Future Triple City Region

[LOUISIANA'SLEGEND]

Originally Posted by hdwell

Give anhyting to see a JITB over here again in Shreveport. Never known a bunch of people anywhere more stuck on McDonalls and Barger Kang

Awww hdwell, why you gotta make us look even worse up here. Now they gonna tbink all we know is chain restaurants and uncultural food. There are good independent cutural food in the SBC. Many in Monroe.........not West Monroe whose going for a chain restaurant heaven.

Back to the subject........under a microscope of course there's differences in the "Pontraplex". say if you came to my area, Northeast Louisiana. I can say Monroe is the hottest city with alotta water, West Monroe has a stinky paper mill with a bunch of chain restaurant in one area, Calhoun is hilly, Bastrop is the boondocks.....etc....

An outsider would combine all of this and just say we just country.

Its normal to be precise if you live there, but others will think in general about the area. Trust me I know, I'm ready at all times to go off about my town, but ill be general, unless I'm called out

[annie_himself]

What would you say about the Pontraplex.

[MetroBTR]

Originally Posted by WestbankNOLA

What I'm saying is there is no way, unless you really have a short attention span, that you can not ride through all 3 and not know that you are in 3 different places.

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Southshore feels looks/feels like a pancake, even though it isn't. Save for levees, even man-made embankments are few and inbetween. There are few hardwood trees and cypress, live oak, and palm dominate.

Northshore gradually elevates, maybe barely noticeable, but there are pine trees everywhere and a lot of other tall trees. It looks like places on the eastern half of the gulf, while BR and NO look more like the western half.

BR, is more subjective, but it has a more inland fill to me. They also have those bluffs here and there closer to the river and the trees are different than on this end.

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I go hard on details so maybe it's just me who notices such things, but I just can't see how they are "all the same".

I'm going to agree with you on this. I feel like i'm in different places based on the landscape. Baton Rouge has more variation in topography. Some areas feel a little bit like New Orleans, but overall, the vegetation is much different. I find there is a larger variation of old growth trees in Baton Rouge than in New Orleans. We have live Oaks, too, but New Orleans has more of them. Water Oaks are the most common type of oak in Baton Rouge.

[LOUISIANA'SLEGEND]

Originally Posted by annie_himself

What would you say about the Pontraplex.

Swampy, high culture, confident, easygoing, and delicious.

[annie_himself]

Sounds right to me!