White Flight
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12/21/2017
Bossier City is pretty much where people from Shreveport go when they get fed up with the crime, dysfunction, and high taxes over there. That said, it is no paradise. OK schools. You are best off sending y our kids to private schools.
Not much to do other than dine out at national chain restaurants and fast food places or go to the casinos or hunt and fish.
The city itself is ugly. Strip malls, no landscaping, big signs and bill boards, and urban sprawl everywhere. It's as if there were no zoning at all. Reminds me of the lower income parts of Houston.
On the positive side, if you are religious, there are many churches. A lot of these churches are less about religion and about recreation -- like community centers. And housing is very cheap compared to the rest of the country.
Downside: taxes. Sales taxes are high -- near 10% through most of Louisiana. And there is a 6% income tax that kicks in at low income levels. Property taxes in Bossier parish are lower than Caddo, but I suspect just about in synch with the national averages. This idea that southern states are tax havens is bogus if your are upper middle class.
Tyler | Miami Beach, FL