Monroe-haters

[Fensterkind]

Originally Posted by LSU Tiger Z71

Shabby and run-down? No. Its not. I'm sorry that Lakeshore is dying.. Monroe is not. Jobs are now plentiful.

Anyone looking at the page for Monroe on City Data can see that this statement isn't supported by the facts. If jobs are plentiful, why is the unemployment rate listed there as 12.8% for citizens 25 and over? If so many people are gainfully employed, why is the percentage of people with income below the poverty level listed as 32.3%? Booming economies produce rising populations, yet Monroe has had a 3.6% decline in residents since 2000. No, there's nothing to support your assertion.

As for the town not being shabby and run - down, all anybody has to do is look at the photos submitted for Monroe to see what it looks like. Some neighborhoods are nice, but you often have to drive through squalor to get to them.

[Fensterkind]

Originally Posted by LSU Tiger Z71

I talked to my friend who lives near Lakeshore Elementary and he knows nothing of what you're talking about.. He's lived there a LONG time as well.

I can only assume then that he thinks Lakeshore is supposed to smell like that.

[LSU Tiger Z71]

Originally Posted by Fensterkind

I can only assume then that he thinks Lakeshore is supposed to smell like that.

[LOUISIANA'SLEGEND]

Lol, wow. Shout out to a person like Fensterfind to resurrect the single most important thing that happen to this site sense colored fonts, Da Legend. Monroe, Monroe, Monroe, are we still hating on the magnificient, magnetic attractivness on Might Monroe, LA? Haven't I placed Monroe in a bag of powdered margerine and put it in your skeptical microwaves and still made it pop? Not to mention in the process making it buttery? It very popular to hate something that you once didnt care about, not because you hated it, but because it was a style to dislike something that did you wonders. Who didnt want to live in Lakeshore and have a lake for a back yard? Who didnt want to be a big shot in the historic district in the beautiful Garden District, what about Town and Country, and Swartz? What about the New elite neighborhoods like Finks Hideaway, Frenchmen Bend, and Cypress Point? I been gone for a lil while, away from this site and people are still looking at stats for support that have been proven inaccurate over and over again, the city of New Orleans is a perfect example of inaccurate stats like crime rate, population, and employment. I live here in Monroe and make a living so how can you speak against my word anyway. Are you people calling me a liar, you think I cant be bias or something? I call it what it is, just with an optimistic and postive outlook of my city. You say trashy Monroe, I'll match in opposite and show you a classy Monroe. I invested countless hours in promoting all the good that Monroe has to offer to let any of you try and Monroe-hate. Jobs AREplentiful again, progress IS being achieve through different outlets of education with all the secondary and career schools around town, including the construction of the bigger Delta Community College. How dare you point out a slight flaw in monroe like foul smells thinking it would change the minds of potential tourists and residents, thats just like saying dont go to LSU because they had serial killers, rapist, and crime all over campus in the past. Another example is dont live in New Orleans because of the murder capital of the nation. People know this stuff but why are positives still coming out of BR and NO, its because the emphasis is on the positive overall outlook, which keep making people come back and continue to move there.

So no reason to hate, didnt work for you, oh well move to Cheyenne, Wyoming. I bet there unemployment rate is extremely low considering the fact that "many" people live there.

[SacalaitWhisperer]

I've been to Wyoming.

Not really the kind of place to move for a job.

West Monroe, people... WEST Monroe!!

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That smell on Lakeshore Dr is par for the course.

[LOUISIANA'SLEGEND]

Originally Posted by SacalaitWhisperer

I've been to Wyoming.

Not really the kind of place to move for a job.

West Monroe, people... WEST Monroe!!

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That smell on Lakeshore Dr is par for the course.

Oh please even if, "if" the myth is true that Monroe has an foul smell, then trust and believe West Monroe has the major funk of the area. That mill is the king of stankery. Monroe people, Monroe! More jobs, more indepedent restaurants(not chains), more history, has a real downtown not an historic alley. Only a certain peoples can live in West Monroe, but Monroe everyone can live in Monroe without getting ran out like they can in West Monroe.

Look at it this way Monroe is to New Orleans as Gretna is to West Monroe......catch my drift? St. Louis/East St. Louis? Before you can talk West Monroe to have to at least become Oakland to our San Francisco, instead of being Port Allen to our Baton Rouge. West Monroe, your our scape goat, a change of scenery close by thats it. Alot of chain restaurants, cute, a Tinseltown, yea. Still no public transportation, no major events, jobs outside the mill and your High School is your only highlight. West Monroe you are just an extension of Monroe with a west in front of you. We only come over there to take pics of our dowtown. But thanks for employing me because i work over there, but you still stank.

But I love you my little West Monroe, your growning up, but you nose is still running and so is your mill with makes you skunky!!