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re: Escaping Your Hometown
Posted on 8/23/21 at 8:26 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 8/23/21 at 8:26 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I left my hometown, Bogalusa, when I enlisted in the Air Force long time ago. After I retired I settled in Baton Rouge to be near family who had moved here. Every time I go to Bogalusa, which isn’t very often, I’m thankful I left. It’s really gone downhill.
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Posted on 8/23/21 at 8:33 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 8/23/21 at 8:45 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Moved from Baton Rouge to Texas 21 years ago. I wouldn't move back to Baton Rouge at this point. It's no longer the town I left behind. We will be moving to south Mississippi in the near future though. Texas has been good to us but I'd like to be closer to family and friends as the later years tick away. My family is scattered all over southeast Louisiana and my wife's family is in the Biloxi area.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 8:53 pm to SaintlyTiger88
A week after graduating from LSU I packed all of my worldly belongings into my 86 4Runner and headed West with no plan. That was 26 years ago and I'm still out here. New Orleans was a fun place growing up and people love hearing my stories but I'm glad I left.
Pretty soon will be making next and maybe final move wherever that may be.
Pretty soon will be making next and maybe final move wherever that may be.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:03 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Started over somewhere else. Highly recommend it if you have a tolerance for a little risk. Most people are too risk averse.
For many it has NOTHING to do with risk and everything to do with family.
This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 12:32 am
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:06 pm to mikelbr
I couldn’t wait until I graduated high school to get the hell out. I wasn’t becoming a shrimper or working on an oil rig. There was way more to life and I knew it. Sadly, about 90% of my senior class did not and they’re all still there.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:18 pm to BeachDude022
I left home at 17 for college. Came back every weekend for the first semester. Joined the military saw the world and life outside of my bubble.
I love to visit where I grew up but am much better where I am.
I love to visit where I grew up but am much better where I am.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:20 pm to Warfox
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MT or northern-most Georgia on Carolina borders is where I’d love to build my retirement bunker, so-to-speak.
Good options. We are close enough the second area for easy vacations. Love the area.
MT is crazy expensive but I'll eventually, hopefully in a very long time, inherit some of the land on my grandfather's ranch on the Yellowstone River so would love to just do a small place there.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:23 pm to HoustonChick86
Left home at 18 for LSU and never looked back. Left Baton Rouge after LSU and some life experience. Been on the beach/Gulf Coast for 11 years. You couldn’t pay me to move back to Louisiana
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:24 pm to HoustonChick86
Knoxville is a great town
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:25 pm to Bigfishchoupique
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John Mellencamp
Johnny Cougar
John Cougar
John Cougar Mellencamp
John Camp Cougar Melon
Melon Cougar Camp John
Camp John Melon Cougar
John Melon Camp Cougar
John Mellencamp
I get the other guy’s spirit. It would probably be BS’s best, as he is far and away the most overrated American rock star of all-time.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:31 pm to Paul Allen
We love it. It's an absolute perfect fit for our family.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:32 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It's overrated and I'd like to go back (at least to Tuscaloosa). I think it helped me grow significantly and I needed the room to grow in such a way, but building a social life from scratch is damn near impossible. The food sucks here, the air quality sucks, the roads suck, and the people (for the most part) suck.
Also, if you ever think of moving to Pennsylvania be warned that the sun never shines here. I'm not joking at all: it's overcast every single day. Maybe 90 days with sun a year
Also, if you ever think of moving to Pennsylvania be warned that the sun never shines here. I'm not joking at all: it's overcast every single day. Maybe 90 days with sun a year
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:50 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Left my hometown to explore other states and cities when I was younger. Now I live and teach English in Brazil. I love it.
This post was edited on 9/2/21 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:52 pm to fr33manator
You serious? I live in Oregon, and half the people who have been moving here are from LA. No one can afford the taxes and cost of living increases.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:55 pm to r0cky1
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Being in a cool new shiny place isn't all that great especially if you can't see immediate family if the drive is over 5 hours in my opinion.
Sometimes I think the family issue is overblown. Admittedly I did not grow up in a very happy home. Getting out was my goal and I moved away as soon as I could. Same for my sister. We are still reasonably close and talk and visit in person as often as we can.
As for my children, one is still in town, the other has moved away. Guess which one has the most fulfilling life…the one that moved away.
To each their own, but living permanently in the town you grew up in just seems a challenge.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:59 pm to Bama Bird
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The food sucks
That is a problem every southern faces when we move to somewhere else in the U.S. Unless you are in a giant city and even then half the time the food sucks. If Spain didn't suck so much economically I would love to live there.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:59 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I left for about 9 years in college, between time and grad school, went back after that but just recently moved back to Baton Rouge
Posted on 8/23/21 at 10:00 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Moved away for several years. Moved back several months ago. Would never live here if I was starting from scratch. Came back mainly to be near aging family. Thinking about leaving again next year.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 10:12 pm to macjonesgoat
That was probably the biggest surprise. It's something you don't even really think about- you just assume there are good places everywhere. There are not
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