re: If you had Bezos like money — what would you do to spruce up your hometown?

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If you had Bezos like money — what would you do to spruce up your hometown?

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Buy the town and kick every single other person out of it.

More farmland. Less pop up neighborhoods. We gotta try to keep the country country.

In actuality right now. I’d lean on honor chode to open us back up.

Buy all land around it, put a toll of $25 and keep riffraff out

You could clean up the area between Austin College and downtown

I travel for a living and when power all was above $500mm and saw the billboards everywhere, I really thought about it a lot as far as what I could do to fix our lower income areas.


My town isn’t as corrupt or racially divided as BR or NOLA but we also have primarily conservative leadership. I’m sure that would change if it flipped. We do have an “other side of the tracks” for sure but it’s a one high school town of 70kish so everybody goes to school together. I feel like it’s a pretty cohesive town despite high poverty in some areas.

My honest answer would be to go and build some sort of manufacturing company in the lower income part of town that I could break even on each year and then build out some daycare, transportation, and mid-level apartments/duplexes tied to employment in hope that people can get out of slums and hope to move upward to.

Don’t care about profiting off of it but the best way out of poverty is a job not handouts.

My hometown can go to hell for all I care. It doesn’t deserve my money and they’ll blow it on dumb bullshite.

Now as for Oxford, build a brewery and a beer garden. The town is pretty much perfect but lacks those two things and I’d make cash as well with it.

Good answer.
If I really had that kind of money I would think to put some large industry or job creating business in NBR, but as another poster said it would somehow be misconstrued as racist. So probably not worth it. But in reality that is the only way to better the area is to really affect the worst areas first.

I’m from ascension parish, but I’d buy up all the property along hwy 64 in north Baton Rouge. Maybe, 6 miles wide and about 25 miles along 64. I’d lay the civil foundation for 6 lane roads every mile parallel to 64 and grid out every mile perpendicular so you have a N-S E-W roads every mile. Lay all the gas lines, electricity, lights that are sensors instead of timed, piping and drainage.

An actual planned and functional suburb of Baton Rouge instead of the shitshow that is AP. I’d like to see a massive exodus out of BR and see the local government die and rebuild.

Lafayette

Bury utilities on Johnston street, make it a boulevard, and regulate signage.

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You could clean up the area between Austin College and downtown

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If I lived there I might. It pales in comparison to Tallulah though.