re: Are you thinking of leaving Louisiana for good?

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We read the poli board out loud sometimes to remind why we don’t live in the Deep South.



There are many parts of this country that aren't swarming with perpetually angry imbeciles

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This is a tough balance, because we love LSU. We don’t love what we consider ignorant.

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I have never had damage more than power outage and a tree down so I can't say how I would feel if my house got flooded or damaged severely. We did get a roof leak one storm from a cap or something blowing off the roof that did a couple grand in damage but it was WAY less than the storm deductible they were going by and it wasn't enough money to bother to try to fight a claim and we had a roof guy fix the actual leak on the spot when he inspected it with stuff out of his truck for a couple hundred doll hairs.

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There you go, bud. I had some extras lying around.

I was but our parents are getting old and getting a home with on a large lot of land that is still in a neighborhood seems really ridiculously expensive in other cities/decent areas.

If I were the type of person that liked homes that are kind of on top of each other, have front-facing garages, with no trees, I would move in a heartbeat. You can get that and be in much better areas in Houston, SA, Austin, Charlotte, Phoenix, NWA, etc.

I mean, people are paying $250k for DR Horton style homes in the BR area.

Seriously mulling this over right now.
My kids are in college, both living away.
Sick of paying to live in a state that offers very little opportunity.
Jobs, infrastructure, politics, hurricanes, ignorance and stupidity,
I'm fed up with it.
I'm over it. If I could convince my parents, I would do it in a minute.

Thinking of the Hot Springs, Arkansas area. Lake living.

I moved away fifteen years ago.

I miss my family, the people (best in the world), and food greatly.

However, there just aren’t the career opportunities for me in Louisiana that I have found elsewhere.

My biggest personal goal was to work as hard while away and be able to retire a bit younger (or be in a position to take a job making less with having banked some significant savings) and one day move back. I will get there hopefully sooner than later.

My heart does go out to everyone impacted by the storms this season. From the folks in Southwest Louisiana that got the worst of it and everyone else throughout the southern part of the state for the additional unneeded stress (on-top of everything with Covid).

Put the house up for sale today and decided to move to Bay St Louis.

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I have never had damage more than power outage and a tree down so I can't say how I would feel if my house got flooded or damaged severely. We did get a roof leak one storm from a cap or something blowing off the roof that did a couple grand in damage but it was WAY less than the storm deductible they were going by and it wasn't enough money to bother to try to fight a claim and we had a roof guy fix the actual leak on the spot when he inspected it with stuff out of his truck for a couple hundred doll hairs.

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Call an insurance broker if still in Louisiana... my Hurricane deductible is flat 1000$, just got a 19k check from Laura unfortunately and then had to use again for a lightning strike that fried our electronics and some breakers. Don’t ever accept insurance with a percentage deductible

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My son put it best, for him going to LSU felt like going backwards in life

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i mean i grew up in LA and going to LSU was definitely going backwards in life

but, you gotta do what you gotta do. live within your means and sacrifice for family and all that

XOM HAS dramatically changed their employment numbers, but moreso than that, the cuts in contractors and third party service providers are likely to persist. The company as a whole is in VERY bad shape, and the chances of any future expansions are stymied by idiot local politicians, exacerbated by a Governor that clearly does not care if he causes economic ruin or not. Louisiana had a very good shot at an $8 Billion grassroots petrochemical complex, but DumBel basically told XOM senior management he didn’t care if it came here or not, “take it to Texas for all I care”, so off to Corpus went the project and the many thousands of jobs it’s created. And now we sit, locked up tight, as our King comes on TV daily to scold us, while he continues to falsify data to grab more Federal dollars for he and his GumboPac overlords to spend on frivolous shite.

I lived in Houston, both my kids were born there, moved back 20+ years ago to be closer to family. Lived on the Northshore for 5 years initially, not a big dropoff from Texas, back to Baton Rouge for work, and my hometown has become a cesspool. Small enclaves of safe havens surrounded by ever growing shitty areas, apartments and subdivisions being thrown up in floodplains, driven by developers paying off MetroCouncil, no one paying attention to drainage, roads that are dogshit, historic murder rate, even while everyone is locked up, city “leaders” and officials chosen solely on race....

My elderly parents will never leave, but I surely wish my boys would. I do not see any drivers to things getting better. We sorely needed Governor Vitter, he DGAF what people thought of him, and I think he would have effected some changes the state desperately needs.

to;dr Louisiana, for all its potential, is increasingly becoming a shithole, with no signs of an upturn

Wife and I are planning on bailing out ASAP. In our line of work we could both get jobs anywhere. Make the same money and be able to afford the home we deserve on acreage, preferably somewhere that has some topography worth looking at and a climate that doesn't suck. Real estate prices in the southern part of this damn state are fricking ridiculous. I also am worried for my kids. Zero real opportunities here for them. La is doomed.