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I'm finally leaving south Louisiana. For anyone else who left was it tough to live somewhere else? This seems like a different planet compared to other parts of US. I know a lot of people who went to Houston, and they like it. Quality of school, healthcare is better, but there is not the LA culture. Plenty of transplants, but still if I have kids they won't get to see a lot of it.

The hard part for me was finding a place to live. I didn't know what neighborhood to live in or even which suburb.

I also feel that landlords in Louisiana are held to a higher standard than what you see in the big city. In a city of several million people you've got a constant influx of people from the third world for whom running water and a mostly leak-free roof are pretty damned good. So landlords can slip a lot more and still get tenants, and places like Houston end up having a lot more crappy apartments than NOLA, even at much higher rent levels.

Doesn't affect you if you're buying, but renting is (otherwise) as pretty good move when you're just starting out somewhere.

This post was edited on 7/10/20 at 12:23 pm

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Posted by kingbob

Sorrento, LA

Member since Nov 2010

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Posted on 7/10/20 at 12:27 pm to USMEagles

I’ve tried to leave several times, but I really really really really don’t want to live in Houston. I find my biggest hurdle is in trying to find a job out of state that isn’t in Houston. It’s like, hey, there’s a big world out there! Get out of this shithole and experience it! That’s right, there’s the inner loop, the woodlands, sugarland, katy, beaumont, AND Galveston! How could you not want to leave Louisiana for THAT!?

So, until I find something somewhere I actually would like to live, I’m going to stay in BR and try my best to make the city just a little less crappy.

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