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Why is the Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange, TX area so depressing?
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:09 am
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:09 am
It seems like with all the high paying plant and port jobs in this area that these cities should be thriving, right? Lots of high paid white collar and blue collar gigs supporting a robust middle class, yet when I drive through, everywhere looks rusty, dilapidated, and possibly abandoned. What happened? Why is it so crappy? It seems like this area should have plenty of money to appear well-maintained and spruced up, but it looks like demilitarized zone.
Can anyone explain?
Can anyone explain?
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Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:10 am to kingbob
Didn't recent hurricanes decimate that area?? Harvey was awful.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:11 am to tiger91
It definitely looked like that before the hurricane.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:12 am to kingbob
never ending interstate construction will really break a city's morale
This post was edited on 12/4/20 at 11:12 am
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:12 am to kingbob
Great white flight in the early 90's.. Gotta go to the burbs to see anything nice now.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:13 am to kingbob
Because it's Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange, TX. How many nice places do you see adjacent to plants & ports that's existence is basically because of said plant or port?
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:13 am to kingbob
Because it’s closer to Louisiana
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:13 am to tiger91
It's also one of the most polluted places in the country.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:15 am to Tortious
AP has many very nice neighborhoods.
Baton Rouge has a lot of ghetto, but a lot of nice neighborhoods as well.
West Baton Rouge parish has some nice parts that only exist due to Dow.
I have yet to encounter a neighborhood in the Beaumont area that didn’t look like Marty’s old house in the Evil 1985.
Baton Rouge has a lot of ghetto, but a lot of nice neighborhoods as well.
West Baton Rouge parish has some nice parts that only exist due to Dow.
I have yet to encounter a neighborhood in the Beaumont area that didn’t look like Marty’s old house in the Evil 1985.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:15 am to kingbob
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Lots of high paid white collar and blue collar gigs supporting a robust middle class
In Beaumont?
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:16 am to Paul Allen
Plants employ engineers.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:16 am to kingbob
It's not. It's Texas. Everything is better in Texas, according to many people who post here.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:16 am to kingbob
I-10 construction? 
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:20 am to kingbob
It really isn't that nice of a place to go to. They have no real nice hotels or anything. I went down there for a fishing trip, paid for by a vendor and it was not where I would take customers.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:21 am to kingbob
Lotta ballers live on and around Thomas Rd. in Beaumont.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:22 am to kingbob
That area is full of environmental issues. People have been known to get cancer because of the plants.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:22 am to kingbob
Vidor is where it's at baw
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:23 am to kingbob
quote:
Baton Rouge has a lot of ghetto, but a lot of nice neighborhoods as well.
Right but BR doesn't exist solely or mostly to the plants.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:25 am to kingbob
The Golden Triangle area is somehow worse than the Permian Basin.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 11:26 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
Do you even Hotel Elegante???
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