re: New Roads - decent place to live?

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You’ll be seen as an outsider unless you’ve lived there your whole life.

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Again, that’s true for almost any place in Louisiana. Whether they’ll admit it or not. It’s a thing.

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You’ll be seen as an outsider unless you’ve lived there your whole life.

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This is true.....I've never personally lived there but my dad was born and raised there, and I grew up visiting there on weekends and holidays, and we still still have very deep roots that still live there....

I grew up there. I liked it, and would probably move back if I could afford a place on the lake. might move back one day when I can, and when my kids get out of school. A place on the lake would be the only way I'd consider moving back though. work was a deciding factor in leaving. of course now, lots of people work from home, etc. and residence location isn't a problem. It's a nice town.

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Again, that’s true for almost any place in Louisiana. Whether they’ll admit it or not. It’s a thing.

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I’ve lived multiple places in louisiana. It is not the same.

Went to high school in new roads and lived in one of the new roads suburbs (?). I can definitely see the appeal to the town. Just enough restaurants and bars to stay interested. Lots of hunting and fishing near and surprising number of good looking girls. I don’t see it as clickish as some on here say. You can make friends pretty easily if you put out any effort (but then again I am from there).

I never moved back mostly because I think I out grew it and work in Baton Rouge.

We had a camp my entire life on False River . Dad wanted to retire out there .
Built a nice house on the river by the court house . Just sold it.
They enjoyed their time there for years. When they got older Dr. appts were too far away , house was too much to keep up.
Only negatives I can think of are it’s a certain type of people who live there. Very cliquish , nosy small town type stuff.
Crime was getting worse . The getto is just across the tracks. Big houses on the river are an easy mark.
It will cost you a fortune to buy on the river . Legit OT baller to pull that off.

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New Roads

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Nope

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but had to change so they could keep selling fried chicken).

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Not many folks know that story.

If you don’t have a “New Roads last name”, good luck……..


Also, the women drink wayyyy more than the men. lol

Bumping this old thread.

Just went to a festival downtown & downtown seems nice. It seems kept up and everyone was friendly.

We drove back through the “hood” and it was rougher than I remembered. The area near the elementary is really poorly kept up