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

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Aside from bad public schools, what makes BR a bad place to raise a child? Assuming you live in a good area, of course.

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I think schooling is the main thing. Paying taxes to support the public schools and then paying thousands to send your child to a private school where they aren't necessarily getting a better education. Think how much better the city could be if the money spent on private school education went back into the community. People could eat out more, shop more, etc.

In general I find the wages here to be low with a cost of living that isn't all that cheap. But I know that isn't true for all industries.

The best way I can think to fix the schools is people need to start sending their kids to public schools and over time they would get better. But who is going to want to be the first to do that? I know I don't.

Don’t know, but fast getting to that point

HailHail, I live in Trabuco Canyon (Dove Canyon), where do you live?

i'm going to move eventually.
everyone just needs to relax and stop bugging me about it.

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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.

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I’m right there with you. I have a similar story about our 2016 WC audit as well. I do most of my business in Ascension. Every now and then we build in ebr and it’s always a hassle.

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I wasn't aware that BR had suburbs

Subdivisions for sure, but not suburbs really

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Denham, Prairieville wouldn't be considered suburbs? They're part of the BR metro area. I'd go as far as considering Walker and Gonzales as BR suburbs, too. Since all of the unincorporated areas are not part of BR proper, I suppose they'd be considered suburbs too, although in my mind they're in BR.

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My wife saying yes. I ask her pretty much every day.

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This is my hold up for moving out of LA.

Thankfully the OT provides many threads pointing out the shitty facts about our state, and I try to show her every one.

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Denham, Prairieville wouldn't be considered suburbs? They're part of the BR metro area. I'd go as far as considering Walker and Gonzales as BR suburbs, too. Since all of the unincorporated areas are not part of BR proper, I suppose they'd be considered suburbs too, although in my mind they're in BR.

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I guess so. In my experience (when moving out of Baton Rouge), most suburbs have public transportation, metro type train stations that lead to the main city, multiple towns (50 or more) and townships with their own little 'downtown' areas and main streets, etc. Also how the infrastructure and streets are set up in block style, numbered streets, stuff like that.

I think it's more due to population though, since in DuPage county where I am, is like 5x the population of Baton Rouge.

I just remember moving up here and going "Oh, so this is what suburbs are"