re: What will it take for you to finally leave baton rouge?

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This crap that’s currently going on with the metro council is absolutely disgusting. When I read about stuff like that, it makes it very hard to ever imagine coming back to BR.

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This is the final nail in the coffin for us. We live in the proposed St. George area. If the city doesn't happen, we will be residents elsewhere.

Wife and I live in Capital Heights and love it out here. Don’t plan on going anywhere. Just bought some investment properties in and nearby CH.

A lot of money and better job. For my industry though the most competitive part in the world is right here in the gulf south. I like living in the city and having freedom to get another job if needed. My only options for a Larger city in the gulf south is Baton Rouge, Houston, and New Orleans.

Would consider N.O. or Houston if the right job presented itself.

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Wife and I live in Capital Heights and love it out here.

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We live in the same area and we love it too. Unfortunately for us we are small business owners and doing business with the city parish and state have become so burdensome we are looking to relocate before spring of 2019.

I guess it's really the state government more so than our local city parish government. The state has created an environment for small business owners where they can not be trusted to act logically. Your experience depends entirely on who you're speaking with that day. Laws and regulation do not apply.

A good example is this year we got dinged with a onsite workers comp audit for the 2016 tax year. The auditor made this unnecessarily burdensome by scheduling visits multiple visits (5) and not showing up. The final straw was her taking my original tax documentation to her office despite this being an on site audit and then vanishing for 3 full months. I ended up owing about $6 but easily wasted 20 hours of my own personal time between waiting for scheduled appointments and trying to tract down my documentation after the auditor taking it with her.

shite, we might move there from Nashville.

Aging family and us having a baby and want to be closer.

I am fighting it hard though. Would be nice to buy a really good house in a decent neighborhood for 400k, but that's not enough to bring us there...yet.

Nashville is just so damn expensive now. Its unreal.

I grew up in 70805. Believe it or not- it was actually at one time long ago a great place for a kid to grow up. The kind of place where the kids stayed outside and played until they were called in at dark. No worries.

Too many cultural losers eventually overtook the area. These replacements were of a "different mindset" when it came to things like the traditional two-parent family and personal responsibility. Of course there are exceptions. But it should be obvious based on the demise of NBR that the vast majority of the people who made the area what it once was are either deceased or have moved away.Same goes for the mindset. Sad.

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Report her.

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All it took was to graduate from LSU. Four years in Baton Rouge were enough to convince me to leave once I didn't have something holding me there.

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Report her. They can't take your documents and not return them "in a reasonable time" back to you.

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She can, and she did.

Your and I probably have the same idea of what is reasonable but to the state any length of time is reasonable as long as they deem it as such.

I could go on for days about the waste and inefficiency of state and local regulatory bodies. The excuse I get most often is someone being out on FMLA time. Someones cousin gets in a car wreck and they take 3 weeks FMLA. Ridiculous .