re: Move to Lafayette?

777Tiger, you are mistaken about Louisiana cuisines. There are three main ones. The Southwest (Acadian culture) produced the unique Cajun cuisine. The New Orleans Southeast produced the unique Creole cuisine, and the Northern parts generally cook non-unique Southern food.

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Lafayette, and Acadiana in general are responsible for the best food La has to offer,

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This is personal preference. Half my family is Cajun cooking and half is Creole cooking. Plus we have Southern (oftentimes mislabeled Soul food) influences. All are delicious. But I would rank them Creole, Cajun, Southern. And all are superior to Yankee food.

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Nola wasn't really known for that until they hosted the World's Fair, hell they even used to serve bawl crawfish chilled

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Complete BS! I went to many crawfish, crab, and shrimp boils and ate hot boiled seafood before the World’s Fair. And yes we eat cold crawfish, crabs, and shrimp to this day. Do y’all throw your surplus boiled crawfish away?

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it's what everyone outside of La thinks they are getting when they go to Nola, "Cajun" food

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Yes outsiders are ignorant of the Cajun/Creole distinction, as perhaps are you. And the New Orleans area always adds and adapts other cuisines to its table. One can easily find Cajun, Italian, Vietnamese, etc in the Creole bastions.

Crawfish bisque, my favorite, is Creole. Crawfish etouffee, an extremely close second, is Cajun. I wouldn’t want to live without either!!!