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re: What Louisiana Cities are shells of themselves?
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:14 pm to EZE Tiger Fan
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:14 pm to EZE Tiger Fan
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Now BR, and NOLA
Most of South BR is still pretty nice but it was better in the 80s. The economy was rocking and crime was pretty isolated to a few areas that were easily avoidable.
The damn homeless people are out of control. This is a fairly recent phenomenon too.
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Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:14 pm to MikeD
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Cheap rent and Sec 8 housing allowed for poor folks to move in
Section 8 is destroying the fabric of communities
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:16 pm to cypresstiger
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cypresstiger
What kind of money did New Orleans have in Cuba?
—bananas
Nope. That was Central America
Cuba was sugar and other things
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:18 pm to choupiquesushi
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Section 8 is destroying the fabric of communities
Yep. Wasn't it Obama that passed a law to develop more section 8 in the suburbs? I'm pretty sure they just built a big development just over the parish line in Ascension.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:21 pm to redstick13
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Pick any of the small towns along Highway 90.
Or Hwy 65 in north LA
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:21 pm to samson73103
Nola was once the largest most vibrant city in the south...
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:22 pm to choupiquesushi
Or pick any town more than an hour from an interstate
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:24 pm to Manlaw35
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Ruston is thriving though and the surrounding cities around Shreveport and Monroe are also thriving, i.e. Sterlington, Calhoun, Benton.
No one is thriving in Louisiana relative to the rest of the country.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:26 pm to Grindlewald
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Also, what happened?
Dimocrats
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:28 pm to Grindlewald
Just say Louisiana.
This state has been on the downslope since the late 50s. Accelerated in the 80s and is an express train now.
I pray my kids get the frick out of this place.
This state has been on the downslope since the late 50s. Accelerated in the 80s and is an express train now.
I pray my kids get the frick out of this place.
This post was edited on 1/26/20 at 1:06 pm
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:31 pm to HerkFlyer
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remember the Delphi plant closure at the 124 exit on I-20 being a big deal, as was the big state farm office just to the west at the intersection of I-20 and 165.
A State Farm official was actually quoted as saying they pulled out of Monroe, in part, due to a lack of "intellectual capital" That had to sting
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:31 pm to samson73103
quote:I was going to ask, what does "thriving" look like in Ruston?
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Ruston is thriving though and the surrounding cities around Shreveport and Monroe are also thriving, i.e. Sterlington, Calhoun, Benton.
No one is thriving in Louisiana relative to the rest of the country.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:33 pm to CunningLinguist
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Slidell
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Now is a the heroin-infused modern day Chalmette
Don't forget the crack and meth. No description of Slidell is complete if you leave out the crack and meth.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:42 pm to Grindlewald
Ferriday, Newellton, Bunkie....
All towns, but all shells.
All towns, but all shells.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:49 pm to fallguy_1978
I used to work in BR. That's the only time I go into that city unless it's medical. The whole place has gone to shite. The crime is just stupid and the schools are worse. And law enforcement is a total joke.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:51 pm to Grindlewald
A lot of smaller agricultural towns are hollowed out with no prospects of recovery.
The larger ones seem to have survived.
The larger ones seem to have survived.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 1:11 pm to EZE Tiger Fan
Downtown Lafayette is better than it has been in decades. The city has been stagnant but it’s still far more livable than 99% of the state.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 2:17 pm to samson73103
Yes, State Farm did tell Monroe that part of its decision to close the regional office there was due to the available work force not being trainable. Monroe took a hit in the early 70s when government regulation resulted in the shutdown of what was then thought to be one of the largest gas fields in the country. The place has turned into a giant hood and nicknamed "gun row". Place is trashy. Standing leadership there sure as hell didn't help matters. A lot of white flight went towards Calhoun. Some of us just moved the hell out of NE LA.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 6:13 pm to jimmy the leg
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I am afraid that this is the future for St. Tammany. The eastern side is already being transformed by this. Brister and company seemed to be targeting the western side at the end of her tenure. Hopefully the new leadership (both at the parish AND municipal level) will recognize how quickly things can head south if this continues. In short, they need to do something to stop (limit) it imho.
FWIW - I love living in Covington and feel that the city is currently better off in some aspects as compared to my childhood.
I am a lifelong resident of STP and its really tragic what has happened. Katrina triggered an invasion the likes of which the Parish was not equipped to handle from an infrastructure standpoint, and opportunistic developers took advantage of antiquated land use ordinances and a combination of either incompetent or complicit elected leaders.The result is that traffic is a nightmare and the parish is now overrun with "affordable housing" and everything that comes with it - traffic crime, Dollar Generals, Chalmations, etc.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 7:40 pm to notiger1997
NOLA bottomed out in the late 80s / early 90s. After that it had nowhere to go but up.
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