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Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:11 pm to Amadeo
yet you’ve never been to Detroit or Windsor have you?
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:12 pm to bdavids09
Detroit.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:13 pm to fallguy_1978
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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.
Out of curiosity, who has been buying all of these $750k fully renovated houses in mid city the last few years? Poor people?
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:14 pm to Klark Kent
Detroit is just horrible… blocks and blocks of unoccupied buildings just falling apart and when I say Ghetto I mean GHETTO…. It makes north BR look like paradise……
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:15 pm to bdavids09
The same with more traffic
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:15 pm to Gator5220
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It will look like a deserted city, but with people living in it.
And it’ll still be all the Republican’s faults. Even though Democrats would have controlled it for 40 years almost.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:16 pm to bdavids09
I’d say a boarded up shanty town, but given the price of plywood these days, maybe just a bunch of broken glass covering the streets everywhere you look.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:20 pm to tigerjjs
Put a planned parenthood by every liquor store in the city and the problem takes care of itself.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:22 pm to Joshjrn
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Out of curiosity, who has been buying all of these $750k fully renovated houses in mid city the last few years? Poor people?
There will most likely always be some nice pockets of BR due to LSU, the state government, Exxon etc but they will continue to shrink as they have for 30 years.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:24 pm to Joshjrn
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Out of curiosity, who has been buying all of these $750k fully renovated houses in mid city the last few years? Poor people?
follow-up question to your follow-up question.
what do believe the dual income of a middle class family in Baton Rouge is? Do you believe they can afford a $750k mortgage
census.gov
according to this data in 2019, the average median income in Baton Rouge, LA was $59k. Let’s say that’s waaaaay off and round up $75k and double it for a young professional couple. Dual income of $150-200k/year. Who’s going out and getting a $750k mortgage on that dual income?
This post was edited on 7/17/21 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:25 pm to fallguy_1978
I agree….. BR is going downhill fast. Remember when the whole broadmore area was a nice place??????
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:26 pm to bdavids09
Here is what I worry about.
The mayor isn't just sitting in her office looking out her window at the river each day.
She is trying to figure out a way to tax all those people who live out of the parish but come in each day to work /shop/ or go to an entertainment event.
The mayor isn't just sitting in her office looking out her window at the river each day.
She is trying to figure out a way to tax all those people who live out of the parish but come in each day to work /shop/ or go to an entertainment event.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:27 pm to dukke v
I think Broadmoor the neighborhood has had some gentrification and maybe Amazon will help with that. It's a good location.
But I can remember entire swaths of BR that were once nice that are ghetto now. It's still happening too.
But I can remember entire swaths of BR that were once nice that are ghetto now. It's still happening too.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:29 pm to dukke v
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Remember when the whole broadmore area
Broadmoor is seeing a lot of renovations.
I'm not worried about Broadmoor. I'm worried about the multitude of apartment buildings in south Baton Rouge that are barely at 70% occupancy. There just isn't demand for that.
The above, combined with the nationwide trend of antagonizing law enforcement and activist judges will yield a very bad decade for Baton Rouge like it will for every other city in the country. We won't escape it unless we move to the suburbs.
And those suburbs need to tighten their control on development. No apartments. No cheap, shitty housing. No development in a swamp.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:30 pm to dukke v
Broadmoor, Sherwood Forrest and most everything east of Airline is transitioning because the folks that grew up there have moved to the AP or LP
It isn’t that complicated. Areas with decent public schools are growing rapidly while EBR schools flounder. The charter schools have been an improvement for people who have parents that are not awful
Thank you Judge Parker
It isn’t that complicated. Areas with decent public schools are growing rapidly while EBR schools flounder. The charter schools have been an improvement for people who have parents that are not awful
Thank you Judge Parker
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:31 pm to Klark Kent
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what do believe the dual income of a middle class family in Baton Rouge is? Do you believe they can afford a $750k mortgage
I'm sure there's quite a few living well beyond their means.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:33 pm to Klark Kent
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Who’s going out and getting a $750k mortgage on that dual income?
Successful small business owners, lawyers, executives of some of the few large companies here.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:35 pm to fallguy_1978
yeah, those well above middle class
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:36 pm to LSUBadger
Like I’ve said for years. Once it was BON Marche, then it was Cortana… the north side of Florida Blvd is trash once you get past O Neal lane…. Crime has taken over in areas we never expected…
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