TiffanyPinkDog

I love Baton Rouge and I would totally move back. Those who said LSU is the heart of BRare right; if you don’t like college towns, this is the wrong place for you.

But if you DO like college towns, this is one that will definitely keep you feeling young. I miss BR.

Carrollton is a fine little town to live in, but there’s not a lot going on. As far as VISITING here? I don’t know why you would, unless you were coming to see family or friends at UWG. Otherwise, just keep on driving!

I agree with the poster who said there’s not much going on here. It’s a fine little place to live, but as far as a place to visit? Nah, just keep on driving.

Geaux Tigers! My years at LSU were the most fun of my life. I met loads of great people and Baton Rouge definitely provides plenty of nightlife for college kids.

The school grounds are lovely, but I often found myself lost on campus. I don’t know if that was just me, or if others have that problem too…but some afternoons I’d be trying to find some building on campus that I didn’t ordinarily go to and I’d walk all over the freaking place for an hour before I found it.

Parking is a problem. Live close and walk. Seriously. The parking lots are so far away that you’d be walking the same distance from the parking lot as from your house.

Tailgating at LSU is the best! Even if you don’t care for football, you have to go to campus when there are games and enjoy the tailgaters. Strangers will give you beer and you’ll make new friends :)

When I was there, I lived in one of the dorms that was popular for the black sorority girls to live in. My room faced the little horseshoe parking lot, and I’ll never forget the evenings when those girls’ boyfriends who were in some fraternity (I don’t remember which) would come and stand in the lot and SERENDADE the girls. Like, seriously serenade them with beautiful songs. The girls who didn’t have rooms facing the lot would come over to our rooms that did, and we’d all look down at those dudes in their top hats and tails SERENADING them. None of the guys in the white fraternities ever serenaded us white chicks. Hmph!

I loved LSU. I could write for pages and pages, but I’ll stop now because it would be crazy for me to write that much. I totally recommend LSU. Oh, and by the way—I’m a college professor now, and knowing what I do now in the profession, I can confidently say that LSU is a great school SCHOLASTICALLY, too. If you finish a degree from there, you’ve really accomplished something. Is it Harvard? No. But is it pretty damn good? Yes, absolutely, and if you finish a degree there, you should totally be proud of yourself.

I agree with the poster who said that there’s not much to do here. It’s an okay town for families, but dreadfully boring for teenagers and college-aged kids.

The last time I was there the bars closed at 3 a.m. which seems ridiculously late to me and seems that it might promote crime (I know I just made myself sound like a complete square, but so be it).

That said, there are far, far worse places to live. If you get offered a job in the area, give it a try. But if you’re just looking for a place to spend some vacation time? Keep on driving.

Cost of living is very reasonable. Amount of stuff to do in town was reasonable for a college kid or grown-up, but probably excruciatingly dull for teenagers and younger. The weather was, in my opinion, beautiful, with nice hot summers, and winters that would bring 3 or 4 shallow snowfalls a year. The snow would stick around for a few days and then melt—it would stay long enough to be fun, but not so long as to become a hassle.

That said, Stillwater seems to have more than its fair share of litter, and that drove me crazy. I don’t know if it’s because it’s so windy, or what, but there is always litter on the sides of the roads and all over parking lots. I found that really depressing.

When I first moved there, I was somewhat terrified by the rental properties—they were all ALL ALL ALL dumps. However, by the time I moved away, some new things had been built, and there seemed to be a trend by landlords to spruce up their properties.