Hello, If you are considering moving to Baton Rouge for a new job just know that here in Baton Rouge, we love welcoming new faces to our community. The Baton Rouge movers have a few insider insights on life in Louisiana, and we would love to share them with you! Louisiana weather can be quite fickle, but above all else it is a Southern state so hot days and humidity are a common theme. Smaller cities that also have employment opportunities and reasonable prices on property are in Shreveport, Lake Charles, Monroe, Alexandria, Metairie, and Kenner. These are convenient to big city amenities but offer a more suburban quality of life. Roads, ferries, bridges, and boats are all optional ways to get transported through Louisiana, and areas like Baton Rouge have amazing public transportation set up to help you avoid additional traffic, tolls, & parking expenses. As far as the cost of living in Louisiana, it is quite reasonable compared to many other US states. In fact, the cost of living in the state is approximately 16.5 percent lower than the national average! The average household in the state has an income of just over $35,000, which might seem low in some major cities but it can make for an affordable city for others. Gas prices are particularly low thanks to the petroleum production in Louisiana and nearby Texas. Here you have it—some insider info on living in Louisiana, hope you find this information useful. Alice www.allmysons.com/batonrouge
Alice | Baton Rouge, LA | Report Abuse

I have lived in Baton Rouge for two years now and am ready to leave as soon as I find a job elsewhere. I don't know where people get the idea that Baton Rouge people welcome outsiders with open arms. Whoever came up with that idea is living in a dream world! People in Baton Rouge are extremely cliquish and do not want to take anyone into their closed cliques from outside. If you took a job here and you're from outside Louisiana, just be aware that if someone comes along with your credentials who is from Louisiana, you just must find yourself suddenly replaced - I kid you not, that's how bad the "Louisiana for Louisianan's" attitude is. The population has a large number of transplants from Northern US cities who brought with them their Northern-US-city nasty attitudes. The white natives here have a definite problem relating to black people and vice versa, i.e. racism, and it works in BOTH directions. I live in a very nice 1950s neighborhood where the neighbors have barking dogs that never, and I mean NEVER, hush. You can't go in the back yard for some peace and quiet without listening to the dog choir. To make it worse, one of them is a beagle hound that strolls through the yard day and night sniffing the ground and howling! And what makes it especially super is the neighbors won't speak to anyone around them and don't care if their dogs are annoying everyone else. Now, if you like sitting in extremely long traffic jams from 5 am to 10 pm, then Baton Rouge is your place to be. The transportation system here is so antiquated that you can't go anywhere without sitting in long lines of traffic. In addition, the below ground infrastructure here is also antiquated as well. Good points here are: no snow, stifling hot summers for 5 months, New Orleans to run away to for fun (you won't find much fun in Baton Rouge) and maybe some good food. Baton Rouge is a government city so once 5 pm comes and the outbound traffic jams start and finish, downtown is a ghost town. If it hadn't been for the City government sprucing up the downtown core, downtown would be a dangerous place to be, just like the north side of the City above Florida Boulevard which is sort of a dividing line between white populations and black populations. It's even so bad that my partner, sitting at a traffic light here, had someone brandish a pistol at him for absolutely no reason. Don't mistake Baton Rouge's southern location for southern courtesy and hospitality. It is not a friendly place to be. If this sounds like paradise to you, you must be from someplace like Detroit.
Eric | Baton Rouge, LA | Report Abuse