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re: How long will the "friends, food, and family" effect keep natives in Louisiana?
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:34 pm to Paul Allen
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:34 pm to Paul Allen
We can't wait to get away from all the culture. Upon retirement, we are out of here. There are plenty of good places to live in this country. Louisiana isn't one of them.
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Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:35 pm to MBclass83
Why wait for retirement?
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:36 pm to MightyYat
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I don't get the healthcare comment the most. What can you get in other states that Louisiana doesn't offer?
Roads? No one moves to a place because of their sweet roads.
Education? I'll give you that one but some of us don't mind paying for school. Even if I lived in a place with great public schools I'd still send my kids to private school.
No one moves for roads, but it's a great fringe benefit to not need an alignment every two months.
If you'd pay tuition instead of using a great public school, then you just don't mind wasting money and you're definitely in the minority.
Healthcare is vastly superior in Texas. It is. I have a child with special needs. Everything is superior, from the choice of doctors to the therapists to the special Ed programs available. We'd be up shite creek if we stayed in Nola. Of course most people don't have such medical needs.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:40 pm to biglego
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Healthcare is vastly superior in Texas. It is. I have a child with special needs. Everything is superior, from the choice of doctors to the therapists to the special Ed programs available. We'd be up shite creek if we stayed in Nola. Of course most people don't have such medical needs.
Sounds like you are doing best for your kid, which is great.
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If you'd pay tuition instead of using a great public school, then you just don't mind wasting money and you're definitely in the minority.
There's a pretty significant number of private schools in Houston. Some people want their kids to have a religious education. Some are snobby. Not everywhere in Texas has great public schools... HISD has the same magnet vs non-magnet issues EBR has.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:41 pm to TxTiger82
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Incorrect. Why, just next door in Texas you can get a better job and send your kids to public school. Win-win.
Meh. Public school is for the poors no matter where you live.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:43 pm to Paul Allen
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I wonder how many folks born and raised here miss out on opportunities elsewhere (personal and economical) rather to stay here in LA their entire lives?
Roads, education, and healthcare are absolutely abysmal in LA. Yet, so many stay here for "culture", and the big one, family
I've toured the country, seen different places and met different people. Louisiana is home, and I do feel content knowing I can go anywhere..but when I get tired of being there, i find myself wanting to get a pizza from angeli and while I'm there..laugh about when the place next door was the Crystal and then the dervish etc.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:43 pm to LSUFanHouston
Sure, HISD is hit or miss. But if there IS a good public school, I'll never understand not using it. But to each his own.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:45 pm to MightyYat
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Meh. Public school is for the poors no matter where you live.
Spoken like a New Orleanian who doesn't realize this isn't true in other places.
But hey, enjoy paying college-level prices for high school. When your kids graduate, be sure to send them to some overpriced private liberal arts school in Virginia so they can major in Art History and get a job as a marketing coordinator working next to graduates from North Carolina State and Purdue.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:48 pm to biglego
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Sure, HISD is hit or miss.
That's why everyone goes to the 'burbs man--Kingwood, Katy, the Woodlands, etc. Great public schools that routinely produce students whose college performance is among the best in the nation.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 1:04 pm to TxTiger82
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Spoken like a New Orleanian who doesn't realize this isn't true in other places.
It doesn't matter where I live. I would want my kid to get an Catholic school education no matter what.
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But hey, enjoy paying college-level prices for high school. When your kids graduate, be sure to send them to some overpriced private liberal arts school in Virginia so they can major in Art History and get a job as a marketing coordinator working next to graduates from North Carolina State and Purdue.
Speaking of assumptions and cluelessness. My oldest graduated in May and started classes @ LSU last week.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 1:36 pm to Paul Allen
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How long will the "friends, food, and family" effect keep natives in Louisiana?
ESPN anchor and Nola native, Stan Verret (sp?), was interviewed on 104.5fm in BR last week for a sports angle on the 10th anni of Katrina. He mentioned something interesting when asked why some neighborhoods in Nola haven't rebounded like others, he said some folks who were skilled workers or educated that fled Nola 10 yrs ago have not returned because for all of Nola's cultural draws, there are lots of other nice places to have a life.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 1:41 pm to TxTiger82
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That's why everyone goes to the 'burbs man--Kingwood, Katy, the Woodlands, etc. Great public schools that routinely produce students whose college performance is among the best in the nation.
and spend 20+ hrs a week commuting to work
Posted on 8/31/15 at 1:43 pm to MightyYat
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Public school is for the poors no matter where you live.
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My oldest graduated in May and started classes @ LSU last week.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 1:55 pm to Salmon
She chose LSU.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 2:01 pm to RoyMcavoy
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ESPN anchor and Nola native, Stan Verret (sp?), was interviewed on 104.5fm in BR last week for a sports angle on the 10th anni of Katrina. He mentioned something interesting when asked why some neighborhoods in Nola haven't rebounded like others, he said some folks who were skilled workers or educated that fled Nola 10 yrs ago have not returned because for all of Nola's cultural draws, there are lots of other nice places to have a life
While it is true a ton of people left Nola to never go back, it doesn't mean they moved out of LA. BR areas and Lafayette areas had a huge influx of people that were Katrina refugees that never moved back to Nola.
I have way too good of friends and way too awesome family to move away. Am I saying I would never move away, no, but it would take a hell of a lot. I moved away right after graduation and after a few months couldn't wait to get back. I love my family and friends and that is what life is about. People that think it's about money and fricking roads are probably not the happiest people to be around anyway, so I'm glad if they gtfo
This post was edited on 8/31/15 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 8/31/15 at 2:02 pm to MightyYat
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Meh. Public school is for the poors no matter where you live.
What a backward opinion.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 2:07 pm to Throbinhood
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People that think it's about money and fricking roads are probably not the happiest people to be around anyway,
unless of course they are in a place with good roads and they make good money, then they would be happy as a hippo, no?
Posted on 8/31/15 at 2:25 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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What a backward opinion.
I was just kidding. Sheesh.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 2:30 pm to Paul Allen
My wife is from TX. I have been here a long time already so friends are good. Family is harder for me. With the birth of my firstborn, I find myself wanting to visit more. I don't want to move back to NOLA but is is tough. I have my work cut out for me in not raising a Cowturd fan.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 2:33 pm to Paul Allen
I might leave after college. i grew up in BR, but i want to hang out with and meet all kinds of people. i want to make great friends with asians and Hispanic, tolerant white, and upper class black people and there arent enough here. i have always wondered what living in the north, midwest, or west would be like. You can get food anywhere. Also, barely any family here anyway ( immigrant parents). I also want interracial relationships with white women, something which isnt too prevalent down here. I do like some things about BR here.
This post was edited on 8/31/15 at 2:37 pm
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