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re: How to save a town
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:10 pm to Odysseus32
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:10 pm to Odysseus32
Out office neighbor is a realtor and he's recently sold houses to people from Colorado, Oklahoma and Wisconsin moving to BFE Louisiana. People who work remotely can live anywhere and some choose to live here. Strange but true.
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:28 pm to Odysseus32
You start with cleaning up crime. Then you get the money people in the town behind revitalizing the courthouse square or town center. You have to make the most prominent part of the town look nice.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:33 pm to Odysseus32
Rebuild the entire town to look like a Hobbit shire.
Folks will flock from far and wide.
Then rob them. Abduct their children to play Hobbits and thus expand.
Folks will flock from far and wide.
Then rob them. Abduct their children to play Hobbits and thus expand.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:36 pm to Odysseus32
You have to have jobs to sustain a town. One good industry or plant can sustain a town through trickle down economics.
Plant workers buy clothing, food, alcohol, cars, housing, insurance, etc.
Plant workers buy clothing, food, alcohol, cars, housing, insurance, etc.
This post was edited on 2/5/24 at 9:37 pm
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:39 pm to member12
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The locals have to want it and they have to sweat the small stuff.
This is 80% of it here. Would add you have to enforce your local laws whether zoning, drainage, nuisance, economic development, trash, etc. equally and without favoritism (one of the hardest parts for small towns where everyone knows each other).
Last, you need people to live in the middle of town to support local places. In small towns that are dying all of the people live in subdivisions on the edge/outside of town. A small town should have a at least a few restaurants/shops/stores people can walk to. In other words, you have to build from the inside out. There are actually many small towns/cities in the east coast and upper midwest that are thriving, just less of those in the south, I think. In Louisiana, St. Francisville is a small town and Covington is a small city that looks to be doing ok.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:01 pm to Odysseus32
I think step one always has to be scrap and trash the local government officials who grew up and have always accepted shite as just how it is. It’s pretty corrupt gotta scrap the local govt, inspectors and police bring in new ppl from out of state at the top at least to change the good ole boy stuff that is just everyday life in these places al
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:08 pm to Gee Grenouille
What new highway ????
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:08 pm to Odysseus32
Hopefully importing a bunch of illegal aliens will help because them mofo's are about to be everywhere.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:12 pm to NOLALGD
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A small town should have a at least a few restaurants/shops/stores people can walk to
Damn how small is this town? Most people aren't willing to walk a mile to go eat or shop.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:21 pm to SG_Geaux
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Most people aren't willing to walk a mile to go eat or shop.
Hoofing it on a major collector or thoroughfare? No. If it felt normal and convenient to walk as a matter of course, we're probably at our happiest.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 10:37 pm to Eightballjacket
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You start with cleaning up crime. Then you get the money people in the town behind revitalizing the courthouse square or town center. You have to make the most prominent part of the town look nice.
This, you have to start with jobs and creating a tax base and beautification projects while cracking down on crime. The biggest tax base moved out of the town I lived in. It’s a shite hole now. They lost their biggest tax base and the most informed voters. I think the Youngsville mayor is doing a good job but he has the advantage of being right outside of Lafayette and is basically starting from scratch.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 12:22 am to Ncook
Hwy 3241 that will create a 4 lane highway from I-12 to Bogalusa.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 4:06 am to Odysseus32
Put the local HS’s back for one.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 5:54 am to Jim Rockford
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Out office neighbor is a realtor and he's recently sold houses to people from Colorado, Oklahoma and Wisconsin moving to BFE Louisiana. People who work remotely can live anywhere and some choose to live here. Strange but true.
Not everyone loves cities. Some want a laid back lifestyle. If I’m on 5-10 acres I’d definitely opt to live in BFE
Posted on 2/6/24 at 6:08 am to Odysseus32
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How do you save a dying Louisiana town? Typical problems such as crime, brain drain, lack of employment opportunities.
Do you start with bringing new business in?
Crackdown on crime?
Incentives to keep educated young people in town?
May be a worse idea for measures to be taken to save it than let it die. People are nomadic by nature...people go where they think they have a chance to better their lot in life. The town was probably centered around some entity which made it viable and that entity is probably gone and not coming back and finding a replacement that doesn't simply come about organically is temporary at best. It happens. It is happening all over rural America as jobs and opportunity become more and more centralized.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 6:13 am to BHM
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Jobs. They must have jobs.
This is the only social justice issue that will ever make any sustained difference. Anything other than jobs that pay enough to sustain ones self in an area is just a band aid. By jobs I also mean small businesses...anyone who ever ran one knows it is a job. Any and all legislation ever considered at any level should be focused on jobs that pay enough to live in an area without the person thus employed being a burden to others. Unfortuunately we focus on making the wealthy wealthier and keeping the poor poor and it is far easier to go down from the middle than it is up.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 6:20 am to Warfox
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BRING MANUFACTURING BACK TO AMERICA!
It's here, just not the lower-level of manufacturing.
The last thing we need is socialist redistribution programs creating inefficiencies like this.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 6:20 am to magildachunks
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Step One: Get rid of the good-ole boy network in local office.
This right here is a surefire way to kill a small town especially when all they care about it keeping competitors away from their businesses.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 6:20 am to nugget
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Hornbeck is incentivizing people who work from home to move there. They’re giving up to 50k if you move from out of state. Thousands of people are moving there from New York and California.
I think this is going to become a trend. COVID produced a couple of positive outcomes...first, many businesses realized that they did not have to have their entire workforce under one roof to remain viable. The second is many people realized that they had an interest in living somewhere other than the suburbs or in town. Not many have changed but the seed of being self-reliant for a lot of things was planted. It will take a long time but as the trend grows it will, in my opinion, have a snow ball effect. Rural communities could help it along by bucking the trend of zoning and building codes which drive costs of building beyond what would make sense and by actively seeking grants and such for high speed internet and utilities to make their area more attractive. This won't be easy though because the people who are there now and have been for generations ain't gonna be happy.
South Carolina is a good example...not so much in the way of teleworking but South Carolina is growing like a weed and a lot of that growth was set in motion simply by the addition of high speed internet in areas where even electricity was hard to come by 30 years ago. The people who lived in those ares then aren't happy about it but they seem to get over it when their property is worth enough for them to move to a lake house LOL.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 6:24 am to Odysseus32
don't. let it die so it can no longer be a drain on the taxpayers.
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