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re: How has your hometown changed since you’ve been alive?
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:54 pm to TexasTiger08
Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:54 pm to TexasTiger08
Baton Rouge.
You know the answer.
You know the answer.
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Posted on 2/21/20 at 8:54 pm to TexasTiger08
Wichita Falls is Wichita Falls and will always be Wichita Falls....but it is home
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:11 pm to wfallstiger
My mom’s hometown is Wichita Falls. It hasn’t been a part of the Texas boom it seems. I stay there at least once a year in the summer on my way to see my friend in Colorado.
It does have the world’s smallest skyscraper
It does have the world’s smallest skyscraper
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:14 pm to TexasTiger08
Baton Rouge changed colors.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:15 pm to TexasTiger08
Grew up on the suburbs of Houston. My city is absolutely thriving
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:21 pm to LoneStar23
Grew up in Ville platte.
Please refer to the mayor calling the national guard because of crime thread.
When I was a kid the mayor never thought about calling the National guard because of crime.
That’s sums up the change.
Please refer to the mayor calling the national guard because of crime thread.
When I was a kid the mayor never thought about calling the National guard because of crime.
That’s sums up the change.
This post was edited on 2/21/20 at 10:30 pm
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:22 pm to TexasTiger08
It’s growing!! Booming community
Posted on 2/21/20 at 9:24 pm to TexasTiger08
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It ain’t Austin or SA, but now there’s an Alamo Drafthouse, Dave and Busters, a junior hockey team, and Double A baseball.
I've only been here since 2012 but I'll say the restaurant offerings have definitely improved during that time
I live not too far from the drafthouse
Posted on 2/21/20 at 11:12 pm to Powerman
Upper Midwest town. Went from a thriving downtown (70s economics hit it hard...I only remember a fraction of it after its best) and decent mall area. The malls are now turned into slabs of cement, downtown is a ghost town (saddens me when I think of all the good times at the locally owned theater), and it's turned into another Interstate town of big box stores and sterilized big AMC cinema.
Meanwhile I now live in a bedroom community where half the city has been around for a century while the other half was built in the past 25 years. We're well located between schools but that has meant being in one of the biggest/most expensive houses in the old part. (ETA: I walked outside today to see a bulldozer taking down a house 1 street over...for "blight".)
Counting down the years until we join what seems to be the trend around here and move to Nashville.
Meanwhile I now live in a bedroom community where half the city has been around for a century while the other half was built in the past 25 years. We're well located between schools but that has meant being in one of the biggest/most expensive houses in the old part. (ETA: I walked outside today to see a bulldozer taking down a house 1 street over...for "blight".)
Counting down the years until we join what seems to be the trend around here and move to Nashville.
This post was edited on 2/21/20 at 11:14 pm
Posted on 2/21/20 at 11:17 pm to TexasTiger08
I was born and raised in Olive Branch, Mississippi.
When I was born in 1990 there were approximately 3,500 people living in the city. Right now it’s estimated at 38,000+.
It was the fastest growing city in America for my of much childhood
It has lots of golf courses and chain restaurants. Basically the most basic bitch suburb in existence. Nice place to raise a basic bitch family though
ETA: important note is this is a suburb of Memphis and mostly due to white flight. Still, crazy to see that kind of population growth in 30 years
When I was born in 1990 there were approximately 3,500 people living in the city. Right now it’s estimated at 38,000+.
It was the fastest growing city in America for my of much childhood
It has lots of golf courses and chain restaurants. Basically the most basic bitch suburb in existence. Nice place to raise a basic bitch family though
ETA: important note is this is a suburb of Memphis and mostly due to white flight. Still, crazy to see that kind of population growth in 30 years
This post was edited on 2/21/20 at 11:18 pm
Posted on 2/21/20 at 11:24 pm to TexasTiger08
Born in Houston, raised in Lake Charles.
Same shite, different day.
Same shite, different day.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 11:25 pm to TexasTiger08
You can buy beer there now.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 11:46 pm to TexasTiger08
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This post was edited on 5/28/20 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 2/21/20 at 11:52 pm to TexasTiger08
....
Posted on 2/21/20 at 11:54 pm to TexasTiger08
West Monroe didn't have Cane's or Sunday liquor sales when I was born.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 11:55 pm to wfallstiger
I've never set foot in Wichita Falls, but I can tell you it is widely despised in the Air Force.
Posted on 2/21/20 at 11:55 pm to bad93ex
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Was up there for a game in August, it’s come a long way since 1992.
When I was a teenager you could sneak into the stadium by squeezing under a single corrugated metal door on the northeast side of the stadium. The renovation made it an elite NFL stadium but maintained the aura of Lambeau. It's great.
Posted on 2/22/20 at 12:17 am to TexasTiger08
Bastrop started dying a slow and painful death when International Paper left. I met with the Mayor last week to discuss a few ideas to bring in new businesses and he told me they only have 30k/year in revenue allocated to tear down dilapidated buildings, houses, etc. They’re applying for blight grants and federal block grants, and he seems like a bright guy, just has a difficult situation to try and turn around. A lot of the abandoned houses are owned by people that live halfway across the country whose parents passed away and don’t care to do anything with them. He told me hundreds of them have been broken into and had all the copper removed and anything valuable stolen. It’s sad, but I’m hoping somehow it’ll find it’s way back to how it was when I was a kid. Bastrop was a mill town for 106 years. It has the infrastructure, but nothing will change until the school system improves. No company is gonna want to set up shop in a town with a school system receiving an F rating to go with the worst crime rate per capita in the state.
Posted on 2/22/20 at 1:02 am to Chucktown_Badger
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When I was a teenager you could sneak into the stadium by squeezing under a single corrugated metal door on the northeast side of the stadium.
That had to be what...mid 70s-early 90s? It's funny that down by the foul poles MCS had the same aluminum wall. I miss that stadium... it ended up as my only connection to the AL Brewers I cheered for growing up. 10x worse is that Wrigley isn't even Wrigley anymore. Anyways I was in that stadium for games 4 times before they shined up the turd. (My grandpa had season tickets from the pre-merger days until the summer of '92...talk about shitty timing.) A shriners game in the mid 80s, Bucs opener there in either '88 or '89, and try these two on for size...Walter's last game there in '87 AND the Raiders game that put them back into the playoffs/Leroy Butler making the first Leap. (I'm also happy to have enjoyed being at Soldier Field during subzero weather for the arse whipping Favre took in his last game there wearing the piss and mold...as well as his last game there with the Vikings.)
We'd go there for the Shopko fireworks too... absolutely hated sitting through the bands before they shot off the pyro. I saw better high school stadiums in Florida than that version of Lameblow. I've been there once since they shined it up and it's on par with SEC stadiums I've seen from field level...not as good as tOSU and Michigan though. I've never been to South Bend but my guess is that it's probably similar. (Better than the small UFO the history huggers & Daley forced onto the Bears.)
And would you idiots from up there please stop ruining shite for us Bears season ticket holders? Boeckman is the biggest piece of shite I've ever seen (yes, worse than that trash from TSUN) and the team should've set him up for revocation. He's damn lucky a young guy didn't do a number on him after he filed that lawsuit. It screwed people like my kids from being able to go on the field during pregame warmups.
Posted on 2/22/20 at 1:09 am to TexasTiger08
Houston has always been a city of mercenaries...people from somewhere else coming here chasing money...it was an ugly arse town outside of River Oaks/West U/Memorial.
However...in the past decade, the amount of mid/high rises/town homes on every available city block, bars/restaurants(we have insanely good food here), shopping(not just the fricking Galleria) popping up...I've never seen anything like it.
I can remember Downtown Houston being a fricking homeless zombie wasteland...people hauled arse out of there at 5 PM...cleaning up Downtown and the spillover gentrification of East Downtown is something I never thought I'd see. Washington Avenue is still full of try hard cocksuckers, but before that...it was pawn shop, porn shop, taco truck.
However...in the past decade, the amount of mid/high rises/town homes on every available city block, bars/restaurants(we have insanely good food here), shopping(not just the fricking Galleria) popping up...I've never seen anything like it.
I can remember Downtown Houston being a fricking homeless zombie wasteland...people hauled arse out of there at 5 PM...cleaning up Downtown and the spillover gentrification of East Downtown is something I never thought I'd see. Washington Avenue is still full of try hard cocksuckers, but before that...it was pawn shop, porn shop, taco truck.
This post was edited on 2/22/20 at 1:12 am
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