re: Is New Roads a decent place to live?

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If your paw-paw is well known, you'll do well in NR.

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LOL, so true, but probably true of most small towns. NRs does have its share of “blue bloods”

Since this turned into an Opelousas thread from the jump somehow, I work here, it's bad. But it's not the pinnacle of thugness/trash. Maybe the "city" version though with 20k people. Thing is if you go right outside the city in either direction it's not too bad. (Eunice is decent I know I'm going to get flamed for that, Cankton, Leonville, Arnauldville (decennt brewery), Washington, Sunset, etc)

Yea the area is nothing special obviously but there is some special culture.

As for New Rhodes, my grandpa is from there. It's okay and not so bad as well. False river is great and you have a nice little lake town with some cool history, right outside of BR.

If you notice in this thread the only real negatives being mentioned are having to drive to the city, BR, for most of what you need, which is the way it is in every small town in America, and that the schools suck. It's also mentioned a lot that housing is cheaper and property taxes are cheaper than neighboring towns like st. Francisville and Zachary, but those towns have excellent schools. You can't have it both ways. Either you pay cheap property taxes and keep shitty schools, or you pay up like neighboring towns and have better schools. Granted, we've had a less than stellar school board in the past, to put it mildly, but most of all of the board members have been voted out and I'm trying to be optimistic that the current administration turns things around. The hurdle is that the school board has sucked for so long that the residents are super hesitant to vote for an increase in property taxes, which I believe is the same millage it's been since 1978. Our property values would increase if we invested in better schools but there's so much old family land here that'll never be sold that most don't care if their property values increase because they'll never sell their property anyway.

outside of clothing, sporting goods, and maybe a movie theater what do you need that you can't get in NR? Its got enough retailers to get what you need in most situations. If you need a suit or a set of golf clubs, yeah, you gotta go to BR. But it aint like you're on an island where you have no resources.

Besides, people act like driving to BR is going cross country by oxcart. Its just not that big of a deal. Especially if you work there on weekdays. you get the things you need from BR while in BR. The rest you get at local retailers. Sheeze.

Main thing we drive to br for is medical visits. My son sees 3 specialist that aren't found in NR. Also the occasional Sam's or Costco trip but that's only like once a month. And yes, driving to br can feel like driving cross country. Lol. Sometimes I feel like I could've driven to Houston by the time I make it to bluebonnet when the bridge is backed up. Lol

I take the old bridge a lot. I've learned to GPS my trip as I'm leaving the house to see which bridge to take.

I just cross the bridge here and take 61 to BR. A couple miles longer, but less traffic.

The STEM school in PC is the greatest thing they’ve gotten and it’s their crown jewel school now. They even got a lotto system in place now to admit kids.

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Would like to see a Home Depot here



Fontaine Lumber is better than HD. You gotta pay for service and quality.

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Fontaine has good stuff and the service is great. Problem is for those that have camps (or houses they use as camps) and are only out there during the weekends, the weekend hours aren’t good when you have needs come up.

We definitely have to plan ahead on projects