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re: Why is the Beaumont/Port Arthur area such a dump?
Posted on 4/15/21 at 4:13 pm to TulaneFan
Posted on 4/15/21 at 4:13 pm to TulaneFan
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Beaumont could be a nice place if they just put a little effort into cleaning it up and cracking down on the crime. Most of the trash would flee to Houston and you’d have a halfway decent city
There are a few nice areas in Beaumont (west end area/ Thomas Rd.), but most people fled to Lumberton, Sour Lake, Koutze, etc. when they finally desegregated schools in 1983....one of the last school districts to do so. Downtown has always been a crappy area.
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Posted on 4/15/21 at 4:17 pm to TulaneFan
Looks like Baton Ruoge
Posted on 4/15/21 at 4:20 pm to TulaneFan
So happy I moved out of Beaumont. Took the first chance out of that place. Being single and in mid 20s there was a nightmare.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 4:21 pm to TulaneFan
Way too many environmental issues for everyone to be open to living there.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 4:55 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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Drugs and alcohol bring down plenty areas
Guess their weren’t enough for Janice
This post was edited on 4/15/21 at 4:58 pm
Posted on 4/15/21 at 5:03 pm to TwoFace
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It got worse after Katrina evacuees showed up.
and there it is Katrina evacuees
Posted on 4/15/21 at 5:05 pm to JohnDoe00
quote:not enough homosexual clubs for you?
Took the first chance out of that place. Being single and in mid 20s there was a nightmare.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 5:06 pm to TulaneFan
Because its next to Louisiana.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 5:16 pm to TulaneFan
It’s too close to Louisiana.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 5:19 pm to oldskule
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Looks like Baton Ruoge
More like Lake Chuck after a collusion with Jackson.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 5:20 pm to dewster
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the whole area needs focus on improving Beaumont's downtown area.
There have been some attempts, but there aren't enough young, upwardly mobile professionals who want to live there to really sustain that. Even the people I know who claim to love living there would rather go out on the boat or go out of town if they want to do something fun.
Larger cities like Houston, or like someone else mentioned BR, needed sustained and repeated efforts for 10-20 years to spark any kind of real Downtown revival after the urban decline of the 70's and 80's. Not sure Beaumont has the population or the collective will to do that.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 5:51 pm to TulaneFan
I travel to Beaumont for work. It has a lot of potential downtown but def has its issues like other places. They have some nice neighborhoods & I really like J. Wilsons & Crown pizza. People there are nice too.
With that being said, I was blown away by how crappy & run down most of Port Arthur is. Blocks & blocks of run down neighborhoods. Very depressing.
With that being said, I was blown away by how crappy & run down most of Port Arthur is. Blocks & blocks of run down neighborhoods. Very depressing.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 5:51 pm to TulaneFan
Terrible area. We have a plant there and I go a couple of times a year. Most of the guys that work in our plant live out towards Winnie which is west towards Baytown.
I did find a couple of cool places to eat and drink there.
Neches River Wheelhouse in Port Netches and
Tia Juanita's Fish Camp. I enjoyed both. The Wheelhouse getting the nod as the better of the two.
I did find a couple of cool places to eat and drink there.
Neches River Wheelhouse in Port Netches and
Tia Juanita's Fish Camp. I enjoyed both. The Wheelhouse getting the nod as the better of the two.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 6:48 pm to TulaneFan
It's Texas!!
Posted on 4/15/21 at 6:51 pm to Geauxld Finger
quote:One of the biggest privately owned medical equipment companies in the world is located there LINK
There is actually money in Beaumont
Posted on 4/15/21 at 7:37 pm to TulaneFan
Uneducated. Worst public school system in the state.
Also the area is a concrete swamp.
Also the area is a concrete swamp.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 8:17 pm to Jim Rockford
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One of the biggest privately owned medical equipment companies in the world is located there LINK
I’m sure it’s a nice company, but the building listed as their corporate office looks like one of the windowless metal warehouse buildings in the Wooddale Blvd/Tom Dr/Choctaw Dr area in Baton Rouge.
Like if it wasn’t a medical laboratory, they could definitely reuse it to house construction equipment, service fork lifts, or maybe an indoor shooting range.
Reminds me of Shopper’s Choice/BBQ Guys HQ in Baton Rouge, only smaller and not as nice.
This post was edited on 4/15/21 at 8:27 pm
Posted on 4/15/21 at 8:43 pm to TwoFace
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It got worse after Katrina evacuees showed up.
Yeah so did Houston, Br, Atlanta and everywhere within 500 miles of New Orleans. We get it. Every surrounding community was a haven prior to Katrina.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 8:55 pm to dewster
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Beaumont's downtown area.
I’ve always thought it looked sort of cool - at least from the Interstate. In kind of a ‘50s time warp way.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:31 pm to TulaneFan
Its really gone downhill since Dream Street in Beaumont closed.
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