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re: Will Baton Rouge ever be the Woodlands?
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:16 am to Threeve
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:16 am to Threeve
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I think a lot of BR people are. They love it here, while the city has nothing to offer other than LSU and a few bars.
Yup.
My folks were pretty amped about Perkins Rowe. I admit it is very nice, but it's just Perkins Rowe. You drive a few miles south and you're in Gardere. A few miles Northeast and you're in a declining Shenandoah.
But hey, at least they can shop at a nice place for a while before the hoodlums takeover like they took over Cortana.
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Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:17 am to MadtownTiger
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But since BR already has too much section 8, then I would suggest getting rid of CATS
So North BR has a lot of poverty and you think the best solution is the eliminate the only means of conveyance for working poor who are trying to get out of it?
New Flash: the people who use the CATS busses are mostly honest people trying to get to their jobs, the doctor, the grocery store, etc. It's not criminals. I wouldn't want to be waiting on a CATS bus after I robbed the bank.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:17 am to H.M. Murdock
BR is the state capital and an industrial city. It is not a college town.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:19 am to Salmon
Industrial city like every other along the lower Mississippi River?
State Capital, ok, yes that is correct.
College town. It is. Folks do not move to BR, they leave when they graduate.
State Capital, ok, yes that is correct.
College town. It is. Folks do not move to BR, they leave when they graduate.
This post was edited on 5/7/14 at 8:20 am
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:20 am to H.M. Murdock
me and you have very much different definitions of college towns then
I think of college towns as the college is the only thing in the town. The town shuts down when the students leave.
I think of college towns as the college is the only thing in the town. The town shuts down when the students leave.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:22 am to H.M. Murdock
I put BR on par with Flint, Michigan.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:24 am to ZereauxSum
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Lots of people in BR dump all over Houston, ATL and Charlotte as LSU continues to export knowledge workers to these cities who build strong communities with good schools as EBRP schools continue to crumble. Some BR folk (especially in my family) are pretty delusional about the situation the city is in.
Again, I don't know anyone who bashes those cities.
And you're acting like those cities have awesome inner-city school systems. Maybe their suburbs do, but so do the BR suburbs.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:24 am to Willits479
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Baton Rouge is not a town driven by oil/production...it's driven by LSU, without that it wouldn't even be on the map.
It's the State's capitol. I'm pretty sure it would exist without LSU.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:25 am to urinetrouble
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Again, I don't know anyone who bashes those cities.
Houston is a concrete, no-culture wasteland per the OT
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:25 am to Salmon
College Station is a college town.
Athens is a college town.
Auburn is a college town.
Baton Rouge is not a college town.
Gainesville is not a college town.
Honolulu is not a college town.
Athens is a college town.
Auburn is a college town.
Baton Rouge is not a college town.
Gainesville is not a college town.
Honolulu is not a college town.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:27 am to BabyTac
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Outside of LSU, Baton Rouge is a mini Detroit.
Yea man, everything to the south and east is just completely run down. So much misery.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:27 am to theunknownknight
I remember when the Woodlands was still an experimental designed settlement in the early 80's, they were doing a lot of things ahead of their time. Is the dragon still in the pond\lake?
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:28 am to BabyTac
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Outside of LSU, Baton Rouge is a mini Detroit.
I mean, I get that BR isn't some Mecca of awesomeness but come on...
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:28 am to urinetrouble
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Again, I don't know anyone who bashes those cities.
Read this board?
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:28 am to Salmon
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me and you have very much different definitions of college towns then
I think of college towns as the college is the only thing in the town. The town shuts down when the students leave.
Ok per that definition you are correct. My point being, Baton Rouge has almost zero to offer in entertainment, dinning, and nightlife. Baton Rouge does offer LSU/LSU sports centered entertainment.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:28 am to theunknownknight
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:28 am to MadtownTiger
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But if you get rid of CATS, you can pretty much cut off N. BR from the South... to a degree. This is just mainly about causing an extreme inconvenience for them. You do that and you can start with something.
This might work but I'm always torn on public transit. It does a lot of good. Just don't know.
And I guess the main reason why I'm skeptical is because this is more like containment as opposed to turning the table. Poverty and crime are spreading to nicer areas of Baton Rouge because the riffraff are becoming a larger and larger slice of the pie. Middle and upper middle class people are leaving and the hoodlums are getting more entrenched.
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After that I think I would try and start pushing them out of area North of LSU.
Good luck with that ish. If I were in charge I'd have not a clue what to do about that. The bottom is a whole lot of terrible to try and take on.
This post was edited on 5/7/14 at 8:29 am
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:29 am to Willits479
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Baton Rouge is not a town driven by oil/production...
Wait, what?
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:30 am to JL
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Most of the woodlands is like the nice part of highland road and half the shopping centers are like perkins row.
So, living in a mall? Is that the watermark?
BR doesn't need more malls occupied by out of state corporations, and stucco houses. It needs to give a shite, and fix up what it has, and yes, invest in it's downtown and city, but personally. We don't have to wait on an investment firm to come to town. We can do this right now, and it starts with just taking a personal interest and valuing the place. Cutting the grass, picking up litter, stop littering, pressure washing, painting your buildings and houses, tearing down garbage falling in upon itself. Building sound timeless architecture in the low density areas of our own downtown and parts of mid city, and in getting our minds around the concept of something like a rail system that can support it and bring it all together as one community.
We need to stop being impressed with a facade of a community like PR represents with phony store fronts, and actually start being a real community. We need to stop selling out to the highest outside investor, and national chain, and start taking ownership of our own city where we live. We need to stop getting giddy when the next chain restaurant arrives and start buying into the concept of our own food, thus having our own sense of ourselves and identity, and this comes from supporting the locals, US.
Who presently owns Baton Rouge? Just take a look at what occupies the majority of our real estate and most valuable real estate at that, and it will tell you exactly who owns Baton Rouge. It's not Baton Rougeans, and that may be the case with most other places we see around this area of the country, but it is also why, like them, has nothing special to it, just like every other run of the mill chain addicted city or town, and why Baton Rouge often seems to be indifferent to Baton Rouge, because it isn't even owned by Baton Rougeans anymore.
Posted on 5/7/14 at 8:30 am to H.M. Murdock
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Baton Rouge has almost zero to offer in entertainment, dinning, and nightlife.
Wow.
Hyperbole much?
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