re: Who here is against St George?

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before I'll let myself continue to fund KIPland.

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Somehow this always gets related back to Kip. I wonder why?

I voted for Kip....once.

I live in the extreme S.E. portion of the parish. I do much of my spending in prairieville. Downtown doesnt interest me much and it serves no benefit to me. When I saw the giant LED stick Kipster bought for new years I was pissed. I relate very little to downtown BR, and much of St.George feels similarly.

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I live in the extreme S.E. portion of the parish. I do much of my spending in prairieville. Downtown doesnt interest me much and it serves no benefit to me

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Pure unadulterated awesomeness right here.

You live in EBRP, fund Prarieville (AP) and don't understand why your downtown is valuable, because it's condition isn't valuable, so it shouldn't be valued.



I do appreciate your honesty though.

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The choice to me seems to be a slowly decaying East Baton Rouge tax base for the city of Baton Rouge to suck dry

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This statement is so far from the actual facts it's laughable.

I don't understand why you think you can sit in Memphis and make such incorrect statements as if they are factual without you having the first bit of knowledge about the situation.

I hope you're just willfully uninformed and not being dishonest about it.

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What is strange about shopping at the nearest stores, or dining at the closest restaurants? I spend plenty in EBRP. Am i supposed to go spend time and money downtown just for the sake of some civic duty? I

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Civic duty?

You live in East BR Parish, fund Assension Parish, and don't understand why it would benefit you to fund your own parish where you live, or downtown BR in your own parish where you live.



I live in a fixer upper, but I am funding the remodel at my neighbor's fixer upper, and don't see why remodeling my own kitchen would serve me.

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take a look at where the project greenlight investment has been and tell me kip doesn't care about st. George

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Wasn't the original issue related to schools and test scores? So much has been thrown around, I am trying to make sure (serious question-not trying to be a j/a)

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St George better start building their Berlinesque wall now complete with guard towers, 50 cal. Machine gun nests, moats and alligators, and check points if they hope to stave off the mass influx of people from BR that will be making their way there to get in the school district. And you're NOT going to stop section 8 and tax credit. It's already there.

The Baby Boomers Last Stand.....

This whole area is stuck on dumb.

You will do nothing but create a big nasty infrastructure mess in BR, even lower population density and more crime infestation to boot, that without a giant wall to keep yourself isolated WILL be bleeding over as it always does. This has all the makings of making Baton Rouge a Welfare city on life support. In other words, your next door neighbor is going to be a trailer park ghetto. Get it?



The same people are doing the same dumb things thinking they can run from this, and evacuating whole areas in the process, but alas, I'm sure this will also be called growth rather than relocation.

I have absolutely ZERO faith in you St. George people, because the only pattern you demonstrate is a pattern of not understanding your very own assets, your community, and a consistent display of retardation in everything from zoning to street layout, to everything that is currently Baton Rouge, because quite simply put, You are the ones who helped create the mess in the first place.

Guess what.... Like everything else, this is going to be a huge failure, because it's founded in stupid nonsense, and divides a city that needs to get its head out of its arse.

Let me demonstrate... In other areas of the country, the trend is to move back to your urban areas, and reclaim what others threw away, but not here. It's the complete opposite, AS USUAL. Pulling up the arse end of things and going in reverse. Hell surprise..

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I've been waiting for you to jump in these threads. What took you so long?

With regard to your last point, fortunately there has been a lot of progress made in recent years to revitalize blighted urban areas, particularly in downtown, mid-city, and old south BR. Of course, a lot of St. George supporters don't see this as progress at all, even though it is the most conservative approach towards growth since the infrastructure and more efficient traffic grid is already there and in place.

I think a lot of these people don't realize that if there is large disinvestment and decay in the city of Baton Rouge that the same problems that they are "escaping" could eventually be right back on their door step.

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Let the flood of people to ascension and Livingston continue, and eventually BR will be nothing but LSU and ghettos.



Interesting because the wealthy were moving into the Parish. While the lower middle class were leaving.
Yeah, those darn facts keep getting in the way of the SG drama queens.....

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Back that up with facts and citations or GTFO

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LSURussian

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You're making it more and more difficult for people to blindly shite on Old Baton Rouge with your "facts". You should probably cut it out.

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You could pump money into any area of the parish and accomplish the same thing

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Two things...

First we have to get you and yours to understand why it's important to at least spend money in your own parish

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We have to get you to understand what a vibrant downtown means to the area in attraction for people visiting the area.

They already have Wal Marts where they live. A vibrant downtown with local restaurants, nightlife, and shite to do is a draw. The same draw can be found in every city, well almost every city that isn't in this bass ackwards region.

What you really need to do is move someplace cool for a little, come back and the scales will fall off of your eye balls.

Or at the very least, maybe next vacation, instead of Destin or Houston, go somewhere you haven't been outside of this region and take in what life could be like if you could have even a little bit of vision outside of what you know and think is normal.