re: Tell me about Lake Charles, please.

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All the hoods are nice, I am not trying to say the houses suck, they dont, they are amazing.

The people buying them on the otherhand arent always the brightest so they indirectly cause a problem they dont know about because they are not as educated on the matters. Lake Charles has the highest concentration of these people as compared to any place I have ever lived.

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well yea...same with the burbs of south houston....when you have a lot of uneducated people making really good money, like as is in LC with operators in the plants..you will have that for sure.

you also have a large % in LC that give zero fricks. they want to work, be with the family and hunt/fish and could give zero fricks about real estate other than they live in nice house in nice area.

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I could deal with the pretentiousness if their road system wasn't absolutely insane and the most inefficient roadway I've ever seen. That's the one thing about Lake Charles that never gets discussed in these conversations is we have and almost perfect grid like roadway system until you get to the outer edges, in addition to two interstates.

The city and parish government are also pretty good about projecting future usage and preemptively trying to address corridors with traffic. Now that doesn't mean that certain roadways are immune to traffic because that's impossible, but I would be shocked if any other city is his Forward thinking in terms of dealing with future traffic

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agree with this for sure. and if you think LC has flooding...jesus the burbs of lafayette are terrible about that.

another good thing is LC has plenty of room to grow...just will be towards the SE instead of SW like before.

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I could deal with the pretentiousness if their road system wasn't absolutely insane and the most inefficient roadway I've ever seen. That's the one thing about Lake Charles that never gets discussed in these conversations is we have and almost perfect grid like roadway system until you get to the outer edges, in addition to two interstates.

The city and parish government are also pretty good about projecting future usage and preemptively trying to address corridors with traffic. Now that doesn't mean that certain roadways are immune to traffic because that's impossible, but I would be shocked if any other city is his Forward thinking in terms of dealing with future traffic

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It makes sense though, its the most "me me me" city in the country as well.

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I really thought SE LC would be have grown more than it has the last few years

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lack of quality schools in the area hurts

I believe so. And W-M I'd imagine.

The problem with SELA is that the worst area in LC history has developed out there. If they could ever make a small HS out for the Bell City/South Iowa area the population would explode.

Stout explained to me a few years ago about why Iowa is growing, and it's basically the new Moss Bluff.

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why Iowa is growing

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corn and beef is king, baw

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The people buying them on the otherhand arent always the brightest so they indirectly cause a problem they dont know about because they are not as educated on the matters. Lake Charles has the highest concentration of these people as compared to any place I have ever lived.

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My wife and I lived in LC for 5 years and then moved back to BR after Laura. It took us a VERY long time to make friends over there because we were immediately judged as snooty just because we were from BR.

We did eventually make some good friends from there, but I was a little put off by how judgmental most people were initially. It was very common for both my wife and I to get a response like "Ya ain't from around here are you?" when meeting new people. It made us feel like this region of people is very close minded.

As far as place to raise a family, it's not bad, but it's sure not great. Has some perks as others have mentioned with schools, but the food scene is subpar IMO and there is not a ton of activities to do with a young family.

The youth sports scene is pretty legit from what I hear. I have not been to a baseball tournament over there, but from what I hear it is very well run.

Spent a year in Sulphur and then bought a house in Holmwood. We did enjoy Holmwood, but it was further away from things then I'd prefer.

Yeah I would imagine Holmwood is a lot more laid back and probably more pleasant people than Sulphur.

Just wanted to add another good school for pre-K to 8th grade is St.Margaret's Catholic school. On Enterprise Blvd. Not far from Lake Charles Memorial, where I work. Several of my coworkers send their children there.

I went there. It is not as big as ICCS, OLQH, so class sizes are smaller, which is a positive to me. Students score high on testing. Parents are very involved in the school.