re: Please help recommend areas of Shreveport for my daughter to live

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My FiL lives in Broadmoor between Youree and E Kings. I’ve never felt unsafe there.

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best answer you will get. Homes are older but area is safe and extremely convenient.

Broadmoor is going to be more affordable, just a solid neighborhood with plenty of houses, can't go wrong. More interesting and closer to the school is South Highlands, but by and large is gonna be more expensive. In South Highlands you would want to stay on the east side of Fairfield, at least until you get South of Betty Virginia, then there is a solid number of blocks South of Ockley all the way down to Southfield School on the west side of Fairfield.

South Highlands and Broadmoor both good proximity and very safe - don't have to worry about violent crime, and you not much property crime either. Any violent crime in either of those neighborhoods is going to be domestic violence, and even still not much of it in there. No drug crime. Plenty of good neighbors that look out for each other.

If PA school is even remotely like med school and residency, there not being close to the school is going to get old really quickly.

Recently drove through there on I20, I've never seen interstate lanes narrowed down that much for construction. Barely enough room for a regular sized car to pass. That's all I got.

Dallas.

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I lived near Cypress Lake for 13 years. Its kind of an oasis in the area.

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It use to be, my parents lived on cypress for about 20 years and it use to be nice quiet and rural. Now it is overgrown and a traffic nightmare, the town of Benton has not grown any, doesn't have any restaurants, you have to drive into north bossier to eat at one of the 6 Mexican restaurants or silver star (not complaining), they built the new school and it opened at max capacity, Benton is not the oasis it once was except for being safe.

I've got a brother in Stonewall and it's nice. I realize that's outside Shreveport, but realistically it's a 15 min drive. Seems like an area that doesn't tolerate too much of THEIR stuff.

The crime in Shreveport is over done on this board. It's not nearly as bad as people on here make it and it's normally people that live in BR, New Orleans, and Opelousas doing it. As far as N LA crime goes, Monroe and West Monroe are actually worse than Shreveport.

Salmon had a pretty good suggestion...

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Most PA/ med school students rent houses in South Highlands or Broadmoor. It’s safe. Crime will leak out every now and then like any City in the South, but she will be fine.

It’s a beautiful neighborhood near the hospital and close to anything she would need.

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She's not going to have any problems there and it will be convenient. I live in Bossier and like Bossier 10x better than Shreveport but she would absolutely despise the drive she's have to make every day with I-20 construction.

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Seems asinine they’re completely reconstructing I-20 through Bossier but not making it 6 lanes.

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seems like that project has gone on longer than the big dig in Boston did

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People who say avoid bossier or Houghton because if construction are short-sighted sissies.

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She's not buying a house. She's going to PA school...