re: Who here grew up in Baton Rouge?

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I have not needed another human being since becoming an adult. I am never lonely just being by myself. If I never get married, I would be perfectly content.

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That sounds like a lonely existence. I mean, I could understand wanting to stay single and all, but all you do is stay home all day. That doesn't ever get to you? You don't ever want to travel any? Explore the world?

Been in BR all my life. Freak all you haters

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I will go to Istanbul before I come back.

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Good, what are you waiting for? The place will be that much better once you're gone.

Grew up in BR and yes returning this year due to job offer

You know, if more people left (for someplace cool and that has it together that is) and moved back, Baton Rouge would be a much better place for it.

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It's just like everywhere else. The end.

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There's really only three things i like about the area. Fishing,Food and LSU.

If any other place offered that I'd love to live there.

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Grew up here. Travel a lot. Still live here. It's just like everywhere else. The end.

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you don't travel anywhere far or cool, or are a very UN-observant human.

That's such horseshite.


One thing I can tell you is moving away and then coming back after you have removed yourself from it for a while, you see it clearly. I'll never forget landing at the airport to come back and visit family and looking at the filthy conditions of NBR along 110, then the dead zone that downtown was, and the drivers, OMG the drivers... whew... Then the graffiti, and grey/brown grime on the interstates, the missing guard rails, fences along the interstate being taken over by weeds and tallow trees, litter everywhere, etc.

Funny how I really never paid much attention to these third world conditions when I was growing up living there, and soon afterwards it became normal again. But it's not normal.

This is not how every city is.

Not me