re: How has your hometown changed since you’ve been alive?

Cabot, Arkansas when I was born there was a small nice town surrounded by pastures. Now you can barely distinguish it from Little Rock metro area its grown so much due to white flight

Miami as a whole is much better. Becoming a very beautiful city with so much to do. The city was coming out of it's dark age when I was born. This place really is booming.

When I was a little kid the skyline was pretty mediocre. It is pretty amazing now and only growing, they're building taller towers daily. We're starting to have many skyscrapers here. Photos don't do it justice and they're always outdated. Ridiculously affluent city now. All the wealth from South America sits here. We’re basically their connection to the rest of the world so Miami is only going to grow larger as South America grows.

In my suburb there are so many Russians, I use Russian daily now. I'm still not great at it but it's never a skill I thought I would be developing. Everything here is somewhat different to completely different. Little Moscow/Moscow by the Sea is nice

West Monroe = meth now

It's sad man. I don't see why it's dead. Low crime, still a lot of well to do areas, everyone just spends all their money in metairie.
There is little that appeals to ther middle class. Everything is cheap food, cell phone stores, gyms or payday loan places.

There east has more retail.

Grew up in Natchez. My parents left town and moved to a bigger city when the plant that my dad worked for shut down. I’d guess that Natchez was home to roughly 20,000 back then. Now I’d guess much closer to 10,000. It seems to be a shell of what it used to be.

Grew up in Mamou. Loved it. Things are not great, but at least it's not the absolute shite hole that Ville Platte has become.

None of the stores that were open on the courthouse square in my hometown are there anymore. Most are boarded up now. That includes a drug store, a hardware store,and a furniture store. It's been that way for at least 20 years.

They have a nice, new high school that's much larger than the old one, they needed it after they shut down several more rural schools in the parish. They're better in Football and basketball, but not as good in baseball. Don't know about track. Those are the only sports boys play. They're 3A, same as when I graduated.

There are two other high schools there. One is a Christian private. The other is a really nice charter school.

Lake D'Arbonne is still there, but no Folly Beach!

I haven't been back in 18 years but Starkville grew quite a bit in the 4 years after my final year. I've heard the campus changed quite a bit as well...especially motorized traffic restrictions. I don't think I'd know the best way to get to the stadium nor the ideal hotel (thinking that may still be in West Point or Columbus)

Dulac seen the decline when NAFTA was passed back in the Clinton days. Back then, Grand Caillou had 15 different shrimp processors 10 Ice Houses and over 30 docks to unload. Now they are down to under ten docks and ONE shrimp processor.

Population growth is just fancy boat rich uppies buying condos at Southern Comfort.

All the land outside of the new Levees will be gone in 20 years or so cause there is no sediment growth from any tributaries.

They still have Ceanas and Bayou Hardware but that’s it.