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re: Leaving Lousiana?
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:30 am to calcashoeupyoass
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:30 am to calcashoeupyoass
Idk man, LA has so much going for it. Tough decision in my book 
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Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:30 am to calcashoeupyoass
I left 8 years ago and I don't ever plan to live in Louisiana full time again. I love visiting but there's so much more out there.
The hardest part is having 3 kids and not having grandparents around so my wife and I can have regular date nights.
Left La for Alaska. Left Alaska for Germany. Leaving Germany for Colorado. Hope to settle down in CO and make it home for a long time.
The hardest part is having 3 kids and not having grandparents around so my wife and I can have regular date nights.
Left La for Alaska. Left Alaska for Germany. Leaving Germany for Colorado. Hope to settle down in CO and make it home for a long time.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:31 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
That black smoke is photoshopped, but your point still stands. Baton Rouge is basically Biff’s Evil 1985 from Back to the Future: 2
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:32 am to calcashoeupyoass
Miss family and friends, nothing else.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:33 am to LSUtoBOOT
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Miss family and friends, nothing else.
Same here. Left Terrebonne parish two years ago and my standard of living and stress levels have both drastically improved. I do miss my extended family and being close to the bayou
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:35 am to kingbob
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That black smoke is photoshopped, but your point still stands.
No, it's a picture of the Exxon explosion back in the 80s.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:37 am to kingbob
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Baton Rouge is basically Biff’s Evil 1985 from Back to the Future: 2
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:43 am to LSUBoo
I will say this about Louisiana. Taking the boat out and enjoying all the fun you can have along the Amite/diversion canal and stopping at so many places to have a drink and mingle and such and THEN leaving Blind River and going to prop stop to get a worm bucket and spending time with people that just want to have fun is an awesome experience. Then you cruise to the sand bar and drink, play music, get in the water with zero worries is a great experience... and then you cruise back to the camp and chill out cooking steaks and whatever. THEN its Funtime....... break out the poker chips till at least midnight.... AND you get up at 8 or so the next morning and pop a top and do it all over again......... there is ZERO place in this country you can experience that IMO.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:43 am to Stiles
Yeah, notice I didn’t include BR on my list of great places in the state to live. My issue with Houston is that it’s too much like Baton Rouge
I think BR gets slightly more hate on this site than it deserves, but its reputation as a run-down, crime infested, traffic-snarled, flood-prone, AIDS-ridden, suburban sprawling, mcmansion-covered shithole is well-earned.
I think BR gets slightly more hate on this site than it deserves, but its reputation as a run-down, crime infested, traffic-snarled, flood-prone, AIDS-ridden, suburban sprawling, mcmansion-covered shithole is well-earned.
This post was edited on 7/10/20 at 11:48 am
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:51 am to kingbob
BR was a pretty decent place to live and raise a family in the 80s. I'm technically from Central but grew up maybe 5 miles outside of the city limits. The school desegregation order really changed its trajectory.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:53 am to kingbob
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I think BR gets slightly more hate on this site than it deserves, but its reputation as a run-down, crime infested, traffic-snarled, flood-prone, AIDS-ridden, suburban sprawling, mcmansion-covered shithole is well-earned.
I drop subtle and not so subtle hints to our CEO almost daily that I am thriving working from home right now, and could do this shite from anywhere in the world. I'm even dropping little nuggets like "Yeah man, I even find myself putting in extra hours at night and on weekends just to get stuff done when I'm bored"
Fingers crossed, they take the hint and greenlight indefinite work from home and my arse is packing up and moving the next day. Gotta work on the wife though
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:54 am to fallguy_1978
I also found the city was really trending in the right direction in the first half of the 2010’s but did a complete reversal in trajectory in 2016 and has only continued to slowly destroy all the progress the city made post post Katrina during the latter Kip years.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:57 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
I would if it were true. I’m significantly less productive at home, and I wish that wasn’t the case.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:57 am to NIH
Lack might not be the best word, but:
Bad weather and no seasons
High crime and dirty
Bad outdoors scene
Cookie cutter suburbs on dusty little lots
Bad weather and no seasons
High crime and dirty
Bad outdoors scene
Cookie cutter suburbs on dusty little lots
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:58 am to dukke v
quote:is there a state that doesn’t have this?
there is ZERO place in this country you can experience that IMO.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 11:59 am to kingbob
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city was really trending in the right direction in the first half of the 2010’s
Back when Third street was a thing and doing well. How is downtown these days compared with back then?
Around 2006 or so, Roux House and Boudreaux and Thibodaux’s were always packed.
This post was edited on 7/10/20 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 7/10/20 at 12:01 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Plus, it doesn’t have any kind of local unique cuisine, the fishing is pretty garbage, the nearby beaches are garbage, there’s no mountains, no aesthetic building architecture just strip malls and mcmansions, little original music or unique local styles of music being made there, no aesthetic or interesting geology, few important historical sites or museums, etc. Houston just has nothing about it that is attractive beyond economics, which are obviously a huge draw, but if their increasingly progressive government ever kills that golden goose, the city is toast because it has no other appeal.
Posted on 7/10/20 at 12:04 pm to Paul Allen
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How is downtown these days compared with back then?
It’s almost back to its pre-Katrina level of ghost town status. Mayor Broome ordered BRPD to enforce open-container laws on 3rd Street to get back at John Delgado for attempting to organize a recall initiative against her. It killed Delgado’s bars, as well as many others, and caused the crowds of young 20-something girls to go elsewhere (mostly the overpass) because they could no longer bar hop carrying drinks.
Happy’s is still going strong, but most of the other bars are seriously struggling to draw crowds. Even B&T’s. Over half the bars from 2015 have gone out of business and either reopened under new owners and new names or closed for good.
This post was edited on 7/10/20 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 7/10/20 at 12:05 pm to Hetfield
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Now thanks to China & Derek Chauvin, Dallas is a SJW dumpster fire.
Lol what?
Posted on 7/10/20 at 12:07 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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Bad weather and no seasons
High crime and dirty
Bad outdoors scene
Cookie cutter suburbs on dusty little lots
Half of this applies to NOLA too.
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