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Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:08 pm to philly444
Had a job lined up before my last semester out of state. Moved out of state, but only lasted a year. The culture just wasn't the same, and missed my friends and family. I found myself driving back every other weekend anyway. I gave it a shot and found out it wasn't all what it was cracked up to be. Plenty of money to be made here and you still get great food and Go-cups
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:10 pm to kingbob
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It is hard to quantify the value of one's support system. It is hard to put a dollar price on seeing your friends and family every day. It's difficult to monetize the feeling of knowing that everywhere you go every single day you will interact with people you have known for your entire life. There is a certain connectivity to the land, a deep-rooted belonging that comes with living in such a place. It is something most people from outside of Louisiana do not understand until they spend time here. Most people in the North move where their jobs are. Their home towns mean little to them. They're just the location of their dad's job. In Louisiana, it's a part of you. The very soil beneath your feet is a nearly sacred birthrite. For outsiders, it is impossible to truly understand. For those who were raised in it, it often goes unnoticed and unappreciated.
I think this can be said of the South in general. It's something that Yankees don't understand.
That said, I did leave Louisiana. I do believe that you can leave the state for a better quality of life and still be close to loved ones who remain there.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:10 pm to AUCE05
Yes, right away but that is because there were better job opportunities. I would advise looking out for yourself and determine what you want. Some people need to get out and expand horizons, while others have all that they want there in LA. Despite all the bad, there is a lot of good in Louisiana. Will I ever move back, after 12 years probably not? Family is set here in Texas and this is where my current career is and the options just are not in Louisiana for what I do.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:12 pm to kingbob
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Most people in the North move where their jobs are. Their home towns mean little to them. They're just the location of their dad's job. In Louisiana, it's a part of you. The very soil beneath your feet is a nearly sacred birthrite.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:13 pm to philly444
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And if so, what was your reasoning behind it? Job lined up? Just to get away?
Yes
Both
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Leaving LA sounds very appealing but I can't imagine leaving all my friends and family here behind. Not to mention all the (job) connections already in place here that I've made over time.
Get over it man. You'll get older and realize there is nothing in that state. I always wanted to go back, but not anymore.
And what connections? You want to be a little fish in a small pond working for a family business with a low ceiling? -- because that's all that state really offers anymore.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:14 pm to philly444
The disservice is not checking out other things.
Home will always be there. Move to a big city, get a job, make work friends who are in the same position as you, and party your arse off until you are ready to settle down. At a minimum you will appreciate what you have at home.
Home will always be there. Move to a big city, get a job, make work friends who are in the same position as you, and party your arse off until you are ready to settle down. At a minimum you will appreciate what you have at home.
This post was edited on 6/16/17 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:15 pm to kingbob
Jesus Christ....
It's a shite hole state. Get off your high horse atop your soapbox.
It's a shite hole state. Get off your high horse atop your soapbox.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:15 pm to LouisianaLonghorn
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I do believe that you can leave the state for a better quality of life and still be close to loved ones who remain there.
Of course you can, but it's all a balancing. It all comes down to the quality of your family and friendly relationships in Louisiana verses the economic advantages of relocation. Sometimes, it's absolutely worth it and sometimes its not.
No matter how much I love South Louisiana and no matter how much I loathe much of what I see going on in its governments, I still carefully weigh the balances of leaving and staying.
With that said, the number of places I would even consider leaving for is incredibly small, and the price would be likely far higher than I would be likely to get.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:16 pm to philly444
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And if so, what was your reasoning behind it? Job lined up? Just to get away?
Yes, and no I didn't have a job immediately lined up.
We just wanted to experience living somewhere else, if only for a brief time. We were born and raised in LA, and were just beginning our careers and had no children tying us down. Made the move and have really enjoyed it.
I recommend everyone living outside their surrounding hometown for at least a bit. You learn a lot about what's outside your bubble and about yourself.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:16 pm to philly444
Yes, 4 days after I graduated.
Moved to Dallas to go to graduate school at SMU in the fall.
Ended up hating grad school and dropped out, but stayed in Dallas because there were actually jobs there. Made lots of friends, experienced failure, learned to deal, grew up.
Then moved to SF.
Actually thinking about moving back to Dallas to be closer to family and friends because I'm 51 now...and those things matter more now than ever.
Moved to Dallas to go to graduate school at SMU in the fall.
Ended up hating grad school and dropped out, but stayed in Dallas because there were actually jobs there. Made lots of friends, experienced failure, learned to deal, grew up.
Then moved to SF.
Actually thinking about moving back to Dallas to be closer to family and friends because I'm 51 now...and those things matter more now than ever.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:19 pm to philly444
I feel for the people that grow up in Louisiana and never leave.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:20 pm to philly444
I wanted to leave, but it was 2008 and LA still had Katrina money while everywhere else was crashing. No regrets. Met my wife and had a good time. I left seven years after graduating.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:22 pm to Grandioso
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I feel for the people that grow up in Louisiana and never leave.
Meh, I wouldn't go that far. I'm glad I moved, and I encourage others to do so as well if they have the opportunity, but some people are perfectly content and happy there. No need to feel sorry for them, it's what they want out of life. Nothing wrong with that, just not for me.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:22 pm to pjab
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make work friends who are in the same position as you
If you move to H-town, it's not like you really leave home anyway. Most of my friends in the burbs (I know another thread exists for that already) are mostly from LA. We all got out and survived. We talk about back home and being that LA lets us back in to visit, it's all good and LA even lets us spend our Texas money over there.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:23 pm to philly444
I went to college in Texas.
Left Texas after graduation due to military service.
Returned to Texas ASAP after I left the service.
Left Texas after graduation due to military service.
Returned to Texas ASAP after I left the service.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:24 pm to philly444
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I can't imagine leaving all my friends and family here behind.
Is this why people stay in Louisiana their entire life? I left my friends in family in Houston to go to LSU, and stayed in BR for about 8 years. I then left my friends in BR to move to Dallas. You make new friends wherever you go. Get out and try something new.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:24 pm to philly444
No
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:24 pm to Displaced
I guess you've never lived in a town where everyone knows your name and you know theirs. Where everyone knows and cares about everyone. Where you can walk out your front door and walk to your aunts and uncles houses all on the same block. Where everyone looks after one another in a time of need. Where you grow up knowing your cousins and seeing them every day. It's not just parades, go-cups, drive-through daiquiris, fried seafood on french bread, mosquitos, humidity, brown water, and a murder rate that would shame Kabul, Afghanistan. South Louisiana is the biggest small town on planet earth. The sheer volume of connection is like 7 Degrees from Kevin Bacon on steroids. It's a certain permanence and sense of belonging I have felt nowhere else.
This state gets a lot of things wrong, but damn it if it doesn't get a lot of stuff increadibly right.
This state gets a lot of things wrong, but damn it if it doesn't get a lot of stuff increadibly right.
Posted on 6/16/17 at 1:26 pm to philly444
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