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re: Most depressing small town?

Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:37 pm to
Posted by TCO
Member since Jul 2022
2612 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:37 pm to
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Bogalousa


Houma is catching up. Drove through there last week. What a shithole.
Posted by tigerfan84
Member since Dec 2003
20544 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:43 pm to
Bogalusa
Ferriday
Colfax
Jonesville
This post was edited on 2/9/24 at 8:52 pm
Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
Member since Jul 2006
204230 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:51 pm to
Never been, but have heard some crazy stories about Bessemer Alabama.
Posted by Bamarap
Hoover
Member since Oct 2015
238 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:55 pm to
Camden, Alabama. Wilcox county.
Posted by skuter
P'ville
Member since Jan 2005
6144 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:56 pm to
Baton Rouge

It’s a shell of the town I grew up in
This post was edited on 2/9/24 at 8:59 pm
Posted by FLTech
the A
Member since Sep 2017
13346 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:57 pm to
Mobile, Alabama

That place was awful.
Posted by spaghettioeauxs
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2017
1217 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 8:59 pm to
Greenville, MS is the answer. Terrible city
Posted by duckblind56
South of Ellick
Member since Sep 2023
1398 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 9:08 pm to
McNary, LA. Nothing left but a couple speed trap cops.
Posted by F1y0n7h3W4LL
Below I-10
Member since Jul 2019
1626 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 9:09 pm to
Chenneyville.
Posted by samson73103
Krypton
Member since Nov 2008
8257 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 9:31 pm to
Ferriday
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
30613 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 9:35 pm to
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Most depressing
Bastrop for me. My mom grew up there. My dad has family there. Everyone I knew there worked for IP. My mom's dad worked there. The first people hired at the mill in Natchez moved there from Bastrop. My my dad and my mom's sister's husband worked at the Natchez mill. We visited our relatives in Bastrop a bunch when I was a kid. It was a nice town, with an active courthouse square/downtown area and great public parks and swimming pools. My aunt had a sewing store there for years.

After they shut down both mills, it's kind of a ghost town, except for Simmons Sporting Goods.


https://www.city-data.com/poverty/poverty-Bastrop-Louisiana.html

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Poverty rates in Bastrop:

LA Residents with income below the poverty level in 2022: Bastrop: 46.9% Whole state: 18.6%

Residents with income below 50% of the poverty level in 2022: Bastrop: 16.2% Whole state: 8.5%

Poverty rate among disabled residents: Bastrop: 51.3% Louisiana: 25.0%

Disability rate in this city among poor residents (it is 11.7% among residents who are not classified as poor): Bastrop: 14.0% Louisiana: 22.6%

Renting rate in this city among poor and not poor residents: Residents below poverty level: 78.0% Residents above poverty level: 24.0% ...



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Poverty in families in Bastrop:

LA Children below poverty level: Bastrop, Louisiana: 57.4% State: 24.4%

Poverty rate among high school graduates: Bastrop: 34.6% Louisiana: 13.1%

Poverty rate among people who did not graduate high school: Bastrop: 60.9% Louisiana: 33.4% ...



Saddest info from the link has to do with Bastrop's future:

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Breakdown by age of poor male residents in Bastrop,LA (percentage below poverty level)

Under 5 years: 76.9%

5 years: 46.3%

6 to 11 years: 55.5%

12 to 14 years: 70.5%

15 years: 67.6%

16 and 17 years: 67.1%

18 to 24 years: 34.9%

25 to 34 years: 41.6%

35 to 44 years: 44.9%

45 to 54 years: 25.1%

55 to 64 years: 35.8%

65 to 74 years: 32.1%

75 years and over: 18.0%













This post was edited on 2/9/24 at 10:09 pm
Posted by bountyhunter
North of Houston a bit
Member since Mar 2012
6364 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 9:44 pm to
quote:

Bogalusa

That town looks like shite and smells like it too.
Posted by F1y0n7h3W4LL
Below I-10
Member since Jul 2019
1626 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 9:58 pm to
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Woodville, Ms

I had not driven through there in years, so last week, just for shits and giggles, I turned and went through old Woodville. It was bad back 20 years ago, but that poor town is so sad now.

It looks like it died and somebody forgot to bury it.
Posted by TheFitfulFire
Houma
Member since Jan 2017
145 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 10:01 pm to
Someone's mad about it, but it's the damned truth.
Posted by Bryno1960
Off River Road
Member since Aug 2013
2564 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 10:05 pm to
quote:

Ferriday, Vidalia, Colfax


That stretch of 425 between Natchez and Rayville is nothing but one depressing town after another.
Posted by Hawgeye
tFlagship Brothel
Member since Jun 2009
31106 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 10:09 pm to
quote:

In your travels, or maybe your hometown, what is the most depressing small town you’ve seen? Where it’s pretty much dead, nothing is happening, and it’s becoming more run down every year?


Picher, OK

Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, northeastern Oklahoma, United States. It was a major national center of lead and zinc mining for more than 100 years in the heart of the Tri-State Mining District.

The city's post office was scheduled to close in July 2009, and the city ceased operations as a municipality on September 1, 2009.[19] By June 29, 2009, all of the residents had been given federal checks to enable them to relocate from Picher permanently. The city is considered to be too toxic to be habitable. On the last day, all the final residents met at the school auditorium to say goodbye.[20] As of November 2010, it was reported that Picher still had "one business and six occupied houses.

Picher, OK
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
30613 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 10:18 pm to
quote:

That stretch of 425 between Natchez and Rayville is nothing but one depressing town after another.
A kid from Wisner had his commitment announcement to Alabama Football at a cemetery where a kid he grew up with was buried.

Posted by BayouBengel07
Louisiana
Member since Sep 2006
319 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 10:22 pm to
Jonesville, LA
Sicily Island, LA
Ferriday, LA
Posted by doublecutter
Hear & Their
Member since Oct 2003
6617 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 10:25 pm to
Has West Memphis been mentioned yet?
Posted by Breauxfessor
Ferriday
Member since Sep 2016
827 posts
Posted on 2/9/24 at 10:28 pm to
quote:

They got a chic fi la last month. It's already the worst one in the state.

Can’t be worse than the one at MSY. That labor pool can frick up a wet dream.
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