re: What do you like most and least about where you currently live?

Like: Rural but close to mid-sized city and DC, mountains, bay are a little over an hour. Weather is mild, plenty of jobs, schools are good.

Dislike: Not mountainous but just hilly, taxes, 95 summer traffic.

If I could do it over: I'd buy more land earlier, but out West, near Colorado Springs or SLC. BUT, I could have been very happy on my grandfathers farm in Natchitoches parish if that could have worked out.

Baton Rouge:

Most: Family, friends, restaurants, proximity to LSU. Also has some fun things things to do… Saint Patty’s day & LSU football mainly. Short drive to Fl beach, easy airport.

Least: Crime, traffic, COL is tad high, local government, flat topography. Baton Rouge is the largest city I’ll ever consider living. Would like to get somewhere more rural when the time is right

Like - access to plentiful cheap tasty seafood

Hate - lack of education in the masses

Like - Food and food choices

Dislike - There are no single women here unless you are black.

Like the most: my family and friends.
Like the least: literally everything else.

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What do you like most and least about where you currently live?

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Baton Rouge

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And if you could start over in a brand new area, what would it be?

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St.George

Never any traffic

Nothing but Mexican restaurants to eat at

Shreveport. It’s very easy to get around because of excellent road system. It offers a low cost of living. I really don’t worry about crime in my part of the city. On the negative side, It’s a very boring place, the people are very cheap, and natives are burdened with this mindset that nothing should be too nice because someone else may derive a greater benefit.

Jackson, MS

like: my friends, my little house, my relatively short commute, several restaurants

hate: the weather 90% of the time, the crime, anytime I want to leave my little bubble, all the abandoned buildings, graffiti, and garbage everywhere

There are MUCH better places than Jackson out there. While many of the problems here are also problems everywhere else, a lot of those problems aren't nearly as bad. However, moving somewhere else can be extremely expensive, finding work in a new city that affords you the same or better QOL can be difficult, and replacing your existing social network, especially one formed since birth with deep ties in the community, is almost impossible to do even over several years time.

I get it.