re: Post your favorite 5-6 photos of the city in which your University resides

quote:

---

PAGatorPost your favorite 5-6 photos of the city in which your University resides by PAGator LINK

---

Oh, cool!
How did a swamp lizard from Pennsylvania end up going to school in Kabul ???????????

Interesting.

I know. I was too.

But I think you have Baton Rouge all wrong.

Most of its crime and bad areas are in Scotlandville - north of BR.
Baton Rouge actually has quite a lot going for it.

Its economy is one of the best in the South, it has a very busy downtown/financial sector, some of the most beautiful municipal parks, golf courses and zoos in the country, great historical districts, wonderful museums like the USS Kidd WWII battleship memorial and the Old State Capital museum, gorgeous State Capital grounds, bustling retail, music, restaurant, casino, and tourism industries, national attractions like the Miss USA Beauty Pageant (for the last 2 years), the National Hot Air Balloon show and competition, the Mall of Louisiana, beautiful gated communities and subdivisions, not to mention the gorgeous campus at LSU.
It is also the largest city in Louisiana.

LINK /

I know it's not a dump. I just don't like the huge city feel of it. But LSU's location is so far from downtown, it doesn't have the South Carolina or Tennessee feel to it: where at times you don't even know if you're on campus. I also had no idea Baton Rouge was the biggest within the city limits. Over 200k more than New Orleans, although the NOLA metro is bigger.

I live in CStat now but I'm going to do Columbia since it hasn't be done yet.. not to include campus / stadium pics.

quote:

---

PAGatorPost your favorite 5-6 photos of the city in which your University resides by PAGatorI know it's not a dump. I just don't like the huge city feel of it. But LSU's location is so far from downtown, it doesn't have the South Carolina or Tennessee feel to it: where at times you don't even know if you're on campus. I also had no idea Baton Rouge was the biggest within the city limits. Over 200k more than New Orleans, although the NOLA metro is bigger.

---

Ok this I agree with. It's all in each person's preferences. It is within a 5 minute ride to downtown on Nicholson Drive though.
Now that you mention it, a huge renovation and rebuilding of the Nicholson Drive Corrider from Walk-On's near campus to the Capital and Downtown area will start in the near future.

LINK

LINK

Wait, is it really called "Gay Street"?

The 350+ year old burr oak south of Columbia: during the flood of '93 it stood in about nine feet of water for close to a month.

https://jpgmag.com/photos/1280457

I'm not arguing that your subdivisions and/or gated communities are not themselves attractive. I'm laughing at the fact that nouveau riche McMansions are what you're selling.

Edit to add: the was kind of harsh, and the original comment was meant to be more in good fun. I'll just say different strokes for different folks.

quote:

---

don't know of anyone else to call Gainesville a shite hole. Yeah, it's not Princeton or Oxford (and nowhere near State College for that matter), but it's not terrible. It's just an incredibly average town

---

what does State College and Oxford have that Gainesville doesn't?

Charm for one