re: Folks here love shitting on Shreveport.

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Crime can be an issue, like everywhere else, but the criminals mostly stay on their side of I-49,

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Not any more.

I had a completely different experience when I was up there a month ago. They city and neighborhoods look run downed. It was so sad to see the place I grew up looking so seedy and sad.

The combined Shreveport skyline and Bossier casino skyline looks pretty awesome driving in on I-20 west at night.

Shreveport has a great road system. Interstate 49 from I-20 to the industrial loop is the best, highest quality, and properly planned stretch of interstate in Louisiana.

But Shreveport is still a crime shithole.

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ep, that Red River keeps Bossier folks from crossing over to Shreveport, I guess.

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I know you're joking, but it does. Bossier residents are a WEIRD bunch. Most of them I know have a strange superiority complex and make it seem like crossing that river brings them from the Woodlands to a 3rd world country. I have on friend who posts things like, "making the trip all the way to Shreveport to watch my kid play soccer...worth it I guess."

A ton I know spend their life eating at fricking Beaujax and drinking at flying heart cause they never want to cross into Shreveport....nothing makes me laugh harder than that local quirk

An old buddy of mine who lives in BR had this conversation recently. I asked him besides LSU, what's something that Baton Rouge has that Shreveport doesn't? Now we know there's a few things. My point is if you have a family and are in the few lines of work that you can be successful in Shreveport is not near as bad when compared to other cities in Louisiana.

Cross Lake is easy to get to
Norton Art Gallery is always having awesome movie nights and family functions
Aquarium
The Revel, Mudbug Madness
Municipal Auditorium draws cool musicians b/c of it's history
Multiple farmers markets
2 Breweries
Growing food truck scene
We have a few really good restaurants that have popped up in the past few years (Fat Calf, Zuzul, Ki Mexico)
Unless there's a wreck no traffic issues
Very good public school options
3 hours from BR, Hot Springs, and Dallas

Does the grass need to be cut and trash picked up. Hell yes, but that's all over the state.

Shreveport has a loop.
That makes it better than Barren Rudge.

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Most of them I know have a strange superiority complex and make it seem like crossing that river brings them from the Woodlands to a 3rd world country.

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Nah, my old friends post pictures of themselves in Shreveport every night. shite, many work there.

But you're right on one thing, it's changed quite a bit. Since the central area for bars (the square) disappeared there really isn't much to cross the river for, besides some food, maybe.

Here’s the general consensus of the OT when considering life in a Louisiana metro area:



Imo, Shreveport is probably on a par with Lafayette as family-friendly.

New Orleans is a horribly mixed-bag, even having money doesn’t cure some of its warts. But it would make it do-able.

Baton Rouge is behind that, without LSU being there it would be untenable.

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North Bossier > Shreveport. By a mile. Shreveport is dying, and its not slow. Bossier probably will follow suit soon enough.

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I agree. But all the shite they're currently building and going to build between I-220 and Benton along Airline and Hwy 3 will make getting from N. Bossier to town nearly impossible. Fricking government only sees and increase potential property and sales taxes.

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I agree. But all the shite they're currently building and going to build between I-220 and Benton along Airline and Hwy 3 will make getting from N. Bossier to town nearly impossible.

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N. Bossier Traffic is pathetic. They had years to manage that growth and dropped the ball.

I was there!