re: Thoughts from someone who left (escaped) Baton Rouge

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I get the feeling that a lot of posters on here are going to eventually be miserable no matter where they live.

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This is really well said. I have lived in a lot of places, and I can give a long list of negatives in each, and the list would be quite long for Baton Rouge..

but to spend a month somewhere and declare you know it all about the comparison is ludicrous. The grass is ALWAYS greener on the other side, especially in the first month.

I think the hard part is that louisianians are more hard wired to stay in Louisiana than most places in the country. I think I remember a study that said we had the highest percentage of people living within twenty miles of their birth of any state.

There is a lovable unity that comes from living here, whether that’s Katrina or love of LSU or just the Louisiana slow pace lifestyle. For me personally it was a little hard to push past the idea that there were other places to visit and other ways to live. It actually did kind of feel like an escape when I left because I felt like if I didn’t go when I did, I never would.

The Louisiana life is never anything I would hate on. It’s one of the most pleasurable, friendly relaxing ways to live this shade of Hawaii. The only problems with Baton Rouge really is an inability to provide or care for people who want differently than that- be that politics, music, food, schools or whatever.

I think the best cities allow for people to kind of live however they want.

BR will always be home for me even though I’m fairly sure it no longer serves the lifestyle I want to live.

Good point

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Damn dude, how old are you?

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Seventy-seven years young.
I'm old enough to compare then and now. I grew up in Franklin Parish in the fifties. I had an Aunt and cousins who lived on Convention street in Baton Rouge. My Cousin had a motor scooter that we rode all over Baton Rouge with no fear of anyone. Baton Rouge was a wonderful place to visit.
I think it was in the eighties, My two older sisters and I, one lived in BR for years, would drive down and attend an LSU function. We drove down Convention Street from curiosity. What a shock.
A person could starve waiting on service at almost any business that I visited. Slooooow! And don't care!
It was as if every business was ran by government employees.

So at this point almost everyone posting basically on a LSU/Louisiana board will be doing it out of state

Do they have a message board you could start posting on as well?

Nice racist rant


You think you’re gonna be the next rascal flats? Get a real job

Been in Nashville my entire life. Love it here. I love Louisiana, and visit my family often. But it's really not even close.

What part of town are you in where traffic is minimal, though??? Nashville traffic is fricking terrible.

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I'm in Hendersonville. Fortunately I go the opposite direction of traffic to/from work. But yeah the few times I've been in or through Nashville that traffic is no joke

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Yea, you got a nice deal there. I travel to and from Donelson to Brenwtwood for work. It's miserable. Wife and I will be selling this place in the next year or so and I'd like to go to Hendersonville. I may start working in West End soon and that drive wouldn't be so bad.