So long LC....Hello BR
 

Well, made the move today, tomorrow marks the first time in 18 years that I will not reside in Lake Charles. Start the new job Monday. New adventure for us.

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Congrats on the move and new adventure.

Congrats man!

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traffic SUCKS:rotfl:

Congrats man! Have fun

Goodluck!

Good Luck!! Praying everything works out for you & the family!

I'm sorry for your loss.

The fishing and the small town atmosphere in LC are really like nowhere else on earth. All the great outdoors stuff is so close, the food is awesome, and the folks are all friendly.

Baton Rouge was ok in the 1980s, but even then the really good food was more expensive and harder to find. Things gradually got worse (traffic, prices, crime, service) until 2005, when the Katrina refugees pushed the city off of the cliff.

Don't get me wrong, I'll take BR over any similarly sized city in the US, but it seems like Katrina brought many of the bad features of NO without the advantages, like the great food or the great service in the service industries.

Lmao, way to be suttle.

Thanks fellas, looking forward to it. Got a whole new place to learn for hunting and fishing.

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When you get feeling froggy, you gotta jump.
Good luck with your new position.

Now, MG, it's not polite or, politically correct to call them refugees. Jackson and, Sharpton made sure we all knew that!


Welcome to this side of the state, Smalls! I'm boiling shrimp in Gonzales tonight. If you and the family feel like making the short ride down, my family would be glad to have you over! It's only a 20 minute ride from BR.

Well I will say that, I am working in Baton Rouge, not living. We live in Prairieville. I love it aalready. Went for a walk this morning and all I could hear was birds. Spooked a rabbit, and saw a bunch of deer tracks. I think I can get used to this.

Plus, as far as losing anything by moving from LC, I don't see it that way. Still have family there, and making a lot more money so I can afford to go back and fish and hunt when I want to, and visit family. I would hardly consider LC small town though. Been other places I would love to live that are definitely more small town. LC isn't exactly perfect in terms of the things you said. I've watched the trash slowly expand and take over. Hardly a school you can put your kids over there that doesn't have the riff Raff.

Thanks for the invite southern, we will have to gget together sometime. We are actually heading to Gueydan for the duck festival tonite though.


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Please tell me what restaurants you are eating at. Its mostly mediocre chain restaurants here :help:

Congrats and good luck.

haha yea i wanna know too

Just finished a class for sql server and start another class next week here in BR. I haven't found a "good" place to eat here. Places to eat... yes. Good places to eat, NO. Boudreaux's Taco not too bad... finding most places are processed and are heat and eats.

I live in Prairieville to....Quail Creek subdivision which is off hwy 42 like you are going toward the Amite River....been here since 2002. There is really nothing to do in BR....crime is bad, housing is over priced and traffic sucks but it did get a little better between Essen and Highland since the construction is complete. At least in Prairieville the public schools are pretty good but I am still sending my kids to private school. Good luck. Send me a PM is you have any questions about the area.

It's not just the restaurants, it's the higher quality food in the local markets, especially the seafood (JTs and Holly Beach). But our favorite restaurants in SW LA are Seafood Palace and T-Boys. We also think that the Popeyes are better in LC than in BR. Popeyes are a family favorite for chains.

Ninfa's is the family favorite in BR.

My wife makes me buy four 32 oz yogurts from Counter Culture when I am in BR.... just saying.

BBQ > fire house bbq on hwy 16.
seafood> Parrain's Seafood , perkins road
Boudin / head cheese> Jerry lee's ,Greenwell springs road.(also good andoullie and tasso)
Old fashioned Burger> sharron's kitchen plank road ,brownsfield.
seafood buffet> la Fleur's seafood buffet
Chinese buffet> Central buffet

I love me some Jerry Lee's boudin. But you better get there early because once he runs out you have to wait until the next day..... Or that's how it used to be.

They don't usually run out now
had 3 links for brunch.

Welcome to TRAS HEY BaToN RoUgE.
The landlord that owns properties next to my properties is finally kicking out the cocane/crackheads.
Going to miss her 3 year old needing milk even though she can afford cigarettes.
Kid got diaper filled with you know what running down street by herself why her birth giver wants to beat up another girl on Heroin. The girl on Heroin who is having a baby by the crackhead birth givers boyfriend can fight so its a knock out drag out fight not scratch and claw contest. Get this the 3 year old baby daddy was also watching the fight also.

Then the Baton Rouge Kiddy Police finally making rounds show up not to break up the fight.
They are blocking their ability to drive down the street patrolling due to they are fighting in the street.
Way Way Way too funny!

TOO BAD YOU NOW CANNOT ENJOY THE SUNDAY AFTERNOON FIGHTS FOR FREE!
CANNOT ENJOY THE FRESH UNOPENDED BEER CANS ON SIDE OF STREET AFTER AN ALL NIGHT PARTY ON MON, TUE, WED, THURS, FRI, SAT, SUN.

IT'S SAD DAY WHEN SUNDAY AFTERNOON FIGHTS WILL BE OVER WITH!, I'M CRYING NOW!

WAY WAY TOO TOO FUNNY!

Oh yeah got to get the grape KoOL-aId out and remember when here a pop hit the ground to miss the bullets flying.

Thuggin It & lovin It Baton Rouge

Is moving not an option for you?

Where do u live in Br???????

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BR is a CH IT HOLE.......:work: PERIOD!!!

And the locals throw Sausage made in Canada in a pot of rice with water and act like it is CAJUN FOOD.....:shaking::help:

It must suck to be stuck in a place you hate and not have options.

Yes I have options.....this is why I live in Prairieville not trashy br....

Albasha on sherwood for greek and lebanese. Tsunami downtown for sushi.

I own property in North Sherwood area and if you combine everything I own outright the properties are worth $750,000.
Now the rental income I bring in is pure profit except for a little bit which I put away for repairs.
Live onsite and manage my places to not only keep them up, but keep Tras hey's out.
I also have my parents in a unit next to me and being that my father and mother have alot of friends who rent from us it is hard to sell out. Plus like yesterday dad had heart problems when I wasn't home his friend who rents from us took him to the hospital.
Any duplex area which is not as bad, condo area in Baton Rouge, or Apartment area is bad after Katrina. Section 8 destroyed this city.

Baton Rouge got to have thick skin and growing up in North Baton Rouge seeing how it was white and when first black family moved in it went down quick I learned at an early age to have thick skin.

Look at Jefferson hwy in 1990's it was good now its slid down the toilet. Newer homes by Springlake off Bluebonnet they are down road from Gardere and smell from sewage treatment plant. Oneal use to be nice then Milton Womack built St Jean Apartments in late 1990 or early 2000's. That place is as bad as area right by Belaire or little Vietnam. Even Vietnamese moved into Sherwood Forest and Broadmore to escape the section 8 people. By LSU you got South Baton Rouge which is colorful. Then you got fairfields blocks from Capital Heights where all young families or single people want to live. My old neighborhood was where whites went when judge Parker started desegregation due to it was outside the city limits. Stupid part is before that Baton Rouge schools were better than Livingston Parish and Ascension Parish Schools. Thanks NAACP and Judge Parker for white flight. The kool-aid drinkers will sooner or later move outside parish to nicer areas to destroy them once apartment complexes need to fill empty units with section 8 people. Now my friends dad has the grade koOL-Aid drinkers in his house looking for a smanwich and Koolz-Aid.

If you live in Baton Rouge unless you live in the Country Club of Louisiana you cannot escape the KoOL-Aidz drinkers. They are coming to destroy a nice neighborhood near you.
You can tell if they are coming when see your Wal-mart not being able to keep up with stocking grape Kool-aid packs and orange drinkz.

My oldest goes to MBS (most blessed sacrament) off old jefferson. It is amazing how in 8 years how that area around the school has went down.:work:

If its pure profit couldn't u hire a maintance man and move out of north Br with your parents?
I just bought a house to tear down ( for the land) off ingleside.... A baseballs throw from Valley Park... It's amazing what a 1/4 mile do to property values !!

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Not saying I don't believe you guys, but I could say the same thing about LC. I'm only 24, and I can say I've watched ggood areas and schools go bad in LC. Its unfortunate, but it happens. Yeah, I haven't been in the area long, but I like Prairieville. Yeah, traffic might suck, neighborhoods may suck, but I made the move for the job. For a chance to advance myself so that me and my wife can have the lives we want. In a few years, I'll be able to ggo where ever I want thanks to this job. Couldn't say that about where I was in LC.

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grew up in baton rouge, if you want some help on finding some good fishing areas that are close, send me a pm, I'll show you around. and if you need any help in general getting to know the area I can help you with that too.

Just brush the negativity off man. Some people just love to hate. Congrats on the new job oppurtnity and the chance to advance yourself and family in life.

Well said there are crap holes in every town, moving outside of BR offers some of the best areas in the state to live and have a family. Good luck Smalls

I've lived in Br for the past 10 years , I feel it's a great city and there is a lot of opportunity here. As far as restaurants not being good???? Those dudes are smoking crack ! There are a ton of good restaurants ( maybe just not in NORTH BR) . I live in the "south side" of Br around Perkins , great area around restaurants , shopping, interstate access ect

Some good places to eat up in the hood too. Just a different style of food and a different type of clientele.

Used to be a place called Silver Moon Cafe by some railroad tracks that was incredible. Basically in someone's house and everything they had was deep fried and/or smothered in gravy. Best hangover food ever

Ate there many times . After Many years of being by the tracks they tried to move the Moon to Chimes street to get the student buisiness and couldn't make a go of it.

I'm over that way quite a bit, could you be more specific?

My former boss's son owns a restaurant in south baton rouge. Mike Willie's or Willie's. Apparently its a pretty good seafood restaurant.

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Damn this thread yall had me watching gangsta videos from BR and NOLA last night, stacks, choppers, and projects...oh and hoes

Congratulations on the new job! Always exciting to start a new chapter in life.

Baton Rouge:
AKA Refinreyville; where the term "plant life" has nothing to do with botany.

Ruffinos, Parrins, Louisiana lainappe, does eat place, superior grill , Sammy's grill, George's, sushi yama, maxwells market , bistro byronz, beausolieu, jubans....... None serve hardhead though so you might not like it :rotfl:

I've eaten at Parrain's, Georges and Sammys all within the last week.

Parrain's is my favorite seafood place in BR without a doubt!!

Sammys is excellent but very very busy.

George's Southside has one of the best muffalattas I have ever had.

Also ate at Fat Cow on Highland and the food was very good

Looks like Parrin's is close by, I'll give it a try tonight.

And on Saturdays go to fresh market on Perkins ... 2 lobster tails for 11$ n throw them on the grill