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re: What is BR lacking that other cities have?
Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:09 pm to Redstickbaw
Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:09 pm to Redstickbaw
Cleanliness
When I lived in BR from 2008-2013 I got sick and tired of driving over diapers, chicken bones and crawfish shells in store parking lots
When I lived in BR from 2008-2013 I got sick and tired of driving over diapers, chicken bones and crawfish shells in store parking lots
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Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:11 pm to Redstickbaw
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What is BR lacking that other cities have?
Safety
Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:12 pm to magildachunks
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Honestly, if more well-to-do white folks sent their kids to public schools and got more involved (read: elect the people they want to it)with the school board and what curriculum and standards should be taught in the schools, then you'd see a drastic improvement quickly.
What drugs are you on?
Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:15 pm to magildachunks
quote:many of the well-to-do white folks in BR send their kids to U-High (public) or Mayfair or FLAIM - if they don’t go U-High all the way then Sherwood Middle and on to BR Magnet
if more well-to-do white folks sent their kids to public schools
Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:17 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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Diversity is not a strength.
Y’all ever think about the insane impact demographics have on almost every single thing? Where we live, where we school, where we shop. Demographics, specifically the need to avoid one certain demographic, drives so much people movement it’s unfathomable. And with that comes suburban sprawl and traffic and new infrastructure etc. Just on the OT we have demographics being the reason BR sucks and why indoor shopping malls died and probably why someone got maced at Waffle House.
This post was edited on 4/6/26 at 10:32 pm
Posted on 4/6/26 at 10:29 pm to tigerinthebueche
Clearly necessity. You can’t leisurely dodge bullets.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 11:05 pm to Scoob
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At one point, it seemed like that was underway, but everything went dormant.
You can thank Broome for that
Posted on 4/7/26 at 12:17 am to glassman
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Being walkable. I live in shithole New Orleans. I can walk to a great Spanish restaurant, a French bistro, a cheese shop/restaurant, a Venezuelan restaurant, a soon to be renovated Upperline restaurant by a James Beard award winner, an ice cream place, a frozen yogurt place, a yoga studio, a gift shop, a dry cleaners, two bakeries, haircuts and nail places, two gyms, an urgent care clinic, a CVS, three bank branches, a wine shop, a neighborhood dive bar, a library and a full service grocery store. All within a 90 second walk. Holy run on sentence
Damn I miss living Uptown. Kingpin TYFYS.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 12:22 am to Redstickbaw
I think it's more too much of several things than "lacking" anything...
Posted on 4/7/26 at 1:05 am to glassman
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Being walkable. I live in shithole New Orleans. I can walk to a great Spanish restaurant, a French bistro, a cheese shop/restaurant, a Venezuelan restaurant, a soon to be renovated Upperline restaurant by a James Beard award winner, an ice cream place, a frozen yogurt place, a yoga studio, a gift shop, a dry cleaners, two bakeries, haircuts and nail places, two gyms, an urgent care clinic, a CVS, three bank branches, a wine shop, a neighborhood dive bar, a library and a full service grocery store. All within a 90 second walk.
Holy run on sentence.
Bingo. I'm a a BR native and huge supporter of the my home town.
But I just moved back here after 7 years away and I can't safely jog or ride my bike from Corporate Blvd to the Overpass or anywhere across I-10.
We desperately need safe sidewalks and bike paths EVERYWHERE.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 7:14 am to Redstickbaw
Things to do besides good food and sports. How about a paved bike path system for people who want to exercise besides the levee? The lakes have somewhat of a path, but they're either tore up now or in need of repaving. It would help keep bikers off the main roads. Speaking of roads, repaving them would go a long way instead of just filling potholes unevenly.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 7:17 am to Redstickbaw
Reasonably sufficient transportation infrastructure
Posted on 4/7/26 at 7:47 am to Redstickbaw
Leadership - when an innocent college kid can’t stop at a railroad crossing without getting murdered cold blood, and the mayor makes no effort to find her killer, you have a big problem.
Demographics - not much else to say. One demographic responsible for 99% of BR’s problems
Downtown Accomodations - you have people coming in/out of downtown all weekend for conferences, events at the river center, etc., and only a handful of restaurants open on the weekends. Last time I visited downtown on a Sunday, nothing was open. It looked like a ghost town.
Demographics - not much else to say. One demographic responsible for 99% of BR’s problems
Downtown Accomodations - you have people coming in/out of downtown all weekend for conferences, events at the river center, etc., and only a handful of restaurants open on the weekends. Last time I visited downtown on a Sunday, nothing was open. It looked like a ghost town.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 9:40 am to baytiger11
Plentiful high-paying jobs pretty near the top of the list IMO
I think a lot of it is downstream of that
I think a lot of it is downstream of that
This post was edited on 4/7/26 at 9:44 am
Posted on 4/7/26 at 10:35 am to glassman
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Being walkable. I live in shithole New Orleans. I can walk to a great Spanish restaurant, a French bistro, a cheese shop/restaurant, a Venezuelan restaurant, a soon to be renovated Upperline restaurant by a James Beard award winner, an ice cream place, a frozen yogurt place, a yoga studio, a gift shop, a dry cleaners, two bakeries, haircuts and nail places, two gyms, an urgent care clinic, a CVS, three bank branches, a wine shop, a neighborhood dive bar, a library and a full service grocery store. All within a 90 second walk.
I definitely miss living Uptown, it’s the best neighborhood in the state by a long shot
Posted on 4/7/26 at 11:52 am to Redstickbaw
Any public school you can send your kid to
Posted on 4/7/26 at 11:55 am to glassman
I know exactly where you stay baw
Posted on 4/7/26 at 1:12 pm to Redstickbaw
Baton Rouge is lacking 2 things that would help the metro area immensely.
1) An airport that isn't embarrassingly small for a metro its size.
2) An interstate bypass with a 3rd bridge crossing the Miss. River south of the city.
HM - The entire I-10 needs to be 3 lanes between Baron Rouge and New Orleans. I-12 needs to be expanded to 4 lanes.
1) An airport that isn't embarrassingly small for a metro its size.
2) An interstate bypass with a 3rd bridge crossing the Miss. River south of the city.
HM - The entire I-10 needs to be 3 lanes between Baron Rouge and New Orleans. I-12 needs to be expanded to 4 lanes.
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