re: Leaving Lousiana?

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with plenty of things for locals to do

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The drawback is that those things that Houston has for locals to do are had by literally every other city of remotely similar size. They’re not unique to Houston, and people don’t have to come to Houston, and only Houston, to experience them.

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found literally nowhere else on earth.


I love New Orleans but we don't have to be overly hyperbolic about it.

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There’s a lot of dishes there that are not duplicated in restaurants in other places. New Orleans architecture is largely one-of-a-kind. There’s no other city that looks like it. New Orleans jazz is duplicated in some other places (largely by Louisiana ex-pats), but the frequency and variety is pretty much only found in the city. Thus, people go to New Orleans to experience these things because they cannot have a similar experience anywhere else.

That is the point I am making. There is no alternative draw to Houston beyond economics, and the government of that city needs to reverse their current trajectory or they’re going to kill the one thing they have going for them. Houston currently offers a very favorable quality of life for pay vs cost of living. It has no other experience to offer its citizens which cannot be had in dozens of other cities of remotely similar size. If it loses its economic edge, it loses nearly its entire reason for existence.