re: Lafayette…Best place to live in Louisiana

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So they can build a bunch more shitty DR Horton/DSLD subdivisions? So we can have a more rootless, deracinated population with no connection to the place? So we can have more traffic? So we can have more foreigners?

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So you'd rather people leave to make it quieter...and take their jobs and tax revenue with them? Or do you want it to just always stay the same from this point forward (which is virtually impossible, noting that the metro area has grown by 116% since 2000)?

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More like 4 small towns, if including Abita Springs, that combine into a small metroplex.

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Right, and the ranking was for mid-sized cities and up (100k+ population).

If you want to live in an actual city, and raise a family there's really not much competition in Louisiana, especially when one of the main factors in the ranking was crime

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and where is better?

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Shreveport by a mile.

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Doesn't dictate but it plays a factor.

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Barbe seems to be better option compared to Lafayette high and Southside when you look at who sends their kids to catholic schools in the two cities.

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What if Lafayette is simply more catholic influenced than LC? That’s why more people send kids to catholic schools. Not to mention Lafayette has always been a more populous area and a higher income area. LC has much more Protestant and middle class influence than Lafayette

Don’t you live in Baton Rouge?

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There are a group of builders in Lafayette that actively work together to keep DR Horton and DSLD out. It’s why you don’t see these many of these homes in the area.

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And they also build cookie cutter bullshite houses for 25% more than DSLD.

Say what ya want about DR Horton but thanks to DSLD I got a decent house for a decent price when everything else was out of my range.

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Don’t you live in Baton Rouge?

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Yep, vastly better than living in Lafayette, in my opinion.

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Yep, vastly better than living in Lafayette, in my opinion.

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Oh bullshite. Without LSU, Baton Rouge is a Shreveport Jackson hybrid. Just another ran down southern city with bad demographics. There’s only so many college sporting events one can do.

Baton Rouge has slightly more options for fine dining. Besides that and college sports I can’t imagine there is another single plus Br has over Lafayette.