re: Leaving Lousiana?

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Half of this applies to NOLA too.

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Of course it does, but New Orleans also offers tons of music, arts, architecture, and food found literally nowhere else on earth. New Orleans has the same drawbacks as Houston (and then some), but it also has some really big attractive qualities few other cities have. While Houston offers a competitive environment for building a business or career, it lacks anything else that many rival cities offer. Houston has similar problems to Dallas and Charlotte in that they have to make themselves uber competitive economically because they lack a lot of the other cultural advantages many other cities have that attract people.

A lot of people move to places like New York, New Orleans, Nashville, Ashville, Chicago, L.A., etc for reasons beyond jobs and cost of living. These cities bring other appeals to the table. Houston doesn’t. It feels soulless and lacking in identity because it, frankly, doesn’t have either one.