re: How are people able to just up and move states like it’s nothing and why

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Your response reads like you asked ChatGPT to reply

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I did. Quick hit for Chris Rose who says it better than I ever could. I could have spewed it from the heart but I was a few bourbons in to midnight. You got me!

Here is the heart. Rough. Sorry, gotta run in a bit....so best I got for now:

Have lived in some amazing places (London, Amsterdam, Bay Area)...amazing. And visited many more on most continents (career blessing, of sorts). Great places everywhere. Some chitty ones too, everywhere.

I like alot of places. I just like New Orleans more. A lot.

People and spirit of the place are big reasons for that, architecture, and uniqueness. There is just something about a hot roast beef sandwich from Parasol's with the avg customers who sit on the picnic tables and then a walk up/down magazine for cold beer at name your corner bar, especially the cash-only ones. There is just something about lunch at Commander's Palace with the seer sucker suits and the owner coming to spend time with your table to then stroll through Lafayette #1 cemetery to visit your family's tomb. By "tomb", I mean plot. We were not cut from that cloth. Most family are buried in Greenwood. There is just something about taking a piss at the Rock n Bowl and Kermit Ruffins comes in humming tunes he just sung in his last set or Maple Leaf on a weekday night following eating the Godzilla (that I don't think is on menu any longer) at Jacques-imos and shooting the chit with Jacques and the bar regulars. There is something meaningful in listening to 3-person musicians outside of the casino in City Park and then feeding ducks with all of the people/kid energy. One of my very favorites is marching with you favorite band down St. Charles during Mardi Gras and feeling the energy from the people who are there, from many places, re-filling their soul.

And that is the key difference for me. One fills my soul. Many other places (nice places...many very nice places) over time tend to deplete my soul. Some faster than others (insert TX big cities minus San Antonio/Austin). Just the way it is for me.

Its just in me. Many people from other places claim New Orleans as home. Interestingly, many who leave New Orleans to other places still claim New Orleans as home. I am in that number. Many are. Its real.

If I want to hang out in blight with a vibe, I’ll go one of dozens of Latin cities with colonial architecture and wonderful food. They’re cleaner and safer than New Orleans. Lol.

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Money provides a lot of freedom. People with money can do things people without money can't.

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Unless you are a childless 20 year old something minimalistic male, it’s really expensive unless you have the corporate escort. It costed my friend 30k just to move to North Carolina from Texas.

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I never understand this part. Do you stop knowing them if you move away? What is the "risk" of not living by your friends and family?

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Unless you are a complete incel, there’s plenty of reasons to want to have friends and family.

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Unless you are a complete incel, there’s plenty of reasons to want to have friends and family.

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I moved 1,000 miles away from Chicago 3 years ago. I still have friends and family. That's my point. It whooshed right over your head.

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I moved 1,000 miles away from Chicago 3 years ago. I still have friends and family. That's my point. It whooshed right over your head.

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Obviously I did not care otherwise I would’ve stayed. Why are you arguing with me about it? I’m accustomed to being independent and building from ground zero, but there’s plenty of people that are not.

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To some people moving is about one step below death and others can pick and move without a thought.

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The first group should not join the military.

I moved 4 times in the first 6 years.

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Since time immemorial, people have relocated for money. It’s strange this it’s strange to you.

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There’s plenty of places where you couldn’t pay me enough money to move to lol.

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I can’t imagine working a job, and being “transferred” to another state and just being like, “okay, yeah I’m going to pick up my entire life and move to a different state because my company said that’s what I need to do”. It just seems like such a ridiculous concept to me.

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I’ve never been transferred, but it’s ridiculous to you someone might take a transfer for a promotion?

Got ya, thx!

Hear you. Good people everywhere. Especially saw it on Houston end of receiving Katrina (my 2nd of 3 tours of Htown), Allyson before that and Harvey after both.

The unique spirit I’m speaking to will generally not be found in Pappasitos (love that food!), in the homes that populate the corporate boxed buildings that shape Houston’s skyline, or even at George Strait at NRG during Rodeo. I looked hard for it a few times over decade stay. Not to say I did not find great people. Sure did. Some of best friends in / around Htown. Just big focus on rat race (broadly speaking). Therein starts to divide the spirit I speak to.

I-45 turns a soul into a raisin faster than the sun. In my experience.

Gotta run. So cutting it there, prematurely.

Like Katy! My CFP is there and from where I took decision to retire. BTW, Htown great for those professional things! I’d be hypocrite if no nod there.

Love me some Hill Counrty though. Now that does not harm a soul. Plus this time next week I will be in FQ Fest. Soul will be beaming in May!

Take it easy.