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re: Why is Shreveport dying?
Posted on 4/6/19 at 7:08 pm to Mrmongols7
Posted on 4/6/19 at 7:08 pm to Mrmongols7
I grew up in Shreveport and lived there until I was 27. I saw professional opportunities dwindle and decided I had enough. I moved away and never looked back. I don’t even have a desire to go back and visit. It died b/c it did not embrace its young professional population. It shat upon its lifegivers and educated young professionals.
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Posted on 4/6/19 at 7:13 pm to Mrmongols7
I used to live within easy driving distance from Shrevesburg. For some reason it gave me the creeps. It seemed barren in a way and had no clear identity to me. I did have some good friends there at one time, and I dated a couple of hot girls from there.
So it wasn't all bad.
I don't know what its current issues may be. Perhaps its location is a detriment.
So it wasn't all bad.
I don't know what its current issues may be. Perhaps its location is a detriment.
Posted on 4/6/19 at 7:20 pm to Mrmongols7
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Why is Bossier different??
Citizens, not system
Posted on 4/6/19 at 7:21 pm to Magician2
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but the stringent religious baptist blocked off any types of progress for the music scene.
Blatantly false
Posted on 4/6/19 at 7:23 pm to stout
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Except it grew nearly 14% in the decade between 70 and 80?
South shreveport, downtown and the urban core died. Professionals moved to Dallas, the city started to die. Poor people outbred everyone else.
This post was edited on 4/6/19 at 7:37 pm
Posted on 4/6/19 at 7:42 pm to Mrmongols7
It began to die after Pennzoil, United Gas, Texas Eastern etc. moved out in the mid-1970s. The halcyon era for Shreveport was between 1950 to 1975, and the population increased from 127 K to about 200 K, or more than it is today.
Today's Shreveport is not unlike Jackson, Birmingham, even Flint, Michigan. It's just a skeleton of what once was a vibrant city.
Today's Shreveport is not unlike Jackson, Birmingham, even Flint, Michigan. It's just a skeleton of what once was a vibrant city.
Posted on 4/6/19 at 7:54 pm to VOR
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I don't know what its current issues may be. Perhaps its location is a detriment.
Another overarching issue is the probable lack of the type of industry and career opportunities that attract a younger, more "sophisticated" population. These are the peeps that would be upstarting festivals galore for everything known to man. And all sorts of other social functions and charity events. That would make people more likely to invest in their surroundings...a lively environment. Perhaps if there were some larger companies in Shreveport that lured these "sophisticated" types in good numbers, you'd see a real estate boom downtown with every inch of old building bought up and turned to either coffee shop or loft. Or juice bar. IMO it starts with downtowns, and it's downtown is cool, or certainly has good bones at the very least, but could certainly use a booster shot of liveliness and a good fixin' up.
For instance I wonder what a CenturyLink would do for Shreveport.
Posted on 4/6/19 at 7:56 pm to VOR
Shreveville really gives me the creeps even though I spent most of my first 18 years there. It's almost surreal how much of Southern Hills and Summer Grove resemble a ghost town w/ thousands of homes but no observable population. And Werner Park, Caddo Heights, Ingleside, Queensborough etc. have become wretched ghetto areas no longer safe to drive through.
This post was edited on 4/6/19 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 4/6/19 at 7:58 pm to tarzana
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s almost surreal how much of Southern Hills and Summer Grove resemble a ghost town will thousands of homes but no observable population. And Werner Park, Caddo Heights, Ingleside, Queensborough etc. have become wretched ghetto areas no longer safe to drive through.
Pretty much the entire urban core, minus a couple of neighborhoods.
This post was edited on 4/6/19 at 7:58 pm
Posted on 4/6/19 at 8:09 pm to Captain Rumbeard
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and did what everyone else with a brain has done and moved to Benton.
Posted on 4/6/19 at 8:33 pm to GeauxGutsy
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but if you can’t admit Shreveport is dying a slow painful death and has been for some time you are delusional
Clueless. I've lived here almost 4 decades and I know what real decline here has looked like and I also know what's been going on to improve things in recent years. Yours are the same complaints made by those that don't know and don't care to know; apathetc, ignorant, unsupportive, and unwilling to do anything but complain.
Posted on 4/6/19 at 8:51 pm to Salmon
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SE Shreveport is a fine place to live
Mostly centred round LSU-S. It's a nice campus, almost an LSU-Baton Rouge, but without a football team.
Posted on 4/6/19 at 8:54 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Seems like the 2009-2012 hype of cyber command and Haynesville Shale has quieted down a considerable amount.
Posted on 4/6/19 at 9:01 pm to Zach
quote:These republicans are trying to raise property taxes by a substantial amount.
The biggest difference between the two parishes is the central offices and school boards. Bossier is run by republicans. Staff is very small and very efficient.
Posted on 4/6/19 at 9:01 pm to indianswim
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It’s always been a shithole.
This is absolutely not true.. In the 60's and early 70's Shreveport/Bossier had the best education system in the State. Growing economically and the future was beginning to look very promising..
The events that have lead us to where we are now is complex and would take too long to explain...
Posted on 4/6/19 at 9:02 pm to Paul Allen
There's a little drilling going on baw.
Posted on 4/6/19 at 9:54 pm to Paul Allen
Cyber Command didn't come, but the infrastructure they bought to draw it here is still here. And that's why there's actually a shitload of people here working for places like Macdonald Douglas and other big scary groups in the cyber realm. I worked at the space ship out on I-20 at one point. You'd be surprised who's here. Proximity to Barksdale is a good thing. A building designed to fight top end attempts to surveil it on a backbone of the internet with it's own uninterruptible power supply and connection makes it real attractive to put places like Mac D on that campus.
That shite's in downtown Shreveport as well but it's not being advertised. Bossier is what made that happen. Shreveport would have sat around with their thumb up their asses forever about it since there's not an ebonics for HaXXors yet apparently.
That shite's in downtown Shreveport as well but it's not being advertised. Bossier is what made that happen. Shreveport would have sat around with their thumb up their asses forever about it since there's not an ebonics for HaXXors yet apparently.
Posted on 4/6/19 at 10:12 pm to tarzana
I used to live in Shrevesvegas. It died because it wanted to be Texas. So everyone worth a damn moved to Texas.
This post was edited on 4/6/19 at 10:13 pm
Posted on 4/6/19 at 10:18 pm to Mrmongols7
Wait, it was ever living?
Posted on 4/6/19 at 10:21 pm to Ancient Astronaut
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it wanted to be in Texas
That's so true. We always felt a kinship with East Texas, and supported the Cowboys and never cared a whit about the Saints or anything associated with New Orleans. That was a foreign country in my upbringing.
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