re: People continued to flee Louisiana in 2022

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The decline is because Louisiana is stagnant. No new jobs, industry, or incentives. No white collar jobs, no fortune 500 companies and no one perusing any.

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It’s so much bigger than this in my experience. It’s no one thing for most of us, but a combination of factors that are honestly just not solvable. It’s more a quality of life matter.

Some alluring job in a cutting edge industry with a big salary will just never draw back many that left and feel life is about more than just money. Infrastructure is horrid, but that’s lots of places. Crime is awful, but LA isn’t the only state suffering through that. The (sometimes) fun culture and certainly great food is missed, but it’s not enough. You can find different versions of that anywhere if you know where to look.

Other major factors:
- Awful weather
- Lack of diverse terrain and 4 seasons (and activity options as a result)
- The state being last in everything for decades and too corrupt to fix what can be. Education and healthcare being some huge ones, especially for those wanting a family.

I could go on but this will be divisive enough. I’ll always have family and friends there to go back to, but, like many, living in Louisiana is distantly in the rear view and it’s not because of a job.