re: I don’t get it- How is Louisiana failing this bad?

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Come on to Birmingham baw. The place is doing well, and we keep a thumb on our culture.

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My brother lives in Trussville and loves it.

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Dude, I would not base my decision to stay in or leave Louisiana according to who wins the election. You posted a picture of the bag of rocks regarding politicians here.

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Were not letting it be the deciding factor but more of a trigger clause. Essentially any shred of hope will be lost.

Louisiana is a Banana Republic and the politicians are (and have always gotten wealthy). As far as your wife some Medical specialties do very well in Louisiana.
So I guess my advice if you want to stay in Louisiana run for office

I agree many areas La shits the bed but with my work I am in the general public all the time and meet people on a daily basis almost who moved here recently or moved here a long time ago and they all seem to absolutely love it. I was at work at my main job this morning with 2 guys from Texas, one did IT in Austin and the other is from Fort Worth and owned a lawn business and did oil field work for awhile, he's also in La now.

A friend of mine moved back from Houston, hated it there, hated the people, hated everything about it except the money and of course the schools. His family is much happier here. My side job I did a windshield for a lady from Missouri, they moved here 2 years ago, don't remember what part of the state, absolutely love it here. I live in north La at that.

I make just below national average at fire department I work for and right at national average doing windshields, granted I"m expensive for my area. I pay low property taxes and my house is a hell of alot cheaper than it would be in most other states. We are all happy, our friends all seem happy as do all my co-workers, many of them from other states.

I"m almost 40, lived in the worst areas of Monroe you can live, I know it's not BR or NO but still bad. Did have my truck broken into once, other than that never feared for my life, never threatened or anything. Lady I did work for in Missouri I was replacing a door glass that got broke from someone while she was visiting family so not like it can't happen anywhere. My 4 kids all make straight As in school and have one in college now doing great. It's all how you look at it. If money is the most important thing to you then yeah, I'd suggest go live somewhere else.



ETA: Saying all that, Louisiana needs to lose the Sportsman Paradise label. At least as far as north La, Weyerhauser has recently whored out former WMA land to a real estate company putting in trailer parks. There's literally trailer parks on former WMA land. That's for a whole different thread though. La is dropping the ball for hunters of the state, along with many other things.

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Huntsville, AL.

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Huntsville just got named to have the Lunar Landing Program. It's going to boom even more

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I'd go to Atlanta

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Gross

The first reply is the perfect example of the fricked up mindset of the people in that state.

The OP is still half an idiot, but he's right on most of what he said.

It’s hard to get a good builder here. We are building right now. I talked with 5 home builders here. Interviewed 3. Ended up going with the builder our architect has worked with a bunch. All quotes we received were over $300/sf. Avg being $350.
Coming from build costs in Louisiana we don’t have anything in our plans that justify that kind of price. But that’s what people are paying here. All the builders I talked to gave us a 12 month time frame. And it is cheaper for us to build what we want than buy what we want.

I am partially at fault because I helped vote for the Pols that destroyed it.

Problem is, there is really no strong opposition party that will do the right thing. The last one was Jindal, and he sucked.

JBE is doing EXACTLY what a Prog governor would do to a state.