re: New CATS Routes Invading St. George

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You suppose you have overwhelming approval from the lot, and you don't. And no, I don't think they're hateful, but I do think what I said is true, and it's out of ignorance and being brought up here and never leaving it.

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...says the racist.

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bullshite. The city is nothing but low density and a shitload of prime real estate remains untapped and unpopulated in and around downtown as we speak. And it's not dangerous.

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You are right. There are no crime problems in Baton Rouge, and the school system is fantastic. The flight that you so frequently refer to is simply a reflection of irrational behavior.

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YOU do it by showing interest in it and fixing it back up, this reclaiming it from the abyss it's become because people lost interest in it. That it just happens to be an area of a city that should be the most valuable real estate in the city, or it is in most every other city on this planet. It can be here as well. We just have to get our heads out our own asses

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You can't do it. It's proven. That's the great thing about freedom and capitalism. If there was a likelihood of a positive outcome, many would invest. We know that's not happening. And, it's because people like you aren't fixing the issues that are preventing it.

On the other hand, you are seeing a real grass roots movement in St. George. People are doing exactly what you wished was being done in Baton Rouge. You are just on the wrong side of the fence.

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Hey, you know what? That's enough. I've more than explained myself and my words so that any rational adult that has a mature brain could clearly understand.

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...says the guy who called all St. George supporters racists.

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You apparently think you have some trump card here that makes up for your lack of firepower in your arguments, and it does not. you're becoming that little gnat now.

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Irony

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what's hilarious about that, is that in most places in this country it's the younger generations pushing to move back to the urban areas of their cities, but not here, apparently it's old farts like me that get the reasoning behind that, and younger people like you who are going in the opposite direction of the rest of the country. I'm fricked up?

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Young people typically are attracted to the city. When they have families, they look for space, green areas, and safety. I've never understood the hate for this natural progression.

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St. George loves its black residents.

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Gardere and St Jean says hello

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secondarily crime

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So, what insulates you from this crime in St. George?

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You are conflating suburban sprawl with the St. George incorporation effort.

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St. George IS suburban sprawl. What are you talking about? It's suburban neighborhood after suburban neighborhood trying to operate like a city, and it can't because it wasn't designed to be a city, but a grouping of suburban neighborhoods, which is how it came into existence.

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Young people typically are attracted to the city. When they have families, they look for space, green areas, and safety. I've never understood the hate for this natural progression.

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The great thing about freedom is you don't have to hate either.

The problem here is that the St. George area is holding up its end of the bargain for those who are looking for suburban living, but Baton Rouge is devolving into an unattractive option for the people who would naturally choose a more urban environment.

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I don't hate it. I just don't really see much of it here. Do you? Some, yes, but in numbers? I think the numbers lean very heavily toward going to the burbs by the young here once they graduate college.

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It's a reflection of Baton Rouge, dude.

It's not because people here are just different than everyone else in the world.

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St. George IS suburban sprawl. What are you talking about? It's suburban neighborhood after suburban neighborhood trying to operate like a city, and it can't because it wasn't designed to be a city, but a grouping of suburban neighborhoods, which is how it came into existence.

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That is meaningless. It already exists. If those people want to incorporate into a single city, they should be able to do so.

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That is meaningless. It already exists. If those people want to incorporate into a single city, they should be able to do so.

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So, for shits and giggles, where exactly would you say this city's downtown is?

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So, for shits and giggles, where exactly would you say this city's downtown is?

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who cares?