COMMENT BY
COMMENT ABOUT PLACE
Shreveport, LA
COMMENT
Get Out While You Can
Shreveport is dying a slow painful death. If you are thinking of relocating here; I would not advise it. Since moving back twenty years ago, I have watch the town deteriorate. There are shooting every night where innocent bystanders are killed. One feels very unsafe when going to Walmart--even during the day. The property taxes are outrages for a town this size because the majority of the population does not work; the city revenue has to come from something. The city water smells really bad, and so does the rates to pipe the water into you house. If you drive throughout the city on the pothole roads, you see boarded up houses or vacant property where a house or business once stood. The city is riddled with trash everywhere. People in Shreveport usually just throws there trash out the window of there car or they dump it on the side of the road because it cost to much to take it to the landfill.If you buy a house today, the same house will be worth less in a year, guaranteed. If you do your research, the statics will show Shreveport is decreasing in population. There are no big companies here to provide the jobs. All of the major employers have move away or gone out of business. Even the riverboat casinos are having trouble staying afloat in the city. The riverboat casinos that employ many thousands of people in the city are showing signs of petering out.