re: Move to Lafayette?

Lafayette is the perfect place to raise a family, and even the public school system is decent. Cost of living is also affordable for what you get. It's basically a small town mindset inside of a bigger city. Add in the natural Cajun culture, and it's a hit. I would say, though, that traffic can be an issue due to the fact that Lafayette sort of outgrew itself over the last 3 decades to where the road infrastructure couldn't catch up. Hopefully, there's some fixes to that in the future.

As for the comparisons between Lafayette and Metry, I've lived in both areas. You know the main difference? When I turned it on to WWL for the nightly news, the top stories were always "how many got shot in the area today." When I turned on KATC, it was "what festival is happening this weekend." It's safe to say that I rather liked one over the other.