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re: What is BR lacking that other cities have?

Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:29 pm to
Posted by GreenRockTiger
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Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:29 pm to
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Being walkable.
I was going to post this - I totally agree
Posted by glassman
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Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:31 pm to
Yep.
ETA: A movie theater is a 180 second walk.
This post was edited on 4/6/26 at 5:34 pm
Posted by Ramblin Wreck
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:33 pm to
I moved away from Baton Rouge and the gulf coast region this year. I was super excited when I washed my cars last weekend and didn’t have a single bug embedded into the paint on the front of the cars. I’m not use to washing my cars without having to spend an hour scraping with my fingernails and bug remover. So I’ll keep it simple and say the ability to drive your cars without washing bugs off of them every day.
Posted by GreenRockTiger
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Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:34 pm to
Plus BR is missing this:
quote:

great Spanish restaurant, a French bistro, a cheese shop/restaurant, a Venezuelan restaurant, a soon to be renovated Upperline restaurant by a James Beard award winner.


And if any of those decided to open - if there are no TVs or dollar margarita nights - the restaurant won’t last a year
Posted by soccerfüt
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Member since May 2013
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Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:36 pm to
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All within a 90 second walk.
You walk faster than me.

I’ve got a parallel portfolio of walkable venues but mine are within about 7-9 minutes.

Within 90 seconds only four restaurants, a good bar and a dive bar
This post was edited on 4/6/26 at 5:37 pm
Posted by Everyday Is Saturday
Member since Dec 2025
1291 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:40 pm to
Drove over BR bridge into BR in day time for 1st time in long time. Bridge railings missing as far east as bridges go and color as if Mt Vesuvius coughed up ash for decades, concrete walls look like care went to slow extinction.

All to say, for a state capitol, it’s looks scream that time has passed it by and its leaders lead like the city looks.
Posted by Hamma1122
Member since Sep 2016
22286 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:43 pm to
They have a traffic issue that’s on another level
Posted by LPgolfer
Member since Jul 2015
1065 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:44 pm to
Tolls?
Posted by glassman
Next to the beer taps at Finn's
Member since Oct 2008
118198 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:44 pm to
I walk very fast. Everything I listed besides the movie theater is within two blocks.
This post was edited on 4/6/26 at 5:46 pm
Posted by spslayto
Member since Feb 2004
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Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:45 pm to
Infrastructure
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
60448 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:45 pm to
quote:

the movie theater
oooh - I’m going to TP your house when I go to NOLA next week (jk)
Posted by glassman
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Member since Oct 2008
118198 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:46 pm to
Bring it!
Posted by Eightballjacket
Member since Jan 2016
8021 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:46 pm to
A better road system.
Posted by GreenRockTiger
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Member since Jun 2020
60448 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:48 pm to
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Bring it!
lol I wouldn’t

I might put a tent in your front yard - if you have one
Posted by glassman
Next to the beer taps at Finn's
Member since Oct 2008
118198 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:50 pm to
Ha.
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
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Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:51 pm to
The house I grew up in in mid city did not have a front yard lol
Posted by nealnan8
Atlanta
Member since Oct 2016
4651 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:54 pm to
An alley that's not cancerous.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
89538 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 5:58 pm to
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Clean air


Sort of true.

Atlanta has more care pollution and pollen. It was hard for me to breath in Atlanta.


Any city larger than BR will have more car pollution. And with wildfires out west, we actually average more clean days than San Francisco even though we have more concentrated heavy industry.

Posted by Barrister
Member since Jul 2012
5290 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 6:02 pm to
An active Downtown
Posted by TTB
LA to L.A.
Member since Nov 2006
3291 posts
Posted on 4/6/26 at 6:05 pm to
quote:

Desirability


First thing that popped into my mind. It doesn’t really have anything for anyone who wasn’t born and raised there to want to be there.
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