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re: Does anyone else hate living in Baton Rouge?
Posted on 7/9/21 at 9:00 pm to TheFonz
Posted on 7/9/21 at 9:00 pm to TheFonz
quote:This thread is three years old so I don't know if I've posted in it before. If not...
It seems to me Katrina was the kill shot.
It started before Katrina. I left c. '90 and came back about ten years later. Gardere had gone from safe area for students to sec 8 slum.
Understand that some things are inevitable: death, taxes, and the future of Southern cities. BR will be Jxn MS in 20 yrs.
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Posted on 7/9/21 at 9:00 pm to schwartzy
Probably too long but: Born and raised in BR but in the 50’s and 60’s. I have great memories of growing up there. We lived close to Perkins overpass and me and my buddies would walk down the railroad tracks to the Pak-A-Sak and buy a Delaware Punch and candy cigarettes. Going to godchaux and Mr. Steinberg would give me a nickel for a Coke. Going on Buckskin Bill, Romper Room, Piccadilly on special Sundays…all great times. In high school we moved out to Riveroaks where I got to see the marchers going down Florida Blvd. who eventually beat the shite out of the television reporter. I graduated high school in ‘71 and left for good.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 9:05 pm to midlothianlsu
quote:I moved to BR (Laurel Lea) as a preteen c. 1980 and thought it was paradise.
Born and raised in BR but in the 50’s and 60’s. I have great memories of growing up there.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 9:05 pm to Kafka
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It started before Katrina
Yep. But I’m biased bc I’m a Katrina ‘refugee’ but it’s good to hear it from a native
Posted on 7/9/21 at 9:29 pm to GreenRockTiger
Now you have to worry about being shot to death in broad daylight in BR. Hell even the Starbucks at towne center was robbed a few years back.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 9:32 pm to Kafka
quote:I said this 10 years ago and now we are halfway there.
BR will be Jxn MS in 20 yrs.
Posted on 7/9/21 at 9:37 pm to madamsquirrel
quote:I said it 20 yrs ago when I saw what had happened to Gardere
BR will be Jxn MS in 20 yrs.
I said this 10 years ago and now we are halfway there
Kudos to anyone who said it 30 years ago (when you could still see Christmas lights in Monticello) -- you are prescient indeed
Posted on 7/9/21 at 9:49 pm to schwartzy
I can honestly say in the past 10ish years (maybe more) this city has gone to a complete hell hole… I honestly can’t stand living here only place I would hate living in more than BR is Nola… this entire state in my opinion is nothing but trash. Yes there are some good people here people who work hard and do right but I honestly couldn’t name 10 things I like about this state. Couldn’t name 5 things I like living in BR… my youngest son is 11 I got little more than 7 years, once he hits 18 he will be graduating HS the same year, the summer he graduates I’m putting a for sale sign on my house and I’m getting away from this city and this state
Posted on 7/9/21 at 10:08 pm to Kafka
quote:the good old days
when you could still see Christmas lights in Monticello
Posted on 7/9/21 at 11:07 pm to schwartzy
I lived in BR for a few years after graduation, trying to remain in denial about what it was becoming.
Fond memories but very much over.
Fond memories but very much over.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 6:51 am to Jh22586
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my youngest son is 11 I got little more than 7 years, once he hits 18 he will be graduating HS the same year, the summer he graduates I’m putting a for sale sign on my house and I’m getting away from this city and this state
This doesn’t make sense. Leave now and move somewhere with good public schools.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 6:55 am to Capt ST
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But retreating to AP, LP or even the Felicianas thinking the roaches don’t follow is foolish.
You’re right. The trash keeps spreading and following. Section 8 makes it happen. But what else can we do? Government insists on destroying nice communities—hell Biden literally campaigned on doing that—and if police/DAs can’t or won’t contain the trash, why stick around? Vigilantes aren’t allowed so it’s either live with trash or leave.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 8:04 am to schwartzy
Yes, and frick blmLSU as well
Posted on 7/10/21 at 10:05 am to Kafka
quote:
It started before Katrina
No doubt, but Katrina accelerated it overnight. After Katrina, BR never did seem the same to me. That’s kind of my personal marker for the end of BR as I knew it.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 10:08 am to BarryMcCokner
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I will say... I always said i hate baton rouge and cant stand it. Little did i know how much i would miss it when i moved to New Orleans 9 months ago. Looking back now it's not that i love Baton Rouge it's just i hate New Orleans a hundred times more.
BR is a dump, but NOLA makes BR looks like paradise. Its sad how Louisiana continues to go downhill
Posted on 7/10/21 at 10:20 am to schwartzy
quote:
Does anyone else hate living in Baton Rouge?
Left after high school and never came back. Lots of good folk there, BR is mostly TRASH. I thankful that I had the foresight to leave the shithole that is most of louisiana.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 10:22 am to schwartzy
It’s not just limited to Baton Rouge. It’s all of Louisiana. Louisiana is my home. It’s where I was born. I try to take a lot of pride in. However, every time I go back, I feel like it’s worse than the time before. If you’re being honest, there just aren’t a lot of positives happening in the state right now.
My wife is from West Virginia. That place gets a lot of hate. However, there are parts of West Virginia I would much rather live in than any part of Louisiana. That is saying something.
My wife is from West Virginia. That place gets a lot of hate. However, there are parts of West Virginia I would much rather live in than any part of Louisiana. That is saying something.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 10:36 am to mule74
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It’s not just limited to Baton Rouge. It’s all of Louisiana. Louisiana is my home
I can dig what you’re saying. My motto is “Louisiana is a shithole, but it’s my shithole, goddammit!”
A lot of wasted potential in this state. Unless we have better leadership it will continue to be flushed down the crapper. However, unless people have a come to Jesus moment about that (yeah right) it won’t change. The whole country is circling the toilet bowl right now, though. Family is what keeps me here.
I live on land that’s been in the family since before the Civil War. I’ve said I’d never leave it. However, I’ve come to peace with the thought that when I retire in twenty years, that maybe the best option for my wife (no pics) and I is to sell and move elsewhere. Of course, that will depend on where the kids and grandkids are.
Loving Louisiana is definitely a complicated relationship. It’s like the wife who never leaves the abusive husband.
This post was edited on 7/10/21 at 10:37 am
Posted on 7/10/21 at 10:48 am to mule74
quote:
My wife is from West Virginia. That place gets a lot of hate. However, there are parts of West Virginia I would much rather live in than any part of Louisiana. That is saying something.
West Virginia has mountains and natural beauty at least.
Posted on 7/10/21 at 10:54 am to biglego
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West Virginia
Almost heaven
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