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re: What will baton rouge look like in 20 years?
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:36 pm to Klark Kent
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:36 pm to Klark Kent
Your follow up question is irrelevant. I didn't say $750k houses were the norm for the city. The wealthy are never the norm. The poster I replied to said there was socio-economic flight out of the city. Yet, the number of expensive houses in the city has continued skyrocketing, between new construction and renovation.
So, if all the rich people are leaving, who is buying all of these houses?
So, if all the rich people are leaving, who is buying all of these houses?
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Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:36 pm to fallguy_1978
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But I can remember entire swaths of BR that were once nice that are ghetto now. It's still happening too.
Villa del Rey says Hi.
You know man, when I think back when I was a kid it shocks me. I once dated girls who lived off Hollywood Street, many in Baker, one off Gardere, around the Belaire areas, and a couple of them in the Monticello subdivision, back when it took much pride in showing off all of the Christmas lights people traveled from all over to see every year.
What’s become of those areas today is mind boggling to be honest.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:37 pm to Klark Kent
Yeah, nobody middle class is buying a 750k house. They live in a 250k house off of Jones Creek or something like that.
Obviously, BR does have some wealthy residents like any other city this size.
Obviously, BR does have some wealthy residents like any other city this size.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:38 pm to tigerjjs
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The state capital and LSU should still be here so I would think the Lakes area will still be decent.
LSU and the immediate surrounding area needs to just break off from Baton Rouge proper and become their own city. LSU, LA or Flagship, LA.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:39 pm to Mike da Tigah
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Villa del Rey says Hi.
I had a friend that still lived in Glen Oaks when I was a kid. I had a HS girlfriend that lived in Sharon Hills. Obviously both are total crap now. My mom used to live off of North Sherwood
This post was edited on 7/17/21 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:47 pm to bdavids09
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What will baton rouge look like in 20 years?
I will not be here to find out.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:53 pm to Notnac
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I will not be here to find out.
Left many years ago for much greener pastures. I visit BR from time to time, however moving back would absolutely be out of the question.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 12:55 pm to bdavids09
Oh shite sorry didn’t mean to post a current pic.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:00 pm to Joshjrn
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The poster I replied to said there was socio-economic flight out of the city.
There absolutely has been. The super wealthy have always been able to pay to insulate themselves from many of BRs problems. They buy a house in nice neighborhood and send their kids to Episcopal or Catholic High. But the middle class family who used to live in say Park Forest? They don't live here anymore.
This post was edited on 7/17/21 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:01 pm to Amadeo
quote:Even those neighborhoods are changing.
Detroit has some of the best suburbs in the country.
The schools in those areas can still be dangerous!
Never know who might show up in your kitchen.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:02 pm to bdavids09
Like Jackson MS. Probably worse.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:04 pm to fallguy_1978
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But the middle class family who used to live in say Park Forest? They don't live here anymore.
Exactly. They moved out of state.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:05 pm to fallguy_1978
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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.
Yep, and one group is growing exponentially and the other is aging out and/or having 1 or 2 kids that they can afford to provide basic necessities of love, nurture, morals, and nourishment.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:05 pm to bdavids09
Jackson, MS
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:06 pm to fallguy_1978
Jim Hawthrone (former voice of the Tigers) lived in Park Forest in 2016. That’s what the newspaper said. That was mind blowing to me. Not sure if he still lives there or not.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:07 pm to Paul Allen
I can think of a lot of other neighborhoods like that too that were once nice middle class areas that are crime riddled and run down now.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:07 pm to Joshjrn
who said all the rich people are leaving? the only sentiments to this conversation i’ve seen so far are “middle class”. And yes, they are leaving. Leaving to South Baton Rouge.
in making your slanted argument, of course it is
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Your follow up question is irrelevant.
in making your slanted argument, of course it is
This post was edited on 7/17/21 at 1:09 pm
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:11 pm to BZ504
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Jim Hawthrone (former voice of the Tigers) lived in Park Forest in 2016. That’s what the newspaper said. That was mind blowing to me. Not sure if he still lives there or not.
That would be odd. I would assume that Jim did pretty well for himself at LSU and Park Forest hasn't been great for a long time now.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:18 pm to Klark Kent
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yet you’ve never been to Detroit or Windsor have you?
yet you've never learned proper message board etiquette have you?...as instead of offering anything to refute my claim, you counter with a sardonic question.
I will assume that you have been to Detroit yet you offer no personal photographs, no personal anecdotes, nothing to back up your assertion. Not a f*cking jot.
To answer your "question", I've been to Detroit twice, and I drove thru Windsor on my second visit.
If I may, in a more self indulgent tone, I have 6 years in the Navy, and 13 years in the merchant marine. By the time I turned 38, I calculate that I had circumnavigated the globe 8 times.
Though I'm certain they exist, I have no conscious knowledge of ever meeting anyone who has traveled as for as I have.
A little something to consider in the future when questioning my opinions of places of which I speak, particularly if you are going to come back with nothing.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:23 pm to fallguy_1978
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I can think of a lot of other neighborhoods like that too that were once nice middle class areas that are crime riddled and run down now.
Way too many. Sad to see, especially for a city the size of BR (225,000 city limits population) which isn’t too big.
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