re: Cities in Louisiana where youre surprised they keep alot of local kids with colleg degrees

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No boudin outside Louisiana. Truf

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You know the thing is that out of all the people that leave LA, some do know how to make it and sell it quite well.

McNeese has plenty of "stay home" students based off of opportunities from the industries and surrounding area. WTF are you talking about?

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You know other than like Mandeville, I think this is a full state problem.

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I wouldn't have thought anyone would want to live in Mandeville after graduating college, either. Seems like there's a real hole in the demographic there between about 19 and 35 years old.

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Thibodaux

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Left for LSU and came back to Thibodaux after my coke head boss blew all his cash and I lost my job. Never was planning on staying. But I’ll tell you why. Plenty of work. Medical, oilfield, construction, plants. Quick shot to New Orleans , Baton Rouge, Lafayette. Good private schools. Plenty of recreation, fishing hunting. Cost of living although increased like everyone else, still remains very doable. All that being said there is still plenty of room for improvement.

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LSU is basically an apparatus to prepare LA people for their move to Houston

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nailed it. The HTX alumni parties are lit.

Surprisingly, seems to be Metairie/metro New Orleans area for my crowd:

Older LSU daughter graduated bachelors in nursing, left the nest and was an ICU nurse at Ochsner Baptist for 2 years, now at LSU's nurse anesthetist doctorate program and says she will stay.

Other LSU grad daughter went away to College of Charleston for MBA, got a nice job in Metairie and came home; lives in a house with 2 friends.

LSU grad nephew got a job with a marketing firm on the northshore shortly after graduation. His fiancee started her own photography business here after graduating a year after him and is doing well with that (both were sports photographers while at LSU).

Was talking to a friend at church in Metairie this past Sunday; asked how his son (Jesuit grad who had earned a full ride to Texas A&M about 5 years back) was doing; he said he got a nice engineering job working for Entergy and was living in Harahan.

Many other stories around me like that. We must be doing something right...

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Thibodaux

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Yes it’s a horrible place. Please stay away.

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I would assume that people who go to college in their home towns have a much higher rate of remaining in those places than people who leave home for college,

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My anecdotal experience is a mix. I'd say 90% of my friend group that stayed in town for college are still there. 40% of my friend group that went out of town for college returned home.

Out of my high school graduating class, the 90% still holds true, but the amount who went out of town and returned home probably climbs to 60%.

God Bless the residents of the beautiful state of Louisiana, but I personally did not stick around after college - and neither did many of my family and friends.

Louisiana has such amazing potential - and my childhood in the 80’s-90’s was amazing - but it has since continued its downward back-slide into decay - and said potential woefully squandered/misappropriated.

I have great hope and faith that my children (Gen Alpha) and their children’s generation will turn it around for the better(and the United States as a whole) - if only because that’s approximately when I believe everything is going to come to a head and hit the fan - necessitating some form of systemic change, hopefully from the local level up this time.

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and my childhood in the 80’s-90’s was amazing - but it has since continued its downward back-slide

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Your childhood in LA was amazing because you weren't reading the papers and watching the news about companies moving to Texas over punitive taxation put in place by the Louisiana legislature back then.

Louisiana's trajectory has been downward since at least the days of Huey Long, and that's due to the voters. Their concern isn't their careers, it's making sure they can go see their cousin in Opelousas every other weekend, and have a boat that is worth more than their doublewide to go fishing every weekend, etc. They will turn a blind eye to political corruption, put up with public schools that are utter trash, and make excuses for anything and everything. But culture!