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Posted on 7/17/21 at 9:32 am to bdavids09
Lagos
Port au Prince
Port au Prince
Posted on 7/17/21 at 9:42 am to LSU Coyote
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received this image from my future self.
Like that but combined with New Vegas BC of the casinos.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 10:40 am to Teddy Ruxpin
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Baton Rouge wishes it ever had a moment in time like Detroit.
It is amusing when Detroit is used as a poster city of a warning to the potential ill fate of cities like BR, Jackson, Montgomery, etc.
It has a metro population of 5.3 million. Roughly the same as DFW, Houston, and Atlanta.
Detroit is one of THE great sport cities in a America, and yes, I do put significant cultural value on that.
Though I have never personally verified, supposedly Detroit has some of the best suburbs in the country.
Incredible downtown architecture spearheaded by the revitalization efforts of the Ilitch family.
Thriving Windsor, Canada across the river.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 10:44 am to bdavids09
Cameroon
Posted on 7/17/21 at 10:46 am to Teddy Ruxpin
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Baton Rouge wishes it ever had a moment in time like Detroit.
It was never a as huge as Detroit, but it also never saw rapid decline like Detroit or St Louis.
Although Baton Rouge was growing like crazy until about 1990. Then it became somewhat stagnant while the rest of the metro area exploded from about 500,000 to 850,000.
I think all the growth will be in the suburbs for the next 20 years too. America really fricked up by letting the progressive marxists take over a major political party.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 10:52 am to frequent flyer
I agree. The metro will still be populated due to LSU, the river, state government etc but more people will leave the city and EBRP.
It'll be like Jackson or Montgomery if you dropped Miss State or Auburn's campus a few miles from downtown. It kind of already is like that I guess which is sad because this wasn't always the case.
It'll be like Jackson or Montgomery if you dropped Miss State or Auburn's campus a few miles from downtown. It kind of already is like that I guess which is sad because this wasn't always the case.
This post was edited on 7/17/21 at 11:02 am
Posted on 7/17/21 at 10:56 am to bdavids09
It’s amazing to me how fast a city can deteriorate with the wrong, hard headed, out of touch leadership. Austin, TX used to be one of the greatest, safest places to live. In just 3 years it’s going to compete shite in and around the downtown area with homeless people and crime.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 11:02 am to fallguy_1978
Once a Democratic Mayor is voted in, where BR has similar demographics as Orleans Parish the city will never revert back. Sadly, BR will never recuperate from what it was in the 80’s.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 11:04 am to bdavids09
Have you been to the South side of Chicago?
Posted on 7/17/21 at 11:04 am to Breauxsif
I think BR was still a pretty decent town until the late 90s/early 00s but it's been on a steady decline since then. But yeah it probably peaked in the 80s.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 11:07 am to Breauxsif
Yup. BR was great in the 80’s. Now I have no desire to even go there. Unless to my doctor who is in a relatively safe place… I mean come on they have young thugs carjackings at the two major hospitals in town… screw BR… I love my LSU football but you couldn’t pay me to go to a game there…..
Posted on 7/17/21 at 11:09 am to BabyTac
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It’s amazing to me how fast a city can deteriorate with the wrong, hard headed, out of touch leadership. Austin, TX used to be one of the greatest, safest places to live. In just 3 years it’s going to compete shite in and around the downtown area with homeless people and crime.
That's those San Francisco style politics doing that
Posted on 7/17/21 at 11:25 am to tigeraddict
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Jackson,ms
Well, I’ve got some news for you…..I have lived in both Baton Rouge and the Jackson, MS area, and there is absolutely no difference.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 11:25 am to fallguy_1978
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It'll be like Jackson or Montgomery if you dropped Miss State or Auburn's campus a few miles from downtown
It will be like Jackson. Millsaps has a 8' metal fence around campus with security access gates. The city is basically lunatics running the asylum while the white taxpaying minority hold on in their little pockets watching their cars getting broke into. Infrastructure continues to crumble b/c there's so little tax base left. Everything around it incorporated land-locking any footprint growth. When the legis is in session, the three restaurants downtown make some money. There will be an "alternative" lifestyle component floating around going to Brickyard all the time...and thats about it.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 11:33 am to Duckhammer_77
The issue with BR is that the people who have been leaving since the 90s are the middle class and wealthy. It's been a continuous shift in demographics for 30+ years.
The population of BR proper is about the same today as it was in 1980. Tax payers move to the suburbs or out of state and they are replaced with people on government assistance having 6 kids. It's not quite to the level of Jackson yet but 20 yrs should do it.
The population of BR proper is about the same today as it was in 1980. Tax payers move to the suburbs or out of state and they are replaced with people on government assistance having 6 kids. It's not quite to the level of Jackson yet but 20 yrs should do it.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 11:39 am to fallguy_1978
It’ll be interesting to see what yearly homicide rate will look like. Will 200+ homicides be the norm in 20 years?
Posted on 7/17/21 at 11:41 am to Breauxsif
Probably. I'll read about it on here I guess.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:00 pm to bdavids09
In 20 years the mayor will announce her master drainage plan.
In 20 years the Community Team will be released by their kidnappers when the C-P agrees to settle on a 50 million dollar ransom.
In 20 years the third phase of the widening phase of I-10 will commence. The second phase( widening from college to Acadian will be complete.
In 20 years the recently completed Comite Diversion Canal will be heralded as a major success when the Amite basin receives 22” of rain and the projected flood levels were reduced an inch and a half in Denham Springs.
In 20 years the rapid transit line from Plank Road to LSU will open up their first leg from US 61 to Evangrline.
In 20 years Kip Holden’s GreenlightPlan will be completed when the widening of Nicholson Drive from LSU to West Lee is done.
In 20 years the location of a second Mississippi River Bridge in BR will be narrowed down to three locations. Environmental studies will start to narrow the location down to two. There are five engineering companies vying for the job.
In 20 years garbage pick up eill be reduced to once a month from the regular twice a month. The mayor saying the 700 dollar a month fee won’t be enough so services will be cut.
In 20 years there will be a merger of LSU, Southern and BRCC. Educators believe that separate but equal is impossible so it’s now one school for all students. Football, basketball and baseball games will rotate between campuses.
The state capital eill be in Prairieville.
In 20 years the Community Team will be released by their kidnappers when the C-P agrees to settle on a 50 million dollar ransom.
In 20 years the third phase of the widening phase of I-10 will commence. The second phase( widening from college to Acadian will be complete.
In 20 years the recently completed Comite Diversion Canal will be heralded as a major success when the Amite basin receives 22” of rain and the projected flood levels were reduced an inch and a half in Denham Springs.
In 20 years the rapid transit line from Plank Road to LSU will open up their first leg from US 61 to Evangrline.
In 20 years Kip Holden’s GreenlightPlan will be completed when the widening of Nicholson Drive from LSU to West Lee is done.
In 20 years the location of a second Mississippi River Bridge in BR will be narrowed down to three locations. Environmental studies will start to narrow the location down to two. There are five engineering companies vying for the job.
In 20 years garbage pick up eill be reduced to once a month from the regular twice a month. The mayor saying the 700 dollar a month fee won’t be enough so services will be cut.
In 20 years there will be a merger of LSU, Southern and BRCC. Educators believe that separate but equal is impossible so it’s now one school for all students. Football, basketball and baseball games will rotate between campuses.
The state capital eill be in Prairieville.
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