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re: How many of you are planning to live in Louisiana your entire lives? Why?
Posted on 4/30/19 at 3:56 pm to Paul Allen
Posted on 4/30/19 at 3:56 pm to Paul Allen
Because those are the cities most Louisiana ex-pats are moving to and where the overwhelming majority of posters on this site who go on and on and on about how much Louisiana sucks and insulting any and everyone who chooses to continue to live there, currently reside.
If someone in San Diego or Denver or NYC was telling me how much BR sucks, I wouldn’t be so fierce defending it as when someone living in Houston, Dallas, or Atlanta derides it.
If someone in San Diego or Denver or NYC was telling me how much BR sucks, I wouldn’t be so fierce defending it as when someone living in Houston, Dallas, or Atlanta derides it.
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Posted on 4/30/19 at 3:58 pm to WaydownSouth
I'm not planning on living here my entire life, I didn't really plan to live here after my wife finished school but oddly enough she received a great offer in Lafayette of all places. I had already made accommodations that would allow us to move anywhere, but when it came down to it Lafayette was the best professional fit for her (and it didn't hurt that I grew up around here), so we moved to Lafayette.
We don't necessarily have plans to stay here, but we probably will unless some great opportunity arises. We often talk about moving back to New Orleans though.
We don't necessarily have plans to stay here, but we probably will unless some great opportunity arises. We often talk about moving back to New Orleans though.
Posted on 4/30/19 at 3:59 pm to kingbob
Plenty of Louisiana people are also moving to Nashville, Chattanooga, Austin, Tampa, Charleston... it’s not as myopic as Dallas, Houston and Atlanta.
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:02 pm to WaydownSouth
Inheritance. Only child and only heir left on my moms side
Parents House paid off and over 400 acres (with wells and timber) in 4 north louisiana parishes. 90% of family live in north LA/southern Arkansas.
Parents House paid off and over 400 acres (with wells and timber) in 4 north louisiana parishes. 90% of family live in north LA/southern Arkansas.
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:03 pm to Paul Allen
And I don’t bash Nashville, Austin, Charleston, or Tampa, do I? Each of those places offers something totally unique that the others, and Louisiana, do not:
Nashville has an incredible music scene and is fairly close to scenic mountains and ski resorts
Austin also has an incredible music scene and fantastic bbq
Charleston and Tampa have great beaches.
I don’t mind when those people criticize life in Louisiana. I’d love to live in any of those places, and if I’d gotten any job offers in those cities, I would have likely take them. Unfortunately, all my out of state offers have been for Houston or some place in the middle of absolute nowhere.
Nashville has an incredible music scene and is fairly close to scenic mountains and ski resorts
Austin also has an incredible music scene and fantastic bbq
Charleston and Tampa have great beaches.
I don’t mind when those people criticize life in Louisiana. I’d love to live in any of those places, and if I’d gotten any job offers in those cities, I would have likely take them. Unfortunately, all my out of state offers have been for Houston or some place in the middle of absolute nowhere.
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:05 pm to kingbob
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:14 pm to Epic Cajun
quote:trashy
Lafayette
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:14 pm to WaydownSouth
I’m in my mid 30s and plan on staying here the rest of my life. I enjoy hunting and saltwater fishing too much to leave for another state.
Have right at 1000 acres in Tensas and 300 acres on the LA/MS state line in St. Helena that I hunt and my brothers and I also own a camp in Grand Isle.
For all the shitty things in this state, the hunting and fishing is what makes me stay. There’s no other state with better saltwater fishing and the deer we kill on our place in Tensas are incredible. LA is truly Sportsmens Paradise.
I’ve also been blessed with an outstanding job. I’ve been blessed/lucky
Have right at 1000 acres in Tensas and 300 acres on the LA/MS state line in St. Helena that I hunt and my brothers and I also own a camp in Grand Isle.
For all the shitty things in this state, the hunting and fishing is what makes me stay. There’s no other state with better saltwater fishing and the deer we kill on our place in Tensas are incredible. LA is truly Sportsmens Paradise.
I’ve also been blessed with an outstanding job. I’ve been blessed/lucky
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:14 pm to jimbeam
Youngsville and Broussard, maybe, but Lafayette is the least trashy city in this state.
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:15 pm to kingbob
Joke
<—-Lafayette resident. And I wouldnt say youngsville is trashy
<—-Lafayette resident. And I wouldnt say youngsville is trashy
This post was edited on 4/30/19 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:17 pm to jimbeam
I would
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:17 pm to Paul Allen
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Why don’t people compare similar sized cities and not top 15 major US cities?
I agree, but could you also tell that to the posters who insist that New Orleans has a better restaurant scene than New York?
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:19 pm to AbitaFan08
Certainly not better overall, but I would argue that per capita, New Orleans may be the best food city in the world. However, it is nearly impossible to compete with cities 10 times its size like New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo.
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:21 pm to WaydownSouth
I live on the same land my family originally settled. I'm not going anywhere.
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:22 pm to kingbob
Per capita is a different discussion altogether. But I've seen the discussion of "top food cities" and people insisting that #1 was New Orleans.
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:23 pm to WaydownSouth
I moved out of Louisiana for the first time in 2015 to go to Houston/Katy, and it sucked balls. Houston is hot, ugly, characterless, and the people have no ties to it. I moved a year later to Western North Carolina. The weather is incredible, I have a 5 minute drive to work, the surroundings are beautiful, there are no roaches, and there is a lot to do being near all of the National forests. What I miss is proximity to water, good food, and I mostly miss the people. Appalachians are different from the gulf south. My wife and I continue to say though, if money were no object, we would want to live in Louisiana. Alas, taxes and insurance in LA are ridiculous.
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:23 pm to AbitaFan08
Yeah, that’s just illogical. Top 10 worldwide, possibly. Top 5 in the U.S. certainly, but #1 in the world, absolutely not.
Posted on 4/30/19 at 4:47 pm to AbitaFan08
quote:
Per capita is a different discussion altogether. But I've seen the discussion of "top food cities" and people insisting that #1 was New Orleans.
Who the hell knows?
I’m not well-traveled enough to have spent ample time in Paris, NYC, San Fran, Albuquerque and other top food cities.. but i have lived in a few different states, was born and raised in NOLA and, having lived there as an adult until recently, there are so many good restaurants that i every time we decided to go out for dinner, it was always hard to decide where to go.. forget trying new restaurants , that’s a whole other ball of wax, but even old standbys- there are so many of them that are truly great; from the Quarter to Uptown to MidCity, hell you could drive your arse out to Manchac and have some good seafood at Middendorfs, or way out to the Westbank and dine at Mosca’s- or a hundred places in between.
I don’t want to be so myopic as to suggest that NOLA is ‘the best’ when it comes to food, but as far as someplace that revolves around eating, and where the old cliche about people around the table talking about where they’re gonna go for their NEXT meal is absolutely true- New Orleans doesnt have many equals.
ETA: i meant Sante Fe, not Albequere, lol
This post was edited on 4/30/19 at 5:56 pm
Posted on 4/30/19 at 5:01 pm to WaydownSouth
Your Handle is WayDownSouth and you’re complaining about the Deep South? What a fig! Bye Felicia!
Posted on 4/30/19 at 5:42 pm to WaydownSouth
Friends, family, and job are all here. One of my biggest hobbies is outdoors and its hard to beat SE LA. No crime where I live (Northshore) and great schools. Traffic is bad but no place checks all the boxes above.
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