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re: How different is the town you grew up in?
Posted on 8/16/20 at 6:16 am to yaboidarrell
Posted on 8/16/20 at 6:16 am to yaboidarrell
Shreveport, actually huge amount of development... all of yourree drive was cotton fields and elderberry booming now... but more crime. Haven’t lived there since I was 18 over 20 years ago
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Posted on 8/16/20 at 7:40 am to yaboidarrell
Bogalusa.......More poor people. The mill kept giving all the good jobs to the same families for 50 years. Bunch of poors, bunch of middle class. Sad to watch.
Posted on 8/16/20 at 9:27 am to yaboidarrell
Born and reared around Bogalusa. It wasn’t a bad little town in the 70’s but, even then, people were leaving. It’s a real craphole now. I go there every few months or so to visit my parents gravesite and hardly ever drive into town. It just seems like a miserable place.
Posted on 8/16/20 at 10:02 am to yaboidarrell
Weddington NC
Still the same
Still the same
Posted on 8/16/20 at 10:23 am to I Bleed Garnet
Born in Jackson Ms. Nuff said
Posted on 8/16/20 at 10:32 am to yaboidarrell
Grew up in Vegas. Californians and illegals came in droves. You do the math
Posted on 8/16/20 at 10:51 am to yaboidarrell
Tiny town of 150 in East Feliciana parish. Lots of kids running around plus lots of really old homes that were so cool. Walked 1/2 mile to go hunting and fishing. 2 miles to swim in Thompson Creek. Except for a few old people place is totally culcha or methheads now. So sad. When my mom is gone (she's in her 80's) have no reason to ever go back there again.
Posted on 8/16/20 at 10:55 am to yaboidarrell
New Orleans was already going down in 1980 (I just didn't realize how much at the time) when I moved to Houston for work. Nowadays when I go back, I usually just stay in and around Metairie, but that's changed too!
Posted on 8/16/20 at 10:59 am to saltwaterdawg
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Born in Jackson Ms. Nuff said
I’m sorry for you, hopefully you have left
I’m thankful I was born and raised in great town
This post was edited on 8/16/20 at 10:59 am
Posted on 8/16/20 at 11:01 am to yaboidarrell
Born and raised in Midland Michigan. Left in 1979 and then went back in 1996 till 2000. It really had not changed. Now I’m not sure but with it being the corporate hq of Dow Chemical it will always be a nice place to raise kids. Zero crime. No bus stations and the only rr track is near the Dow plant. It’s a nice town of about 35,000, but people are snobby and think their shite don’t stink.
Posted on 8/16/20 at 11:01 am to Bryno1960
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reared around Bogalusa
Boy scout?
Posted on 8/16/20 at 11:14 am to 9001
Baton Rouge was actually on the upswing during the years of Kip Holden’s administration. Downtown came back to life, MidCity began to thrive, and the overall stagnation the city had been in seemed to be letting up. Then came Broome and all that ended.
Posted on 8/16/20 at 11:17 am to Beaux Man
Between the civil rights shite and shutting down the Air Force Base, was the beginning of the end for Selma. All those Politicians(race baiters) go back every year to march across the bridge, amazing they can’t see the shite hole now! The Congress Woman is from there, Terri Sewell, and she is the Queen of the Democrats and their racebaiting.
Posted on 8/16/20 at 11:19 am to yaboidarrell
ferriday is so cosmopolitan.. it actually used to be an okay small town and then culcha happened
Posted on 8/16/20 at 11:19 am to yaboidarrell
Nashville.
Like all changes, some are good, and some are bad.
-I miss no traffic and getting across town in no time.
-I miss how laid back it was. Now, it’s become much more “posh” and shiny. It used to be an old school, meat and three, country western and bluegrass (not that shite you hear today) town.
-I miss the politics. Even though the city was always predominately Democrat, it was still much more socially conservative. The transplants have brought their political ideals, which is fine, but they are much more in your face about it. It’s off putting.
-I really miss the politeness. It was always, and still is, just less so, a polite and help your neighbor town. The influx of transplants from the West Coast, Chicago, and Michigan have made it much less so.
-That said, they’ve cleaned up certain areas (Broadway, the Gulch, East Nashville, Germantown, Sylvan Park, The Nations). Aside from parts of East Nashville, these are areas you would never really consider buying a home. Now, you’re lucky to find a good home under $400,000 in these areas.
Like all changes, some are good, and some are bad.
-I miss no traffic and getting across town in no time.
-I miss how laid back it was. Now, it’s become much more “posh” and shiny. It used to be an old school, meat and three, country western and bluegrass (not that shite you hear today) town.
-I miss the politics. Even though the city was always predominately Democrat, it was still much more socially conservative. The transplants have brought their political ideals, which is fine, but they are much more in your face about it. It’s off putting.
-I really miss the politeness. It was always, and still is, just less so, a polite and help your neighbor town. The influx of transplants from the West Coast, Chicago, and Michigan have made it much less so.
-That said, they’ve cleaned up certain areas (Broadway, the Gulch, East Nashville, Germantown, Sylvan Park, The Nations). Aside from parts of East Nashville, these are areas you would never really consider buying a home. Now, you’re lucky to find a good home under $400,000 in these areas.
Posted on 8/16/20 at 11:27 am to yaboidarrell
Grew up in DeQuincy. Town around 3,000. Still a 2A school. Fausto’s Fried Chicken closed a few years ago. Was around since the 80’s. Was like a landmark for the town. Added a second dollar general and building an O’Reillys as we speak. Other than that same ole same ole.
Posted on 8/16/20 at 11:58 am to I Bleed Garnet
Yes I live in Madison now, my father is 94 and still lives in Jackson. As an only child, I will stick around close for him, after tha, I’m selling and moving on to greener pastures.
Posted on 8/16/20 at 12:02 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:I grew up on acreage with multiple other family members and cousins. All of the land has been sold commercial because it borders the thruway but none of it has been developed yet.
grew up in Central in the 80s to mid 90s. It looks a lot different in certain parts than I remember. It's grown quite a bit.
Posted on 8/16/20 at 12:09 pm to bbqguy
Did you grow up in Tallulah of Lake Providence
Posted on 8/16/20 at 2:06 pm to saltwaterdawg
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Yes I live in Madison now, my father is 94 and still lives in Jackson. As an only child, I will stick around close for him, after tha, I’m selling and moving on to greener pastures.
I will pray for you
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