re: How can you not love Louisiana? Drive thru crawfish, frozen margarita, beer, boudin balls

Good to see you back

Goddamn. These threads always reveal what a bunch of miserable fricks post here. If you are so damn unhappy then MOVE YOUR arse to where you want to go. Get the frick out of my state and don’t look back. Both of us will be happier for it.

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You seem bitter.

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I am. But Friday was my last day of work in Louisiana and I drive up with my family to my new state this week, baw.

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Get the frick out of my state and don’t look back. Both of us will be happier for it.

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You're typical of alot of native Louisianians. You believe this state is in some way special and when it's called out for the fricked up place it really is. Your answer is "leave".

Instead of demanding more from the people here and it's leadership, your answer is to hold the exit door open for the educated producers of this state. The people who bring something to the frickin' table.

The people bitching aren't miserable. In fact, the people bitching are in all likelihood more successful than those who think trivial things like food make a place worth living in.

You're ok with settling for the silliness of "food and culture" but you're not alone. Alot of native Louisianians have been inculturated to settle and when they're confronted on that, like you they get angry.

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All the Louisiana hating people here love their current place they live in so much they waste all of their time posting on a Louisiana message board. Is your current state so poor they don’t have their own message board? These same people will tell people they are from Louisiana when on vacation instead of saying their current state they live in. They hate Louisiana so much on here but still claim it. GTFO and find another message board losers.

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I post here because LSU is my team. Plenty of family as well as my wife, and myself (for a semester) went there. This is not a Louisiana message board. It's an LSU message board. Go to city data forums if you're looking for a purely area-based message board.

And I think it's silly to not talk about the issues of a state. My wife and I moved because we didn't fit in there. As much as people like to say that folks are generally the same everywhere, it's not really true. Sure we all want generally the same things; safety, family, love, etc., but the way people go about things up here are better than down there. I'm not speaking for people below I10 or in Shreveport/Monroe, but specifically in Cenla there was a strong attitude in which everyone around me was either too obsessed with hunting, fishing, working, and getting wasted to do anything of substance. Anything else that wasn't the status quo for a male in Louisiana was met with backlash. I got weird looks for riding a bike to save money, wanting to start any sort of business got me "who the frick do you think you are" look, anything that wasn't coffee, work, hunt, fish, drink, kids, church was met with disdain by MOST. frick taxes to fix roads, have a better school system, pay teachers, and do a myriad of other things that help the place they live. Public transit? Buy a jacked up F250 and roll coal on people like a real American.

Not all people, but enough people that it made sense to leave the area altogether.

I'm likely generalizing, and maybe I just hung around the wrong people, but that was my experience for 2.5 decades in that state. The only reason I think I lasted as long as I did was because of football. But eventually those days end, and I looked around and half the people I went to high school with were gone. And the ones who left were the smart, interesting, funny, driven ones. And I wondered why. And then I left, moved to Idaho, and it was pretty clear within a few weeks how backwards we have it in Louisiana. Don't get it twisted, Idaho has PLENTY of the same problems as Louisiana. But, in my experience, people are actively working to fix those issues. Yes, it's slow rolling, but heads aren't buried in the sand.

It's always gonna be home, and my entire family lives in Louisiana, but I can make Jambalaya up here and visit every 4-6 months.

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Glad you and your husband could find a place where y’all fit in better

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Thank you for proving my point.

Have fun with your atherosclerosis.

LA is fine if you have some money. If you make over 100K a year then LA can be a very good place to live in that you can buy your way out of the bad schools, neighborhoods, towns and so on.

I love LA culture and food and most of the people, but spend time in other states and you realize how fricked up LA is. Texas isn't so great either.

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But what about the "business degree" types that have to leave the state? What does it say about this fricked up place that no one wants to do "business" here?

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They love to see the stock market go up, yet think an accounting/economics degree or an MBA is a waste of time.

Love to watch TV/Movies, yet hate people in Hollywood.

Love music, yet think the world would be better off if those who went to school to study music took up a trade.

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Calm down Nancy

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Fudge Packer, I mean, Pandy Fackler, is just even more pissy and negative than her usual bitch self because she predicted that LSU had no chance against Bama this year and would go to the "kotex bowl" as she said and then later said Clemson would beat LSU by double digits because they had a better defense, etc. Now she has to live in this shithole and endure a purple and geauxld orgy at least until football season starts again following LSU having the greatest college football season of all time. It's not a good time for her, so please don't tell her to calm down.