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Posted on 5/11/18 at 7:42 pm
Posted by BayouBengals18
Fort Worth
Member since Jan 2009
9843 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 7:42 pm
Possible job opportunity in Longview, and I need people who have spent some time there to tell me the pros and cons. TIA
Posted by DustyDinkleman
Here
Member since Feb 2012
18176 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 7:45 pm to
Don’t know how I’d feel having Shreveport being the biggest city near me.
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
75263 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 7:45 pm to
Hometown of the great Neal McCoy

Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
109046 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 7:47 pm to
Pros: None

Cons:

Everything
Posted by gmac8604
Green Bay, WI
Member since Jun 2012
1114 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 7:47 pm to
I know they are looking for escaping immigrants along the stateline daily. As long as your wife, or partner, aren't Latino, you're good.
Posted by 4LSU2
Member since Dec 2009
37346 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 7:48 pm to
Hour from Shreveport.

Two hours from DFW.

Nice place to live in the piney woods. I have family there. Good local fishing and hunting. LHS has a damn fine football program. John King has them rolling.
Posted by PiscesTiger
Concrete, WA
Member since Feb 2004
53696 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 7:48 pm to
My great grandfather taught at Byrd for Physics and Chemistry from 8 to 12. He would teach 2 classes at Longview from 1 to 3. He did this 34 year from 1959 thru 1992. He retired a millionaire after this and his investments.

Longview is a lot like Marshall and Carthage. Louisiana could have these types of small cities if we were not so damn stupid. Tyler started out like Marshall and around 1990, their population went kaboom.
Posted by 007mag
Death Valley, Sec. 408
Member since Dec 2011
3873 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 7:52 pm to
Been over twenty years but we enjoyed the seven years we were there. No state income tax is nice. I feel like houses are cheaper there compared to Baton Rouge Area.
Posted by lowspark12
nashville, tn
Member since Aug 2009
22371 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 7:55 pm to
I lived there for two years after college... pretty boring tbh. Folks are nice, but it’s a long arse way from anything fun (Dallas, Houston, the beach).
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
120389 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 8:09 pm to
Tyler > Longview
Posted by Ric Flair
Charlotte
Member since Oct 2005
13668 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 8:10 pm to
Never been there, but imagined it as the NE Texas equivalent of Beaumont. Based strictly on geography where Dallas:Houston, Shreveport:Lake Charles, I-20:I-10.
Posted by JPinLondon
not in London (currently NW Ohio)
Member since Nov 2006
7855 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 8:27 pm to
I'd live there. Some in-laws live in Diboll, so I get there semi-regularly. They love it. I like it.
Posted by Sao
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
65916 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 8:28 pm to

AMA
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
16241 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 8:29 pm to
Streakers is all you need to know
Posted by lsucoonass
shreveport and east texas
Member since Nov 2003
68482 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 8:35 pm to
Longview isn’t bad at all.

Neither is Tyler
Posted by GeorgeTheGreek
Sparta, Greece
Member since Mar 2008
66471 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 8:44 pm to
Great high school football. Use to be a regular border battle between them and West Monroe in the late 90s and early 00s.
Posted by Restomod
Member since Mar 2012
13493 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 8:44 pm to
Do you like BFE?

If so, Longview is the place for you...
Posted by The People
LSU Alumni
Member since Aug 2008
4214 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 8:48 pm to
The drive thru mom and pop Taco joint on the main strip near the interstate is the ticket.

Can’t remember the name, but we stop there every time we visit.

My contribution is minor, but if it is close I hope your love of good tacos closes the deal. Godspeed.
Posted by northLAgoomba
The Cooper Road, Ratchet City, LA
Member since Nov 2009
3797 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 8:49 pm to
Famous for full-nude strip clubs.
Posted by White Bear
Yonnygo
Member since Jul 2014
14025 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 9:20 pm to
Isnt there an all nude strip club in Longview?
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