Baton Rouge, LA is the capital of Louisiana and is known for its culture, delicious Creole cuisine, vibrant nightlife, and museums. It is a vibrant city filled with plenty to do and experience. Whether you are looking for an outdoor adventure or a relaxing evening at one of its many restaurants, Baton Rouge has something for everyone. From the historic plantations and state capitol building to the exciting museums and zoos, Baton Rouge offers something unique and exciting that can't be found anywhere else. The locals are incredibly warm and welcoming to visitors from all over the world. Reviews of Baton Rouge highly suggest that it is definitely worth visiting if you are ever in Louisiana. There's always something fun happening in this city - from incredible live music events to festivals celebrating local culture. With so much to explore in Baton Rouge, it's no surprise that it's one of the most popular tourist destinations in Louisiana!
based on 64 ReviewsGet to know Baton Rouge with the latest comments and reviews from people who live in or have visited Baton Rouge
Quality of Life? - 6/3/2007
There are many imperfections about life in Baton Rouge, as well as Louisiana in general. But I do enjoy the atmosphere in town-when you are around the long time residents, you get an acceptance that will ignore a lot of woes, including yankeeistic tendencies. I moved away for 17 years, and realized the friendliness of the people was not to be duplicated, even in other areas of the South.
The biggest fault is the lack of infrastructure and a sense of urgency to correct things. Nearly 2 years after Katrina, our traffic is still at a crawl during rush hour, housing is hideous, and crime is not what it used to
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What you see here is how it is - 5/26/2007
I'm from Baton Rouge, born here, and moved hither and yon, only to end up back here for the last 5 years.
If you've had a look at any of the other posts on Baton Rouge, you get a good idea of the range of people you deal with. Illiteracy is a real problem here, as I'm sure you can tell from reading some of the posts. Crime is ridiculous, partly because cops are invisible. Don't bother calling the police for anything but violent crime that you actually witness with your own two eyes. If you hear shots, don't call, they'll just be rude to you. If you hear noise that alarms you (screaming, thumping, etc.), don't call, they'll just ignore you. If you see someone driving drunk or abusing a child, don't call, they won't respond in time to do any good. I've tried.
People throw trash on the ground, dogs run loose, even in the "nice" parts of town, traffic is really bad for a city this size--there really isn't much nice to say about Baton Rouge unless you
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Central; Louisiana's newest city - 5/6/2007
In the past year Central has broken away from Baton Rouge and become it's own city, the 12th largest in the state. Housing is booming with exsisting houses up over 20%, new subdivisions are springing up everywhere, some national builders, DH Horton are planning nice subdivisions and begining this August we will have our own school district, which will be the # 1 or 2 in the state. I hope in the next few years, when stats are in you will be able to rank us. we have a nice mixture of rural setting with morden homes, farms, new stores and restaurants a very low crime rate. Altough we have traffic congestion due to growth and a very high sales tax our propiety taxes are very low thanks to Huey P Longs Homestead excemption, no taxes on 75,000 house and we pay on the value above $75,000. eg. $140,000 house I pay $340. per year. Auto and homeowners insurance is very high and so are electric and gas.
Love your site and look foward to see Central ranked in the near future.
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Do Not Go to Baton Rouge - 4/11/2007
I am from New Orleans and I lived in Baton Rouge for 1 year after Hurricane Katrina and the experience was awful. I never want to see that miserable city again. The people are narrow-minded and rude. The food is a poor attempt to mimick New Orleans food. The weather is horrible. The jobs are terrible. The traffic is a nightmare. Quality of life is the worst. LSU is a shameful, ugly magnet for people looking to party, not to receive an education. In fact, I cannot say one good thing about Baton Rouge. Do not go there. Stay away. You can find a better place to
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Louisiana weather myth - 4/10/2007
Moved here a year ago from Saint Louis. Everyone told me that the hot humid summers would wilt anyone not raised in this climate. They were wrong. The summer was humid and hot, but no more so than Saint Louis where I had been. And guess what, when winter came I didn't have to shovel any snow. Good tradeoff. Baton Rouge is a college town and state capitol making it a little more diverse for a southern city. Growth has been fast since it took on a lot of post Katrina evacuees from the coast but I am new enough that I don't remember "the way it
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Taxes and apartments are expensive now - 4/5/2007
About a year ago I moved to louisiana and I still havent seen anything positive about louisiana. The people are very self-absorbed. They dont throw the trash in proper places. The people use louisiana as their personal trash can. Apartments since Katrina are more expensive and have a low minimum wage. They expect the people to work for $5.15 a hour and be able to afford a apartment that costs $695 a month. If you live out of state expect to pay 9% for car plates and tags...So you better bring some cash because state of louisiana does not take credit cards. There is not much to do in baton rouge only go shopping, see movies or go gambling. If you are a very religous person then it is a good place to move here but if you think there is more to life than religion dont move to the
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This is the reality! - 3/11/2007
The job economy tend on how much you are willing to compromise your life to have a job ,which in turn brings you in as a slave. the job economy is available to super underpay with a rate under$15/hr. we have no labor laws. the jobs have no ethics. you be lucky if ya check come on time. racism and political system is still confederate and unjust. if someone have to get an attorney just as a witness to everything, that's ridiculous. there is too many people in the world you have to bribe justice. this is confederate mentality. traffic stops are racially profile. it's ridiculous. we just had a job fair, it should have been advertise for teenagers. alot of people have that slave mentality of accept whatever, you tell your boss to accept whatever, and pay you whatever you need.... you can't have a day off from work---you have too tell 100 explanation of why you taking that day off--- you don't have money for anything come in town, the insurance company take it,,all the crooked insurance
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person who blame of the change in baton rouge - 1/15/2007
to the person who made the comment on blacks moving by tthe droves its sad to see people only see the one side of the issue people get desparate in situations first of all anytime you treat people like cattle and animals in which on historical point of view been to different worlds now just combine into one by poverty its sad to take a race people of charactor and assume majority blacks bringing problems to other city like baton rouge just plain ignorant. people make bad choice for certain reasons. not excusing the crime but heck man if you say that these people are animals put them in category out of race instead of charactor like this person made is a sad indivual my heart goes out to people where the goverment ignore people at this time of need shows that the country who spead demoracy to other places need to check how they treat their
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come on lets go... - 12/6/2006
to another state! Just kidding - Baton Rouge has alot to offer.
Great jobs in the industrial and engineering careers. Really, really
good food (try to find that just anywhere!). Locally close to New Orleans,
Houston etc, if you get bored here. The weather is very hot from July to
September, but extend spring-fall the rest of the time. Not much of a winter - so you can't count on snow. But mostly, plan on private school
for your kids.
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Restaurant Diversity - 10/13/2006
I dont think one of the previous posts is quite true on the lack of restaurant diversity outside of seafood. while not as diverse as bigger cities, it does have a growing line of places to eat. there are authentic "mom and pop" places for Jamaican (on Jones Creek) and Mexican (on north Siegen). More Lebanese\Greek restaurants than many larger cities could even dream of. Great cajun places (not necessarily just seafood) and New Orleans-style poboys that you just cant get anywhere else in country. Not to mention a German restaurant, a Central American place, soul food, and BBQ places including Memphis-style BBQ. Another Brazilian steakhouse is opening soon. There are many restaurants if you look for them online and local free papers and magazines. And try getting decent cafe au lait (with chicory) and beignets in most other large
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