decision I ever made

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I love Nola. It's a shite place to raise a family though. It's as expensive as major job markets without a major job market

Usually at the house with a few friends.

I haven’t been in years but Lavaca Street used to host a good LSU crowd. Not sure if they still do.

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You are the only person that I've ever heard say this. Do you work from 6-3? I work off of Bluebonnet and I-10 is regularly backed up past Essen heading towards the bridge. I have a coworker that lives downtown and it usually takes him an hour to get home a few days per week.

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8:30 to 6:00 most days. Past airline on 12.

Traffic one day a week on the way in that maybe adda five minutes to a 40 mile drive.

Traffic maybe twice a year headed home.

It was better when I worked downtown at the chase tower.

Just listen to yourself, angry-pants.

I mean, I’m no BR-hater, but I can think of a few things BR is missing:
Decent public schools
Neighborhoods safe from property crime
A police department that investigates violent crime and property crime
Comprehensive road grid
Bridges over Bayou Manchac
Bridges over the Amite River
Bridges over Bayou Fountain
At least one bridge over the Mississippi
Decent bar/music scene for young professionals
Mountains
Beaches
Seasons
Days without rain
Days without rain when it is comfortable to be outside
Major league baseball
Hockey of any kind
Hiking trails where you won’t get mugged
Walking trails where you won’t get abducted and murdered by a serial killer
Sidewalks
Overpasses
Bike trails
Bike lanes
Breweries that don’t suck
A decent zoo
An aquarium
A competently run amusement park
A michilen GUIDE restaurant
A James Beard award winning restaurant
Bars where people don’t routinely fight in the parking lot
Live music that isn’t cover bands
Open container laws that aren’t enforced
Competent mass transit
Population density
Korean BBQ
Decent BBQ in general
Jambalaya that doesn’t taste like crap
Po’boys with the right bread and bread to protein ratio
Cohesive, attractive architecture (outside of a very few old neighborhoods)
Suburbs that don’t flood
White collar jobs

I could go on. BR doesn’t have what a lot of big cities offer, but it has a lot of big city problems (traffic, schools, crime). However, if you compare cities that are similar in size to BR which also aren’t tourist cities (by tourist cities, I mean places like beach towns or ski resorts), BR actually compares pretty favorably. People harp so much about what BR doesn’t have compared to Houston (which is 10 times larger) or New Orleans (significantly larger while being also one of the biggest tourism destinations in the world only approximately 90 minutes away) while realizing that it actually has a decent amount of things for a city its size. If you compare BR to other metros with around 500k people or less, it actually stacks up pretty favorably.

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To be fair, only four cities in the entire country are allowed by rule to have a Michelin Star restaurant. Now maybe a Michelin Guide restaurant was what you meant.

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Correct, I’ll edit