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re: Living in New Orleans and maybe Louisiana in general is a hard way of life.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 12:54 am to p0845330
Posted on 9/1/21 at 12:54 am to p0845330
I just moved from BR to Missouri July 29. It just wasn't worth it to stay anymore. Corruption, criminal politicians, laziness, incompetence, willing stupidity, useless social services, decrepit infrastructure, failing schools, & crime levels acceptable to the population & so I finally said frick it I'm out.
This is not to say these things do not exist in Missouri, but the entire state is not made unlivable!!
I miss a few people but nothing else.
Life is livable here. Life is better here. Louisiana will continue to lose good hardworking people. Sad shame the criminals running Louisiana don't give a shite. But the tax base is rapidly disappearing.
This is not to say these things do not exist in Missouri, but the entire state is not made unlivable!!
I miss a few people but nothing else.
Life is livable here. Life is better here. Louisiana will continue to lose good hardworking people. Sad shame the criminals running Louisiana don't give a shite. But the tax base is rapidly disappearing.
This post was edited on 9/1/21 at 1:04 am
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Posted on 9/1/21 at 1:05 am to tigerbait3488
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State politics, yearly hurricanes and evacuations, infrastructure and crime…its just not good all the way around. Am I correct on this? Why would anyone want to raise a family here?
I've lived in places with statistically the lowest crime in the world. Thievery repaid with your hand being taken. Infrastructure executed with asian efficiency and old world british grit. And effectively zero natural disasters.
Honest assessment? It sucked complete and utter a-hole.
Your mistake is expecting a city full of transplants to represent Louisiana. New Orleans was invaded post Katrina. Baton Rouge lost its way in the late 80s. It went from an up and coming city... To just a bigger college town.
Louisiana's merits are found in its people. It's found in small towns. The wealth that permeates a group of people largely unqualified to make the incomes that they do.
I drive all over this country for vacations. I avoid interstates. I enjoy going to places most people would never see.
I can tell you that there are great and amazing places to live all over this country... But a lot of them are very poor. I can tell you that cars/trucks in 98% of the country are considerably older than they are here. I can tell you that a lot of people live in homes I wouldn't even consider good enough to be a camp.
In Louisiana, my days, weeks, months, years, are permeated with repeated gatherings. Feasts if you will. Celebrations of times of plenty. Simple gatherings that seem so routine that we fail to realize they are uncommon for 99% of this country.
You can focus on the failings of our elected officals (they almost always suck... Everywhere). You can focus on the grades of our school systems (flawed because of the number of private institutions, a carryover because of our heavy catholic influence). You can focus on our crime rates (odd how it is almost entirely isolated to some areas).
But having traveled through and lived in a vast number of places, I can say there are only three places I would consider living outside of louisiana in the US. Coastal South Carolina... But that would just be an attempt to recreate home. Eastern Idaho, good people. Or the Dakotas: oddly paradise for the working man. ...but none have that joie de vivre I wake up for.
Life is, and will always be, what you make it.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 1:09 am to BRgetthenet
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You like seeing homos naked?
Louisiana is great even with cocksuckers like you.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 1:13 am to X123F45
Rando Callresian,
That was a great post.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 1:20 am to tigerbait3488
Hurricanes bite! I am typing this from generator power as I await 1:30am work meeting.
Lived in TX (3-times), CA, IL, and London...all have great things. None make me nearly as happy (New Orleans area people and way of life), warts and all. In fact, some of the warts make me happy. I have found my least happy days with manicured gardens with neighborhood names like "Blissful Crossing" with great looking schools (note the looking) and more yogurt choices in the grocery stores than the perfect-looking women eating it. Hardly find a grandpa/grandma and grandkid together at a restaurant. No smell of crab boil, dear Lord that should be enough for most--and the sense of joy that flows from the event that gravity pulls around it or the music that fills its air.
Little things are the big things, I have found...and the ones that matter most to me involve family (not just nucleus jogging on the finely planned trails of the neighborhood), food (not just the fine food that comes out of the always very full restaurants because family dinners are too much work), football, and festivals. Togetherness, in general.
But that's just me.
And hurricanes do bite. Until I find myself playing chess with my son or games with the family, giggling at the absurdity of eating a frozen pizza, some queso, and left over pepper steak and rice & gravy (before its goes bad), giggles that would have escaped our average Tuesday.
But, they do suck...in every place I have experienced them.
Lived in TX (3-times), CA, IL, and London...all have great things. None make me nearly as happy (New Orleans area people and way of life), warts and all. In fact, some of the warts make me happy. I have found my least happy days with manicured gardens with neighborhood names like "Blissful Crossing" with great looking schools (note the looking) and more yogurt choices in the grocery stores than the perfect-looking women eating it. Hardly find a grandpa/grandma and grandkid together at a restaurant. No smell of crab boil, dear Lord that should be enough for most--and the sense of joy that flows from the event that gravity pulls around it or the music that fills its air.
Little things are the big things, I have found...and the ones that matter most to me involve family (not just nucleus jogging on the finely planned trails of the neighborhood), food (not just the fine food that comes out of the always very full restaurants because family dinners are too much work), football, and festivals. Togetherness, in general.
But that's just me.
And hurricanes do bite. Until I find myself playing chess with my son or games with the family, giggling at the absurdity of eating a frozen pizza, some queso, and left over pepper steak and rice & gravy (before its goes bad), giggles that would have escaped our average Tuesday.
But, they do suck...in every place I have experienced them.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 1:21 am to BRgetthenet
I do try.
And I do have the benefit of a house at a nippy 59 degrees.
All I know is I came very close to going bamboo in my 20s. And I'm thankful every day that I did not.
And I do have the benefit of a house at a nippy 59 degrees.
All I know is I came very close to going bamboo in my 20s. And I'm thankful every day that I did not.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 1:27 am to X123F45
Louisiana is circling the toilet.
Good times don't make up for that. Neither does your ridiculous claim about old cars. Got any stats to back that up? Or just defending a failed state?
So glad I left that sad backwards state.
Enjoy the shite you live in.
Good times don't make up for that. Neither does your ridiculous claim about old cars. Got any stats to back that up? Or just defending a failed state?
So glad I left that sad backwards state.
Enjoy the shite you live in.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 1:49 am to Zeitgeist62
I can assure you, we don't miss you.
Nor would anyone else if your absence were more permanent.
Nor would anyone else if your absence were more permanent.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 3:22 am to Lester Earl
Still triggered by white patriotic Americans I see.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 3:24 am to X123F45
My life just greatly improved. Yours will suck until you die a-hole.
Enjoy the shite.
Enjoy the shite.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 5:00 am to BPTiger
quote:Such as?
You do t have all of the good stuff elsewhere that Louisiana has.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 5:31 am to tigerbait3488
In modern history im pretty sure FL gets 2x as many hurricanes as anywhere else. LA has gotten worked lately but in the long run FL is always going to get more.
So if canes are a huge motivating factor for anyone leaving LA, moving to FL certainly isn't going to remedy that.
So if canes are a huge motivating factor for anyone leaving LA, moving to FL certainly isn't going to remedy that.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 5:35 am to BamaCoaster
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Very rarely do I meet someone who has moved out of LA and moved back.
I know someone that had to move back in with family out of necessity. Spent about a year, and then GTFO first chance they got.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 6:18 am to tigerbait3488
Neither one of my kids will live in Louisiana. Just too many other good options.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 6:32 am to tigerbait3488
The politicians in this state are more destructive than the storms but we keep electing them. We are our own worst enemy.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 6:38 am to tigerbait3488
I would say living in coastal areas is worse than others based upon the natural disasters, but Kansas and Oklahoma have tornado's so you likely have something whereever you live.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 6:41 am to tigerbait3488
I moved from Baton Rouge, LA to St. Augustine, FL last summer and I love it here. I will never live in Louisiana again.
Posted on 9/1/21 at 6:42 am to tigerbait3488
We moved to the Ms Gulf Coast. Still have a lot of Louisiana culture and cooking but better state leadership and roads. We are also only 2 hours from LSU
My son is moving to Zachary soon for his job. I told him he would love Zachary
My son is moving to Zachary soon for his job. I told him he would love Zachary
Posted on 9/1/21 at 6:46 am to tigerbait3488
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Why would anyone want to raise a family here?
Literally the only reason worth a frick is that you have other family here.
And even that reason is starting to feel like it’s not enough.
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