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re: Is Tuscaloosa really this bad?

Posted on 8/4/20 at 1:29 pm to
Posted by gamecockman12
Columbia, SC
Member since Aug 2012
6986 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 1:29 pm to
Have a downvote. Horrible list.
Posted by everytrueson
Los Angeles
Member since Mar 2012
6510 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 1:29 pm to
Moral of this thread:

More of you need to visit COMO. I have been to most SEC stadiums/towns and have enjoyed myself immensely. People have been friendly and the game day atmospheres were good.

Columbia, MO is a great college town. Put on your parkas and join us for a hot chocolate.
Posted by Irons Puppet
Birmingham
Member since Jun 2009
25901 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 1:31 pm to
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It’s not just Tuscaloosa, it’s the whole state that is that bad.


I haven't seen the Beaches and Mountains of Louisiana, are they a nice place to spend a vacation ? I have in Alabama.
This post was edited on 8/4/20 at 1:32 pm
Posted by TheJimBrown7
Member since Mar 2017
663 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 1:58 pm to
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The Athens MSA is about 200k. The Fayetteville MSA is around 600k


Thanks, guy. Notice I said night life and bar attractions. Not total population of the surrounding areas and metropolitan cities. Go take a lap.
Posted by redfish99
B.R.
Member since Aug 2007
17073 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 2:47 pm to
Campus is great. Town around it is just garbage.
Posted by turnpiketiger
Southeast Texas
Member since May 2020
10319 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:03 pm to
quote:

It’s not just Tuscaloosa, it’s the whole state that is that bad.


You hate an entire state because you hate a football team from there? Talk about closed minded. Alabama is a pretty decent state actually.
Posted by Ponchy Tiger
Ponchatoula
Member since Aug 2004
46362 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:09 pm to
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Well, Tuscaloosa does have dumbass for a mayor.


Baton Rouge says: Hold my beer, watch this.
Posted by InGAButLoveBama
Member since Jan 2018
924 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:26 pm to
Tuscaloosa's downtown is much improved from when I was going to school at Bama. I love the fine dining and the clubs there. Nice hotels as well. Right next to the Black Warrior, and a brisk walk to campus.
Posted by WilliamTaylor21
4035 Vanderbilt Lane
Member since Dec 2013
36531 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:33 pm to
TuscaLousy is awful.

I actually did a study on the city a few years back with my friend Joseph Goodman of AL.com (the top journalist in the state).

I asked 5,000 people what their favorite local restaurant was - and over 4,000 people said “Da HaRdeEs.”

That says it all imho.
This post was edited on 8/4/20 at 3:34 pm
Posted by MetryTyger
Metro NOLA, LA
Member since Jan 2004
15632 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:49 pm to
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kingbob

Is Tuscaloosa really this bad?
I can buy Auburn over Baton Rouge. Auburn is an adorable college town while Baton Rouge is a depressing crime-ridden shithole most resemblant of Biff’s evil 1985 from Back to the Future.






I beg to differ. Why dwell on the negative? Baton Rouge has had growing pains since Katrina, and its share of crime (mostly in North Baton Rouge), but I believe you're being monumentally simplistic and assuming in your exceedingly narrow-minded assessment.
It sounds like you CONCENTRATE only on the negative. There is so much positive that Baton Rouge has to offer....

Conventions, museums including Old State Capitol, U.S.S. Kidd, downtown business district, the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, the prosperous Port of Baton Rouge, historic Garden District, beautiful municipal parks, shopping, great restaurants, casinos and nightlife, and events,festivals,fairs, architecture, the Riverfront, historic sites etc. The city is growing to the south and east with new businesses, new technology, homes and economic growth.


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This post was edited on 8/4/20 at 3:57 pm
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
67710 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 3:59 pm to
Bruh, I live here, don’t try and sell me shite and tell me it’s shinola. Baton Rouge has a few bright spots, but it’s pretty f$&king depressing and has gone downhill RAPIDLY since 2016. That post-Katrina rebound is dead and going the wrong direction at near Zimbabwe speeds.

If one of BR’s worst neighborhoods wasn’t lying between campus and downtown and the garden district, it would be a much nicer place to live. Unfortunately, it’s hard to gentrify that much dangerous real estate when your economy is in the shitter due to complete government malfeasance.
This post was edited on 8/4/20 at 4:01 pm
Posted by Sun God
Member since Jul 2009
45421 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 4:03 pm to
I like living in BR. It’s definitely in the bottom half of SEC cities/towns though. Hoping some new leadership will start to turn things around a bit.
Posted by tkeefer
TX
Member since Apr 2004
1121 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 6:18 pm to
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The Fayetteville MSA includes multiple cities and counties that have nothing to do with the University & main campus. You can't collectively compare Rogers, Springdale, Bentonville, & Fayetteville, etc. to Athens. That's essentially comparing a section of a state to a single city.


The Fayetteville MSA includes three counties -- Washington, Benton and Madison.

The Athens MSA includes four counties -- Clarke, Madison, Oconee and Oglethorpe.
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