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re: Having a hard time justifying remaining here..
Posted on 8/30/21 at 7:10 am to ElRoos
Posted on 8/30/21 at 7:10 am to ElRoos
I love the people in Louisiana as well, but I have learned that people in NC are great. Bust out the jambalaya pot, boil pot or the grill and people will soon learn to love your culture too.
As long as your family lives in LA, you will have uneasy moments during storms. I have 20-30 people in prayer groups praying for Louisiana, my neighbors brought over fresh baked cookies and a bottle of bourbon to cheer us up - haha.
As long as your family lives in LA, you will have uneasy moments during storms. I have 20-30 people in prayer groups praying for Louisiana, my neighbors brought over fresh baked cookies and a bottle of bourbon to cheer us up - haha.
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Posted on 8/30/21 at 7:11 am to elcid
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But but but, they got rid of the statues!
frick off
Posted on 8/30/21 at 7:14 am to SouthernStyled
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The rest of us have been asking for years. Why does it take the addition of a hurricane to see the light?
My wife and I were talking about that last night. Now take it that we have only been to NO once but from a outside view, how could you guys want to stay there. Now I do admit, we know little about the place but it has to be getting rebuilt every damn year or two. So much damage keeps happening, when do you guys just give up?
I did really enjoy the stay we had there but staying there a week and having to deal with what you guys do every year has to be mind boggling. Respect for those that fight for staying in their home land but man, I would GTFO at some point.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 7:20 am to The Third Leg
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Hey, move to the least sustainable city in the world, where we get under 10” of rain annually and morons are still irrigating lawns.
Maricopa is one of the fastest growing counties in the US. Several businesses moving their corporate offices here.
Clearly there is a huge appeal
Posted on 8/30/21 at 7:53 am to lsunurse
Not to be insensitive, but use this as fuel to get out. There’s never been a better time than during Covid to reevaluate your life and make a change
Most companies are now letting workers be remote.
You can always go back and visit
Most companies are now letting workers be remote.
You can always go back and visit
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:00 am to Tommy Noble
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After this storm. Between New Orleans myriad of long standing problems, new vaccine passport mandates from our dipshit mayor, and these storms becoming seemingly more frequent and intense, I think Im just at the end of my rope.
I'm by no means a New Orleans cheer leader. I've actually grown tired of the city once I turned 30, in part because of all the major issues. The lack of opportunity there being the biggest.
But here's the rub.
Every place you live is what you make of it. If you've got a good job and you are near family....you are probably exactly where you need to be. I've lived in a half dozen cities in my life. None are perfect. They all have positives and negatives. I am choosing to relocate my family from Chicago to Baton Rouge next year because it's the right choice for me.
I could enjoy New Orleans if I wanted to as well.
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And this obviously extends beyond New Orleans to all of south LA and the rest of the gulf coast.
Honestly if you are concerned about hurricanes but still want to stay near family or with your company in New Orleans, you should not rule out the rest of the state.
Again...the north shore, Baton Rouge, or Lafayette certainly aren't perfect either. But they might be viable alternatives if you want to stay close to family or your employer while also avoiding the worst of the hurricane threats.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:05 am to lsunurse
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Maricopa is one of the fastest growing counties in the US
Only by draining resources that others now cannot use. Resources that are so rare in the desert that it should never support over a million people. Its not a sustainable area.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:06 am to d2
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I love the people in Louisiana as well, but I have learned that people in NC are great. Bust out the jambalaya pot, boil pot or the grill and people will soon learn to love your culture too.
If you can adapt, you can thrive anywhere. If you can't, you're stuck.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:06 am to lsunurse
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Maricopa is one of the fastest growing counties in the US. Several businesses moving their corporate offices here.
Clearly there is a huge appeal
Spent a lot of time there and love it.
But family is in Louisiana (along with my wife's career path), so we are headed there next year. I'm buying land that isn't prone to flooding and is well north of I-10 to avoid the worst of the hurricanes. I know full well that there will be times I'll have to evacuate. Certainly not as often as living in New Orleans proper, but the threat is still there.
But that also seems like a fair trade for my daughter being able to know her grandparents while avoiding Chicago's winters.
This post was edited on 8/30/21 at 8:10 am
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:07 am to Tommy Noble
NB4 getting called a traitor
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:14 am to dewster
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Every place you live is what you make of it. If you've got a good job and you are near family....you are probably exactly where you need to be. I've lived in a half dozen cities in my life. None are perfect. They all have positives and negatives. I am choosing to relocate my family from Chicago to Baton Rouge next year because it's the right choice for me.
I understand the perspective, but I can't see things this way. Both my wife and I were employed, making more than enough money for what we need, my mom was a block down the road and brought us dinner, and we visited her parents a couple times a week. And it was maybe the most miserable time in our lives.
I do agree with you, everywhere is what you make it, but there are some places that are better than others. And sometimes moving somewhere new, even if the new place is on par with the place from which you relocated, can be what someone needs to have a better attitude about life.
I've also lived in about the same amount of cities, and I agree that none are perfect, but I'd rather be homeless in Boise than financially secure in Alexandria. That's just what I've experienced.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:20 am to dewster
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But that also seems like a fair trade for my daughter being able to know her grandparents while avoiding Chicago's winters
I lived in Chicagoland for awhile. I'll take a hurricane every weekend over Chicago winters.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:22 am to Tommy Noble
I agree. I love my family, I have some great friends....but there is a whole other world out there that I've seen and now it's time to go be apart of.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:28 am to Odysseus32
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but I'd rather be homeless in Boise than financially secure in Alexandria.
Yep, some folks are more motivated by location than guaranteed financial success. I'm one. I'll make a living anywhere I choose to go.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:31 am to Tommy Noble
Let us know when you find a place with no natural disasters and no type of Covid restrictions where no one is getting sick.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:32 am to OweO
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Let us know when you find a place with no natural disasters and no type of Covid restrictions where no one is getting sick.
or less.
That's generally what people prefer. The world isn't all extremes.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:34 am to Tommy Noble
North Alabama is a pretty awesome place to be these days. Tennessee has no state income tax, if you want to go a little further north.
This post was edited on 8/30/21 at 7:22 pm
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:35 am to Tommy Noble
One bad storm every 16 years.... chill bro
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:39 am to SouthernStyled
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The rest of us have been asking for years. Why does it take the addition of a hurricane to see the light?
My SO has a job that is niche and specific to here. We can’t move unless he plans to fly back in every other week, which sounds exhausting.
If I could, we’d move to Asheville area in a heartbeat
Posted on 8/30/21 at 8:53 am to Cobrasize
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It’s hard to leave a place you love and consider “home”. I understand.
No it is not. Once you make up your mind or have it made for you by outside circumstances (i.e. relocation due to work) it is really quite easy. All you have to do is make up your mind and move past the I'm from here and I will die here mindset (I'm only referring to the OP not saying that there is anything wrong with the mindset or staying in your hometown in general) the hardest parts are finding a job and packing your shite and moving.
I speak from personal experience. Except for going to college at LSU or NLU/ULM and service in the military during WWII and Vietnam my family has lived in the same parish in NELA since the 1840s. After I graduated from LSU, I decided that I didn't want to do that and I have lived in 5 different states and 3 countries in the last 10 years. From my experience, I would recommend either Florida or Texas. Both have better career prospects (depending on careers of course), better taxes, better infrastructure, better schools, and what I would consider a higher quality of life. Plus both are close enough to Louisiana that if you get to missing it or you are close with your family you can visit them easily. Unfortunately both have to deal with heat and hurricanes, but if you get a house that is not likely to flood and have a backup generator then it ain't no big thing. I would not recommend West Virginia or NYC. West Virginia is as bad as Louisiana as far as schools and infrastructure and the people go, but you have to deal with mountains and snow instead of hurricanes. NYC is a bigger clusterf**k than NOLA and Baton Rouge combined and it is expensive as f**k and you still have to deal with snow.
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