re: Cost of living: Texas vs Lousiana.

The only place I’d even remotely consider living in Louisiana is Lafayette but I’d never find a decent paying job there.

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I mean, I get leaving LA, but do these baws know there are more choices other than LA and TX?

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Louisiana is fricked up in a myriad of ways but like I said, these threads always devolve into “my giant Texas suburb is better”

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Austin, San Antonio and central Texas are not flat or nearly as humid and no hurricanes. Still not as frick though

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Yeah, my sister lives in Austin. It doesn't really appeal to me. I'd much rather live in Asheville, Boise or some place like that. It's all subjective obviously.

I don’t really like suburbs in general. I prefer the small to medium towns like Boerne, Bulverde, Wimberley. They definitely have a suburban element but not all olive gardens and chili’s.

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Yeah people from real mountains aren’t impressed with small limestone hills but for someone from Metairie like me it’s pretty cool

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I'm not knocking Texas. It's a far better state than Louisiana. It just isn't high on my list when my kid gets out of school in a few years. I'm more of a Montana type. I loathe the hot weather in the South.

I’m going farther south to Central America

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Dutchtown high and Katy high have the same average act score - 26

No shot dutchotown students average a 26  

That would be on par with the top private schools in the state man. You looked at niche which is based on people’s reported scores.

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I don't believe that the ACT is required at Katy ISD. The SAT is though. In short, the Katy ACT scores are typically for "out of state" college bound only. As such, the comparison to Dutchtown self reporters is probably legit (mainly honors and gifted students). Where Katy impresses me is that it is MUCH larger than Dutchtown. It is a large sample size. In short, they seem to do a really fine job there based on the data.

No shite

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Houston and Dallas are two of the most soul-less and boring places to live. I cant imagine anywhere less I’d want to spend my 20s.

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Houston and Dallas both are absolutely loaded with gorgeous women. You must be gay, in which case they have a fairly healthy gay population too from what I've heard.