re: Need some help on where to live in Baton Rouge

Any street named after a state or a president is a safe bet. You can trust us.

What reasons would necessitate a commute in your mind? It’s not like OLOL is in a crime-infested neighborhood.

What is your price point and I’ll give you honest feedback?

I'll have about $2500/month to spend on housing. Also I'm only gonna be there 26 weeks.

For 6 months, I would just go get a condo or townhouse off perkins by Pennington biomedical center.

Keep job searching.

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I have no children. I'm moving there by myself.

I don't mind commuting up to an hour.

I work 7p-7a.

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What's your mortgage/rent level? Kennilworth might be a solid option for you if you are making good enough money.

If you go farther out you should look to the east along 12 (like Fairview Estates, for example) or south along 10 (Prairieville) as you'll be going contrary to traffic at those hours. The problem is though, if your hours flip you'll be in a tough situation the farther out you go.


***EDIT*** This was posted while I was writing my post and it changes a lot of things.

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I'll have about $2500/month to spend on housing. Also I'm only gonna be there 26 weeks.

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In that case, there are apartments just west of the hospital on Perkins. The District. I think a 2BR runs something like $1,600-$1,800/mo.

My contracts are 13 weeks long. I apologize for offending your delicate sense of time grouping.

Essen traffic is nothing like it used to be after they widened it.

It can still be bad in the evenings between I-10 and Jefferson (mostly due to construction on Jefferson which has reduced it from 5 to 2 lanes), but the stretch between I-10 and Perkins is like night and day better from what it used to be.