IS BR the new NOLA

[mhounit]

Every time Baton Rouge and New Orleans are mentioned in the same thread , it turns out like this .

[tulanejo]

Originally Posted by rcp11889

Being a college town, state capital, and "newer" city are things that baton rouge and austin have in common but that's about it. The residents of both cities are entirely different.

BR does not in any way have better shopping than NOLA. You are just naming the shopping centers. New Orleans has Magazine Street, a 6 mile long street with local boutiques, vintage stores, antique stores etc. The French Quarter: lots and lots of stores no need to go further. Canal Place: Saks, Brooks Brothers, Michael Kors, and more. Not to mention long mainstays of luxury shopping in New Orleans like Royal Street with its art galleries (one of the most expensive shopping streets in the country), Adler's (very fine jewelry), Rubernstein's (both of these last stores are ON canal street. Not to mention the various other shopping corridors in the city: Oak street, the warehouse district, harrison avenue in lakeview. Not to mention the retail in Metairie and Jefferson Parish.

Believe it or not, BR also has local boutiques, vintage stores, antique stores, etc. I'm pretty sure all cities have them. Another benefit in BR is getting your shopping done in one place (e.g. Mall of LA with 200+ stores, Perkins Rowe and the High Grove (completion expected in 2013), both next door to the mall. I actually heard of Adler's, which also is in BR. Government Street is known particularly for boutique stores. In New Orleans, shopping seems to be very scattered. Lakeside mall is nowhere close to the Shops at Canal; they are in two different cities (Metairie and NO respectively). I would hate to drive between these two shopping centers to do my shopping.

[Neworleansisprettygood]

Originally Posted by tulanejo

Lakeside mall is nowhere close to the Shops at Canal; they are in two different cities (Metairie and NO respectively). I would hate to drive between these two shopping centers to do my shopping.

mod snip Bigger cities tend to have their shopping spread over a larger area. Duh.

[rcp11889]

Originally Posted by tulanejo

Believe it or not, BR also has local boutiques, vintage stores, antique stores, etc. I'm pretty sure all cities have them. Another benefit in BR is getting your shopping done in one place (e.g. Mall of LA with 200+ stores, Perkins Rowe and the High Grove (completion expected in 2013), both next door to the mall. I actually heard of Adler's, which also is in BR. Government Street is known particularly for boutique stores. In New Orleans, shopping seems to be very scattered. Lakeside mall is nowhere close to the Shops at Canal; they are in two different cities (Metairie and NO respectively). I would hate to drive between these two shopping centers to do my shopping.

I'm not saying BR doesnt have local boutiques or vintage stores. I lived in BR for 4 years and have been to many of the vintage and local stores in the city. However, places like government street and perkins rowe are absolutely incomparable to new orleans. New Orleans has hundreds and hundreds of stores. New Orleans has one of the best independent shopping scenes in the country. You can walk to like 5 different clothing stores (not to mention any other kind of establishment) in one block on magazine street, which by the way the street is like 80 blocks long. that is not possible in BR. and also, shopping in the city is a completely different demographic than in metairie. so we have two good malls? that makes it bad shopping?

[tulanejo]

Originally Posted by rcp11889

I'm not saying BR doesnt have local boutiques or vintage stores. I lived in BR for 4 years and have been to many of the vintage and local stores in the city. However, places like government street and perkins rowe are absolutely incomparable to new orleans. New Orleans has hundreds and hundreds of stores. New Orleans has one of the best independent shopping scenes in the country. You can walk to like 5 different clothing stores (not to mention any other kind of establishment) in one block on magazine street, which by the way the street is like 80 blocks long. that is not possible in BR. and also, shopping in the city is a completely different demographic than in metairie. so we have two good malls? that makes it bad shopping?

Never said it was bad shopping. I would rather prefer to shop in one central area and I consider NO separate from Metairie.

[Neworleansisprettygood]

Originally Posted by tulanejo

Never said it was bad shopping. I would rather prefer to shop in one central area and I consider NO separate from Metairie.

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So tell me, is it a short walk from this Valhalla of shopping that is downtown BR to the Mall of Louisiana? I hear you can practically spit on the Bass Pro Shop from Spanish Town.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by tulanejo

Believe it or not, BR also has local boutiques, vintage stores, antique stores, etc. I'm pretty sure all cities have them. Another benefit in BR is getting your shopping done in one place (e.g. Mall of LA with 200+ stores, Perkins Rowe and the High Grove (completion expected in 2013), both next door to the mall. I actually heard of Adler's, which also is in BR. Government Street is known particularly for boutique stores. In New Orleans, shopping seems to be very scattered. Lakeside mall is nowhere close to the Shops at Canal; they are in two different cities (Metairie and NO respectively). I would hate to drive between these two shopping centers to do my shopping.

Not in the volume or quality that New Orleans has, I haven't seen many Ansel Adams original prints in Baton Rouge. Government Street is a joke even to Julia St in the Warehouse district. Shopping is scattered in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, that's how all cities are. Although you don't need a car to do everything in New Orleans. Malls and shopping centers are not the ideal way of shopping in New Orleans, in Baton Rouge and Metairie they are.