TOP 10 reasons why I left BATON ROGUE. (New Orleans, Baton Rouge: neighborhood, school)

[nubianbrotha]

Originally Posted by MStant1

I just graduated in May. I decided not to stay in BR after graduation for the reason listed above...lack of job opportunities. I am from Lake Charles originally....which may explain why I don't think Baton Rouge is that bad of a town. If you want to live in a truly dead hole town then try living in Lake Charles.

It's not that I am anti northeast (obviously since I am moving to NYC in 3 weeks) I just don't think Baton Rouge is that bad of a mid-size town especially for Louisiana.

Also could part of the reason you don't like BR be because you grew up and went to school in one of the worst and crime ridden parts of the city?

I was fine with your response untill i read the last line of your statement. What is this perception that North Baton Rouge is more crime ridden...I think there is some other underlying message there.Race! I was safe in my Community growing up. MY school was a great public school. There isn;t a zip code,sub division , or cul de sac that is immunne to the issues of the world. But being from LC maybe you wouldn't know the depht of past and current BR. Have you ever ventured into a working class N BR working class community to know you don't have to lock your doors when driving or tuck your purse under your arm when walking around. LOL..
ONE BR PEOPLE ..PLease,until this happens ,there will be now progress...

[Sam I Am]

MODERATOR (in blue):

All -

Please, we are not going to turn this thread into a racial thing or a sexual preference thing or a school thing. I think we can all agree that nowhere is immune, but some places in the world are safer than others.

It is fine to state your reasons for leaving or staying...not so fine to continue harping on the same topics, or reading something into a statement by any poster.

Let's keep this one between the lines, shall we? Thank you!

Sam

[MetroBTR]

I agree with Sam, there is no place where crime can't happen, but statistics don't lie.

[MStant1]

Originally Posted by nubianbrotha

I was fine with your response untill i read the last line of your statement. What is this perception that North Baton Rouge is more crime ridden...I think there is some other underlying message there.Race! I was safe in my Community growing up. MY school was a great public school. There isn;t a zip code,sub division , or cul de sac that is immunne to the issues of the world. But being from LC maybe you wouldn't know the depht of past and current BR. Have you ever ventured into a working class N BR working class community to know you don't have to lock your doors when driving or tuck your purse under your arm when walking around. LOL..
ONE BR PEOPLE ..PLease,until this happens ,there will be now progress...

No where in my post did I insinuate that it was a race issue. Perhaps this was your problem with Baton Rouge all along (I know this is theory 1000 on why you might hate BR) you make something out to be a race or sexual thing when it never was intended to be. I was simply stating a fact that North Baton Rouge is where the majority of the city's crime occurs. I could care less what race lives there...facts are facts. I apologize that you took offense to such an innocuous statement.

[nubianbrotha]

Originally Posted by MStant1

(I know this is theory 1000 on why you might hate BR) you make something out to be a race or sexual thing when it never was intended to be. .

You ever been a Black Gay man? Try being that in a community that doesnt always make you feel comfortable.
Some of my points in my original posting , were not relative to only Black and Gays , but to Single adults looking for a happy life in a Family minded town. A conservative town that lacks the total package.
I've witness that by posting my origianl posting.I have reached at least one considering what I have and there are probablly are those who have read and not posted.
This is my "View"

[Sam I Am]

And stated to the max...but almost half of your postings have referred to being black and gay and unhappy in BR - therefore, on the other side of the fence, it appears that you didn't feel at home in BR because of this...am I incorrect? That's the great thing about America - there's something for everyone. Doesn't work for you? Move - and you did, and you're happy with the outcome, but that doesn't mean everyone in Baton Rouge is backward because they haven't become enlightened enough to leave!

Baton Rouge is conservative...check.
Baton Rouge may not be the hot spot of the nation...check.
Baton Rouge's location doesn't work for you...check.
No transportation system...check.
Neighborhoods and morale...not so check. There's people living there, no huge exodus, so it works for a quarter of a million people - you might be off the mark on that one.
The weather, which no one can do anything about.

So what's left? Haven't we covered everything?

[nubianbrotha]

[quote=Sam I Am;4681401]

Neighborhoods and morale...not so check. There's people living there, no huge exodus, so it works for a quarter of a million people - you might be off the mark on that one.
The "Greater Baton Rouge Business Report" did a story a few days ago about the Shrinking city of BR. I think it lost more people at a greater rate last year than all cities but one last year.

[BRMan]

[quote=nubianbrotha;4681505]

Originally Posted by Sam I Am

Neighborhoods and morale...not so check. There's people living there, no huge exodus, so it works for a quarter of a million people - you might be off the mark on that one.
The "Greater Baton Rouge Business Report" did a story a few days ago about the Shrinking city of BR. I think it lost more people at a greater rate last year than all cities but one last year.

Perhaps the CITY LIMITS of Baton Rouge, but not the Metro area. Metro BR has always grown. And to those who think it's this stifling conservative town, I read the other day that the metro area has a higher percentage of blacks than anywhere except perhaps Memphis.

Bottom line: Baton Rouge is a diverse town. It leans conservative, but not overwhelmingly so. And it has a mixture of academia and industry. Its chief disadvantages are the subtropical humid weather and the fact it's in Louisiana, where you have a lot of apathetic people who are used to accepting life as it is. But you take the good with the less desirable. BR is NOT a bad place to live.

[darylwi]

Jackson, Miss is losing a lot of people to their suburbs. That city had 220K when I was a kid and it's under 200K now according to a news story I read in a Mississippi paper just last weekend.
And everyone in and around Jackson acknowledges it.
Don't act like Baton Rouge is this huge anomaly.
According to City Data census numbers, D.C. lost 5.7% of its population between 1990 and 2000. And it lost another 10K residents between 2000 and 2003 while it's metropolitan area grew steadily. Is that a huge shock? Shouldn't be. Americans have been moving to the suburbs since the end of WWII and the advent of the freeway. It'll take rising gas prices to get them back into the cities to stay.

[nubianbrotha]

[quote=BRMan;4681597]

Originally Posted by nubianbrotha

I read the other day that the metro area has a higher percentage of blacks than anywhere except perhaps Memphis.

Bottom line: Baton Rouge is a diverse town. It leans conservative, but not overwhelmingly so. And it has a mixture of academia and industry. Its chief disadvantages are the subtropical humid weather and the fact it's in Louisiana, where you have a lot of apathetic people who are used to accepting life as it is. But you take the good with the less desirable. BR is NOT a bad place to live.

Where did yo read this Black pop. fact?? More the NYC,D.C.ATL,H-town???
or where they speaking ouf the southern states?

I think agitating people is one way to move then towards change, maybe people need to be pushed .

PS. SamIAM is Pro BR...lol