How different is the town you grew up in?

I don't know, but I'm sure there are PLENTY of people on here that can tell us how much Metairie has changed since I left in 1988.

Baton Rouge doesn't really feel like it's changed all that much since the early 90s.

Baton rouge is still a shithole.

Grew up in a tiny tiny Louisiana town, tucked away in the woods. I grew up around old people, who had primarily supported their families financially in the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s by fishing & trapping.

Those people’s kids, and my peers, destroyed that tiny town and it’s now nothing more than dilapidated homes of the past and meth trailers scattered all around. Probably more meth in that town than Heisenberg could move. My toddler asks me to tell him stories sometimes going while putting him down at night. Other night I was telling him stories about that tiny town, and the things I did growing up; but I got a little emo as it hit me that he’d absolutely never be able to experience the same things I was able to as a kid because druggies destroyed that town.

Not necessarily where I grew up but the overall household income has dropped to a level below poverty but still the same amount of bars and churches.

Was rural, lots of trees and pastures, growing up. Now it’s mostly suburban sprawl.

Pretty much the same. Still mostly corn, cotton and bean fields. Still small.

We do have a couple new restaurants opening soon which is cool

There's stoplights now.

I don’t spend much time there but it doesn’t seem to have changed much from an outsiders pov

Grew up in one of the least populous counties in the country. 600 people total in a county 3x larger than Omaha. 34 miles to the nearest gas station, you went to town once per week. Had a missile silo closer to us than the next neighbor.

Omaha’s a bit different