re: How nasty is it going to get if the St. George vote happens?

I disagree, scenario 4.

SG becomes a reality, an ISD is created, and it proves itself. Folks in SG gradually turn more and more their neighborhood schools.

Young families stay in SG. Transients move to SG and their school system. Property values grow as they do in Central and Zachary. Population rises per the southern average.
Meanwhile BR with its boundaries defined, watches as their population remains stagnant. There will be positive growth in key urban areas, but the blight in other neighborhoods will offset that just like it is now,

Voting power will shift as the population shifts and the growth in SG and the smaller cities will help the parish overall.

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Areas like Bocage and Southdowns aren't turning into NBR. There are some very nice areas in the city limits

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Exactly, there are well kept, thriving neighborhoods all across SBR.
With a thriving SG, they should thrive also as they all have their own unique advantages.

They will still be prosperous, but they'll have more help if SG booms.

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In current times, if you're labeled racist you might as well be called a wife beater because it carries a much heavier weight than it did say, 20 years ago.

And don't act like race baiters don't know this.

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But you and the race baiters arr very wrong. The race baiters have abused the word so much that normal people don’t care if some dip shite calls them a racist. I could give a frick. My actions prove that I’m not racist...they can frick offf and invent another word. In my world, people roll their eyes and laugh at the overused reference.

College Town
Bocage
Old Goodwood
Hundred Oaks
Southdowns
Garden District
Jefferson Terrace
Steele
Moss Side Lane
Concord Estates
Glasgow
Pollard Estates
LSU Lakes

And I stayed in what is traditionally SBR

I grew up a few block from you.
that was a mayberry place to live in the 70’s and 80’s

those houses are all well built and ready for updating

the “13 colonies” houses that face episcopal are extremely valuable.
if I were looking for a house in BR I would be watching those very closely

there are also some really great houses down deerpath and the streets around there

my parents are still in our house, it’s five bedrooms three bathrooms and is completely updated. I’m hoping they do really well on it

I tried to list neighborhoods that were in traditional SBR.

There are great neighborhoods east of Jeff Terrace and Old Goodwood

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We definitely aren't. We are right on the border of St George for sure. My argument was simply that there are plenty of nice places to live in BR.

We love our neighborhood and probably wouldn't entertain taking my daughter out of private school anyway at this point. She's gone to school with those kids for 8 years now.

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I'm on your side. There is still a lot of good in BR. You and I know it.

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NBR should want St. George to put a halt to outflow to other parishes. EBR tax base helps NBR and St. George, and St. George is closer to NBR. So, NBR is ‘reinforced’ by St. George.

Those ‘do gooders’ Who are against St. George are putting a knife in NBR by fighting St. George. frick ‘em. St. George is happening and the downtown people can say what they want, St. George is where it’s at.

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Half track, that's exactly what I've been saying for three years on here.

Why do we have different entities like the Downtown Development District, economic development districts, hospital districts, crime districts, fire districts and etc.?

It's becsuse small, independent districts can work for the good of those involved and still help the entire parish. That has been demonstrated.

So why is another city bad? Why is an ISD bad? It can be a win/win for everyone in the parish and a plus for the state too.