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re: Escaping Your Hometown
Posted on 8/23/21 at 10:12 pm to The Ole Cowboy
Posted on 8/23/21 at 10:12 pm to The Ole Cowboy
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All that money you saved and all those places you wish you could live one day finally happens later in life. If life is too short, retired life is even shorter. Live somewhere you really want to be every day.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this type of thing a lot lately. Where do I WANT to live and do?
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Posted on 8/23/21 at 10:17 pm to kingbob
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no career prospects outside of the state.
How do you not have prospects outside of the State of Louisiana? Literally, the rest of the world is outside of Louisiana.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 10:18 pm to ElderTiger
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Sometimes I think the family issue is overblown. Admittedly I did not grow up in a very happy home. Getting out was my goal and I moved away as soon as I could. Same for my sister. We are still reasonably close and talk and visit in person as often as we can.
As for my children, one is still in town, the other has moved away. Guess which one has the most fulfilling life…the one that moved away.
To each their own, but living permanently in the town you grew up in just seems a challenge.
That's not a fair assessment. There are too many variables.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 11:13 pm to mikelbr
Mikelbr- that is so sweet until your kids all graduate college and move away because they want better opportunities and lifestyles.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 11:26 pm to madamsquirrel
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Mikelbr- that is so sweet until your kids all graduate college and move away because they want better opportunities and lifestyles.
My oldest red-buttoned me for breakfast last Saturday.
Kids are assholes.
This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 8:25 am
Posted on 8/23/21 at 11:39 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Best thing I ever did. I did move back to Mississippi recently after moving out of state for a while....but I'm ready to leave Mississippi again. I moved back to help my dad recover from some surgeries. He died last year so I am ready to leave again. I don't really have anything left here. I appreciate the simplicity and culture in MS but life is too short to hang around this shite hole. There's so much more that I want to experience before I die.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 11:52 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I actually like where i grew up. I wanted to get away for a few years and I haven’t moved back but I wouldn’t be against it. I visit 1-2 times a year.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:04 am to SaintlyTiger88
I knew I wouldn't live in my hometown since middle school or high school. Went 800 miles away for college and it was a great thing until I lost a scholarship. Learned to be comfortable with being myself. Then finished college in my home state. Only hung out with about 3 friends from high school then but had better new friends through classes & work. Then got a job 1000 miles away from the hometown after graduating.
I've been to my hometown 1 time since graduating college for a funeral. It was weird after living in a large city to see a midwest UAW town after the recession. It wasn't escaping anything but more of knowing there was more out there with bigger & better possibilities.
I've been to my hometown 1 time since graduating college for a funeral. It was weird after living in a large city to see a midwest UAW town after the recession. It wasn't escaping anything but more of knowing there was more out there with bigger & better possibilities.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:11 am to mikelbr
quote:I now have grandchildren (honorary for Big B) and I have no use for the children anymore.
Kids are assholes.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 12:18 am to SaintlyTiger88
Grew up in a small country town, went to college, got a good job offer that required me to move far away and I’m the better for it. I wouldn’t want to live in my hometown but it will always be home if that makes any sense. I do admit though there’s times I miss the farm, my horses and family but if I had stayed I would be working a dead end job or running the ranch. I get to see the world as I have to travel a lot it’s the nature of what I do but nothing will ever replace where I call home.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 1:31 am to SaintlyTiger88
Left and haven't looked back. I don't mind going back for a visit ,but bolted the first chance I got.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 1:39 am to SaintlyTiger88
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If you are the former, did you end up sticking around or did you move?
From Alexandria, so yeah...I made it out when I was 19
Posted on 8/24/21 at 6:52 am to HoustonChick86
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I left my hometown/state for LSU. Never moved back home, but left Louisiana.
Same here. I left Kentucky to go to LSU. Loved LSU amd Louisiana but work has carried me to where I reside in Georgia these days. I have no desire to ever return to that little town in east Kentucky.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 8:23 am to macjonesgoat
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You serious? I live in Oregon, and half the people who have been moving here are from LA. No one can afford the taxes and cost of living increases.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 8:46 am to SaintlyTiger88
I grew up in Baton Rouge but the family has always been based out of Madisonville. We may move around for awhile but sooner or later we end up back in Madisonville. My kids are the seventh generation to live here.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 7:00 pm to Bama Bird
Yeah the midwest is probably the worst area to move to when it comes to that though. At least on the west coast I can get SOME good cajun food. Also Chick-fil-a is out here, along with Raising Cane's
Posted on 8/24/21 at 7:23 pm to SG_Geaux
quote:if Pierre Part just had an HEB, solid private golf course, and a Torchy’s Taco I’d be in heaven for retirement. No lie.
LMAO Pierre Part?
Posted on 8/24/21 at 7:27 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Mine was Gainesville, Florida. I couldn’t get out of that place fast enough. Everybody I know who stayed didn’t do very well in life.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 7:29 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I dreamed of leaving and did when I was 18. Now, I long for its slow pace of life. (Morgan City)
Posted on 8/25/21 at 6:52 am to fr33manator
Ever play Metal Gear?
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