re: Would a move to the Atlanta metro be a lateral move from south LA?

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However, that is remarkable considering BRs metro population is 830k and ATL is 5.5 million

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A lot of mid sized cities have growing pains and difficulties adopting new means of transportation....

....but the fact that the decking for I-10 hasn’t been updated in 70 years in the heart of Baton Rouge is insane. The metro has grown 8 times over in size in that time frame and truck traffic has grown even more.

It’s like the state and federal government have been openly hostile to the Baton Rouge region’s infrastructure needs for decades.

They could improve traffic massively by just adding lanes on I-10 and Airline Highway. It’s been needed for 30 years. It’s a relatively simple fix and Louisiana still can’t get it done. A loop or commuter rail is just too complex for Louisiana.

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It’s like the state and federal government

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The state government is incompetent and can’t run the state the way it should be ran. It’s no mystery why the brightest and best are leaving the state for better opportunities. They don’t give us good reasons to stay.

It all depends on where you would be working and your commute. I live near Canton/Woodstock in Cherokee county which is north of Atlanta and on the 75/575 corridor and I love it up here. The traffic here is getting worse due to more subdivisions, people and more shopping centers. The public school system here is good and I would recommend this area to anyone. I like being far enough away from Atlanta but if we want to do something in Atlanta we are only 30+ mins away. Atlanta is so big and so spread out anywhere you want to go will take you a minimum of 30 mins.

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It’s really not that bad. The metro is 7.4 million, and it’s all spread out. There’s going to be traffic. There are so many different roads to take to avoid major highways when congestion gets too bad or there’s a wreck. Plenty of north/south and east/west roads to take.

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Bingo. Our major cities on LA have little to none of these. No service roads. No alternative routes that aren’t 30 Miles out of the way. It’s a joke. Your choice is sit in the gridlock for an hour or two until they move the wreck or go 30-45 Miles extra to possibly avoid any issues. Such a pathetic way to live

The only way BR traffic will change is if 500,000 people magically disappeared overnight and hundreds of thousands of people every day stopped using I-10 as their main route to get around. That’s all a big IF too.

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Bingo. Our major cities on LA have little to none of these. No service roads. No alternative routes that aren’t 30 Miles out of the way. It’s a joke. Your choice is sit in the gridlock for an hour or two until they move the wreck or go 30-45 Miles extra to possibly avoid any issues. Such a pathetic way to live

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could not agree more. But it is important to note that Atlanta doesn't offer similar alternative routes like DFW. They're coming, which is nice, but it's going to be a while.

But let's be clear- I'd leave BR for Atlanta in a millisecond.

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They've approved funding, as my link describes, but it is going to be 10 or so years before that work is completed.

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The only current major problem is 285 and its under construction right now and has been for the last year, it wont be 10 years

The suburbs are solid but there has been a lot of turnover and some of the "good" suburbs are no longer very good.

In my view, maybe because I'm getting older and more interested in school systems and areas, is that the "good suburbs" are contracting. East Cobb, Roswell, Alpharetta are the safe locations for good public schools. But because people don't view Gwinnett like they used to, or may not want to go out to Cherokee or Forsyth, those areas are pretty expensive.

Of course, part of this depends on what you're looking for. If you want a safe school where most of your kids' friends will go to college, that's a ton of schools in the metro. If you want a school with invested families where a lot of kids are going to bigger universities rather than in state directional-type schools, there are fewer options. In my estimation, this has more to do with how "established" a school is, and how established the area is. Hence, you probably have more families sending kids to Tech//UGA/Vanderbilt from Walton than from a Forsyth County school, even though the latter is fine for most purposes.

Not sure if you care about that stuff, but it drives demand and pricing, so it makes sense to think about even if you don't care about schools right now.

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That’s all a big IF too.

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Another IF: if LOMV stops giving drivers licenses to morons.

Have they finalized the I75 express lanes? I haven't made the drive in a while.

eta reading they should be done by this summer, which is obviously now. This correct? If so, that's fricking sweet.