re: What is up with BR area rich kids going to school at U of Alabama?

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A city with a Metro population of around 800k has some bad parts? NO frickING WAY!!!

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The problem is how much bad shite is adjacent to the university.

Tigerland has section 8 housing and murders.
North of Aster is a warzone with nearly half a dozen murders in the last 6 months.
The college drive area gets super sketchy at night with fights and shootings outside of I-hop and Walmart with frequency.
Gardere is close to campus as well.
North Baton Rouge has a higher murder rate than Kabul, Afghanistan.
To top it all off, Baton Rouge has one of the most incompetent and corrupt police forces in the country and the worst traffic for a city its size in America.

So yeah, Baton Rouge is kinda shitty, but so is Tuscaloosa.

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The fact that people have to "commute" to school, says a lot to me about what I'm talking about.

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In fairness commuting to CS from Bryan is like commuting to LSU from Port Allen.

I live outside the Tuscaloosa city limits, in a subdivision on the river. I commute 20 minutes into the city every day. Are you telling me everything I've said in this thread is invalid?

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ardere is close to campus as wel

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Its not close to campus

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he college drive area gets super sketchy at night with fights and shootings outside of I-hop and Walmart with frequency

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This is bullshite. Frequency? Gtfo

Have you ever gone there at night? There's multiple cop cars in the parking lot of I-Hop every night for a reason.

Also, 5 minutes down Burbank from campus is pretty damn close. When it was built, it was designed as cheap housing for students before the Section 8 came in and took it over.

Yeah I really regret staying in BR to go to LSU because of the I-Hop on college.

I live two minutes down the road. I walked from Bennington to the bulldog the other night at 11pm and had no problem.

Yea IHOP has detail cops there on weekend nights. 1 of them

You're exaggerating the hell out of shite to make your point

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a decent number of kids who attend either Dunham, U-High, or Episcopal who are going to Alabama. I am friends with a wealthy guy who has sent all 3 of his kids to Alabama.

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if you're going to drop that kind of coin on high school why would you want to send them to LSU?

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Has been happening in the rich Old Metairie/Uptown New Orleans areas for years.

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This +1000000

Lots of NO area people go to UAT too, it's a combination of things.

Some look down on who goes to LSU. Some want to get out of state. Others have no loyalty and want to jump on the bama bandwagon. Football is big in LA so it makes sense for sell outs to go to a school with a good program if they are turning their backs on their home state. Gump U is the cool, trendy place to go (all myth, that town is a shithole with a cocaine problem). Some think bama today is what LSU was 30-40 years ago as far as campus/greek/night life goes.

Ole Miss - still pretty popular for the "want to get away" crowd because obviously they don't have enough success to jump on a bandwagon.

UGA - too far from NO/BR and most can't get in anyway. Best college town though.

Auburn - no idea why it's little brother to bama for the LA ex pats

A&M - Hard to leave places like BR and NO known for loose lifestyles and go to nerd boot camp.

State - yeah, no

UF - very far, cool town

Ark - lulz

Mizzou - no

Vandy - the people who can get in Vandy, fit at Vandy

Tenn - very far

Kentucky - football fans with pride don't go here.