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re: If you were considering moving back to Louisiana...where?

Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:25 am to
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
37052 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:25 am to
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People that boast LA culture are the same people that vacation 1 week a year in Destin, FL & think it's the greatest.


Yeah, no.
Posted by thegreatboudini
Member since Oct 2008
7186 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:26 am to
I'm on board with you. I'm born and raised in rural Louisiana, thought it was god's gift to earth. Went to LSU and ULL. Then spent some time in Texas but am back in Louisiana for the current moment. I am just waiting for my moment to get back out of this state. Louisiana culture is great, and I'll carry it with me forever, especially in my cookbook, but this state lacks so much it is pathetic.
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
78328 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:26 am to
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ypical response from people who have only ever lived in LA & nowhere else. The sheer small minded mentality that LA has to be the only place in the world with great culture is mind bottling...

Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
78328 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:27 am to
He makes a good point though. I know people like that from LA.
Posted by forever lsu30
Member since Nov 2005
4039 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:28 am to
We have a good bit in common.

Interesting how people who have actually LEFT this state understand just how much better the world is out there.

As soon as my wife's elder in the family dies off, we are gone back to Texas!
Posted by AtlantaLSUfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2009
27191 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:29 am to
I lived in DC and Atlanta for 15 years. Came back to Baton Rouge to raise my family.

Zachary and other suburbs have great schools, but we use the private schools in BR. They're all pretty awesome from what I can tell.
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
37052 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:30 am to
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I'm born and raised in rural Louisiana, thought it was god's gift to earth


I was born and raised in rural Louisiana and I thought it sucked, but to say that cookie cutter Texas has more culture than Louisiana is laughable.

Louisiana obviously has its flaws, but a lack of culture is not one of them.
Posted by notiger1997
Metairie
Member since May 2009
61723 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:30 am to
Old Mandeville.
And don't get fooled by the Livingston Parish group wit their claims of it being this great place to live with awesome schools.
Posted by dewster
Chicago
Member since Aug 2006
26608 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:31 am to
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If you were considering moving back to Louisiana...where?


I wouldn't move back at least right now. I think given Louisiana's current leadership and economic climate, it's a couple of years into what could be a decade-long tail spin. It's sad to see.


If I were moving back, I'd go to Baton Rouge or Lafayette.
This post was edited on 5/12/16 at 9:33 am
Posted by PortCityTiger24
Member since Dec 2006
87455 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:32 am to
Blanchard, Benton or Stonewall.
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
37052 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:33 am to
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He makes a good point though. I know people like that from LA.


I definitely know people like that, but that isn't who I am at all. I did actually go to Destin this past weekend, but that was far from my only vacation this year and I don't think it's the best place in the world.

I don't think that Louisiana is this great place by any means.
Posted by forever lsu30
Member since Nov 2005
4039 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:34 am to
No one said or has likely ever said that Louisiana has a lack of culture.

Also, Texas is far less cookie cutter than you apparently know. Sure: Houston, Austin, San Antonio, & DFW are all shining examples of cookie cutter. But that's the testament to the growth & strong economy. Still PLENTY of culture in the big cities (just gotta know where to look) & all throughout south, central, east, & west texas.
Posted by Big Block Stingray
Top down on open road
Member since Feb 2009
2089 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:34 am to
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I don't get why like these places so much, I get that they are nice and have great massive schools and feel the need for 65 million dollar high school football stadiums, but its because they are new cities. designed from the ground up. Cookie cutter houses and neighborhoods, filled with chain restaurants and shopping centers. Its all too fake for me. no culture, very few family restaurants, no history to the city no culture. like I said sure its nice but its way to fake for me. plus


WRONG on so many levels.
Posted by thegreatboudini
Member since Oct 2008
7186 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:35 am to
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I was born and raised in rural Louisiana and I thought it sucked, but to say that cookie cutter Texas has more culture than Louisiana is laughable.


So you went visit your uncle and aunt one time in Katy and you automatically think the rest of the state is like that? Keeping up with the small mindedness I see
Posted by Big Block Stingray
Top down on open road
Member since Feb 2009
2089 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:38 am to
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You can see that in parts of Allen and west Frisco especially. It's good if you have kids in schools (Frisco at least) but home prices are exploding and apartments are popping up like crazy, thanks in fact to the down times in the late 2000's when the land was sold from developers to commercial ones. And the California influx thanks to Toyota is sucking balls




McKinney is is under the same fate. Since named #1 place to live in the entire country home prices have skyrocketed and and so has the influx of transplants from North and West coast.
Posted by LSU_Saints_Hornets
Uptown NO,LA
Member since Jan 2013
9739 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:39 am to
Destrehan
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
37052 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:41 am to
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So you went visit your uncle and aunt one time in Katy and you automatically think the rest of the state is like that? Keeping up with the small mindedness I see


My uncle lives in DFW, not Katy

But no, I've been to Austin (twice), Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth all in the last two years. They aren't bad cities and there are great job opportunities out there, but they are all cookie cutter.
Posted by AtlantaLSUfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2009
27191 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:43 am to
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Typical response from people who have only ever lived in LA & nowhere else. The sheer small minded mentality that LA has to be the only place in the world with great culture is mind bottling


I travel America for work, I've been everywhere. I promise I've lived in more places than you. You've quite obviously a TX native.

Louisiana has truly the best people I've encountered anywhere. I was away from 1996 until 2013 and moved back. I don't care if your cookie-cutter town has clearer shopping centers, Louisiana is the greatest state in America because it's soulful and real. It's enriching.

I been everywhere: beautiful small towns in New Hampshire were great but boring. Montana is stunning but it's 2 hours to the next city. Southern Cali makes me want to poke my eyes out. Houston is literally the armpit of America.

I'll debate anyone here who fails to realize the gem that is this state.
This post was edited on 5/12/16 at 10:09 am
Posted by TigerWise
Front Seat of an Uber
Member since Sep 2010
35131 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:44 am to
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So you went visit your uncle and aunt one time in Katy and you automatically think the rest of the state is like that?


No shite, not all the suburbs in Texas have bums hanging around.
Posted by Big Block Stingray
Top down on open road
Member since Feb 2009
2089 posts
Posted on 5/12/16 at 9:45 am to
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but they are all cookie cutter.



In some aspects sure but so is Louisiana. Louisiana has their on type of cookie cutter homes and chain restaurants and stores.
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