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Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:32 am to upgrayedd
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Hmmmmmm.....I wonder what the common denominator is here....
They are both in Louisiana. You can make it about race but you can’t ignore that they just happen to be in a state that consistently ranks bottom 3 in just about every positive attribute.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:34 am to Boo Krewe
And Shreveport has better hunting, better breweries, and much better roads and traffic. Anything else I should add?
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:36 am to cubsfan5150
These cities need to get more serious about crime if they want to keep those tax dollars in their city limits. I saw the writing on the wall about 10 years ago and jumped the bridge to Bossier. Boring, sure, but I’ll take boring and a better public school system than dangerous with more excitement.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:38 am to Triple Bogey
Unfortunately, the electorate in these cities seem to want more crime, less enforcement, and to let murderers, rapists, and armed robbers back out on the streets at every possible opportunity.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:39 am to kingbob
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I mean, if two places equally suck, but one is closer to places that suck less, would that not be a convincing tie-breaker?
Yeah, if the question was “which shithole is easier to escape for a day/week.”
If you have to choose between the two to live and a big selling point is proximity to NOLA and beaches, then sure, BR is your place. But you can’t really use that when directly comparing the cities, and definitely when you say “in a vacuum” like he did.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:40 am to Boo Krewe
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Baton rouge has a better food scene , parks , sports, music , books, ethnic food ,
I’ll give you sports.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:45 am to kingbob
Brewery? Wat
Tom roof gilla
Tom roof gilla
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:45 am to Triple Bogey
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These cities need to get more serious about crime if they want to keep those tax dollars in their city limits. I saw the writing on the wall about 10 years ago and jumped the bridge to Bossier. Boring, sure, but I’ll take boring and a better public school system than dangerous with more excitement.
Middle class families have been leaving BR for Ascension, Livingston, Central, Zachary etc for the last 30 years. Most of SBR is still pretty nice but you'll have to go the magnet or private school route if you want to stay in the city.
The burbs have good schools though. 4 of the top 10 school districts in the state are in the BR suburbs.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:49 am to Boo Krewe
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Brewery? Wat
Tom roof gilla
Tin Roof is mediocre at best.
Rally Cap is okay
Southern Craft is the worst craft brewery I have ever experienced.
Great Raft is better than all of the above.
Gilla is awesome, but they’re still tiny and way out in Gonzales, so I wouldn’t count them as a BR brewery.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:49 am to cubsfan5150
BR real estate is booming so I don't see how it's shrinking.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:50 am to terriblegreen
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BR real estate is booming so I don't see how it's shrinking.
The metro isn't but the population in the city limits is declining. This excludes the St George area of course.
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:50 am to TH03
quote:also based on the cities themselves
Yeah, based on proximity to actually fun places.
When you factor proximity to other places it isn’t even close
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:54 am to kingbob
Great raft is the one with the rocking chair ? I love that one
This post was edited on 8/11/20 at 11:57 am
Posted on 8/11/20 at 11:55 am to yaboidarrell
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It'd be more interesting to see which metro areas were shrinking. BR metro probably wouldn't be so high as LP and Ascension are still growing. Shreveport metro probably wouldn't change much.
Of Metro areas with greater than 500,000 from 2010-2019 the following metro areas had negative population growth:
- Youngstown, OH
- Syracuse, NY
- Scranton, PA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Toledo, OH
- Cleveland, OH
- Rochester, NY
- New HAven, CT
- Buffalo, NY
- Hartford, CT
- Chicago, IL
Baton Rouge = +3.50%
New Orleans = +6.75%
Posted on 8/11/20 at 12:07 pm to fallguy_1978
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My wife told me about a month ago that as long as our parents are living she'd go wherever I want but only within an 8-9 hr drive of BR and Birmingham
My wife was the same way, but I told her she can catch a direct flight and not have to drive at all if we move to Colorado.
She has since been looking at houses.
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