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re: Is it weird that I love Louisiana
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:40 pm to BamaCoaster
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:40 pm to BamaCoaster
It was a great place tp grow up
Then
Caused us to choose to leave
It vould be an amazing place if they could fix those issues.
Then
quote:
Insurance
Litter
Education
Culture of poverty
Caused us to choose to leave
It vould be an amazing place if they could fix those issues.
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Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:40 pm to BamaCoaster
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Culture of poverty
Not sure you can classify Louisiana as having a culture of poverty. Culture of poverty exists within Baton Rouge and NOLA but it also exists within every major city in the US.
This post was edited on 11/6/23 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:41 pm to TigahsOnTop
quote:
Is it weird that I love Louisiana
Louisiana is awesome.
A great many of its inhabitants, especially in the larger cities, are what really foul it up.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:44 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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idk… This board HATES Louisiana. It’s still a pretty good place to live if you have an upper middle class income.
If you can make a good living here than it's fine in some areas. There are a lot of good people in LA, but it's a poorly governed state.
My least favorite thing about it is the terrain and weather.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:46 pm to fallguy_1978
I loved Louisiana until about 1988 or so.
Then the future became clear and crime became the norm.
Then the future became clear and crime became the norm.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:49 pm to WG_Dawg
I live in the woods. October-November are just lovely. Trees look like fruity pebbles. Weather is great. The other 10 months are…months
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:50 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:Camp LeJeune ruined everything
I loved Louisiana until about 1988 or so.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:52 pm to RogerTheShrubber
We mostly stayed to raise our kids around family, my family at least.
It's unlikely we'll stay where we currently are much longer, but I guess we'll see what the housing market looks like in a few years. It would really sting to sell my 2% mortgage and buy at 7.5% when I'm almost 50
It's unlikely we'll stay where we currently are much longer, but I guess we'll see what the housing market looks like in a few years. It would really sting to sell my 2% mortgage and buy at 7.5% when I'm almost 50
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:52 pm to TigahsOnTop
quote:
Is it weird that I love Louisiana
frick no it isn't. Be proud. If more people put effort into their community and just didn't bitch about everything, it could get better. I hate how so many that live here talk so down about it. Every city, state, country has issues.
Good fried of mine is in the military and has lived all over. Loves his small country home town. He would talk it up to all his other military buddies. A few finally came in and saw how we live, how we interact, et. They said, "Ok, I get it now."
Sure if you live in an area that has virtually no life to it, no community, no sense of pride, yea it's going to suck. Sure we have ample space for improvement, but it's never made me want to pack my shite up and move to another state. California seems like a shite hole from what you read, but I'm sure there are nice places.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:53 pm to fallguy_1978
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We mostly stayed to raise our kids around family, my family at least.
There were some good rural areas back in the day with strong communities, but all of that has been destroyed.
After I left, most of my siblings did as well. Then my parents moved.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:54 pm to TigahsOnTop
quote:
Not sure you can classify Louisiana as having a culture of poverty. Culture of poverty exists within Baton Rouge and NOLA but it also exists within every major city in the US.
Have you ever driven through rural Louisiana before? Poverty is probably worse in these areas than in urban ones.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:55 pm to RogerTheShrubber
You live in Alaska, I’m sure it’s awesome living isolated like that but not feasible for like 99% of us.
I love LA, and traveling to other places has only made me realize that more. It seems like everywhere I go the people are either complaining about how it’s declining or it’s totally overcrowded.
I get LA has problems but it’s home and I enjoy it here.
I love LA, and traveling to other places has only made me realize that more. It seems like everywhere I go the people are either complaining about how it’s declining or it’s totally overcrowded.
I get LA has problems but it’s home and I enjoy it here.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:57 pm to TigahsOnTop
It's such a beautiful state. Absolutely gorgeous with everything it has to offer. From inspiring landscapes and native wildlife, it's truly just breathtaking.
Would love to relocate there someday and retire there and never leave.
Would love to relocate there someday and retire there and never leave.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:58 pm to hubertcumberdale
quote:
Have you ever driven through rural Louisiana before? Poverty is probably worse in these areas than in urban ones.
Drive through literally any rural area in every state. It’s all the same shite.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:58 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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There were some good rural areas back in the day with strong communities, but all of that has been destroyed.
After I left, most of my siblings did as well. Then my parents moved.
My hometown was sort of a rural suburb of BR.
It's been developed a lot in the decades since I've lived there, but it was a close-knit community and a nice place to grow up. I fear it's going to go downhill due to geographical location.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 1:58 pm to TigahsOnTop
No. You are right, we are not short of any downfalls and the government sucks, but I feel like there is something here that is just different than other states.
What I mean is.. What is probably the most "woke" city in the US? Portland? Portland white population is 77%, Hispanic is 9.4%, Asian is 7.7% and black 5.7% yet they are all about BLM. In Louisiana they have to bus people in to protest for BLM. The last time, I guess 2020, election year, during the pandemic.. Actually it was after the election, but a black dude I know told me "BLM ain't nothing but nwords trying to get money from nwords". I told him they probably get more money from the silly arse white people who feel like they have to save black people and we were jut BSing around and he something like "well its some nwords trying to get money to help themselves"
And this is just one dude, but he has spoken against BLM from the jump, Louisiana's own Kevin Gates speaks out against BLM.
Kevin Gates view of black people
I just feel like there is less pretending here. If that makes sense. And I am not saying that means everyone is like this, but there isn't as much fake outrage.
I was listening to Theo Vonn's latest podcast with Tucker Carlson. Carlson was talking about somewhere he used to live and he was describing it and Theo asked if it was too "Truman Show". And he said yes. It looked perfect, but there was no personality. And here, despite all the crazy shite, there is something real about Louisiana.
It seems like there are people all around the country having pro-Palestine protest. If something like that takes place here, its not going to be too many people. Its like we are the state that isn't worried about fitting in.
What I mean is.. What is probably the most "woke" city in the US? Portland? Portland white population is 77%, Hispanic is 9.4%, Asian is 7.7% and black 5.7% yet they are all about BLM. In Louisiana they have to bus people in to protest for BLM. The last time, I guess 2020, election year, during the pandemic.. Actually it was after the election, but a black dude I know told me "BLM ain't nothing but nwords trying to get money from nwords". I told him they probably get more money from the silly arse white people who feel like they have to save black people and we were jut BSing around and he something like "well its some nwords trying to get money to help themselves"
And this is just one dude, but he has spoken against BLM from the jump, Louisiana's own Kevin Gates speaks out against BLM.
Kevin Gates view of black people
I just feel like there is less pretending here. If that makes sense. And I am not saying that means everyone is like this, but there isn't as much fake outrage.
I was listening to Theo Vonn's latest podcast with Tucker Carlson. Carlson was talking about somewhere he used to live and he was describing it and Theo asked if it was too "Truman Show". And he said yes. It looked perfect, but there was no personality. And here, despite all the crazy shite, there is something real about Louisiana.
It seems like there are people all around the country having pro-Palestine protest. If something like that takes place here, its not going to be too many people. Its like we are the state that isn't worried about fitting in.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:07 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:
My hometown was sort of a rural suburb of BR.
I grew up in North Bossier. My neighborhood had everthing from working class to the city engineer, and school district superintendent.
People lived in neighborhoods their entire lives, rarely moving. It created community.
People are so desperate to be upwardly mobile today that they have ruined that aspect of life forever.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:15 pm to TigahsOnTop
It is not weird, and actually LA has a lot of pros.
Call us crazy but we will be relocating back to BR in a year or 2. We're fed up with how crowded and expensive S. FL got over the years. Real estate is just ridiculous. Even the beach got old for us.
Call us crazy but we will be relocating back to BR in a year or 2. We're fed up with how crowded and expensive S. FL got over the years. Real estate is just ridiculous. Even the beach got old for us.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:24 pm to TigahsOnTop
Born in Nola and grew up in Thibodaux. Graduated Nicholls and left state in '87 and started a family in Georgia. Used to think all the time about going back but too late now. Thibodaux though not perfect is a nice community. Not sure why so many on this board like to bash on Lafourche but whatever.
Posted on 11/6/23 at 2:27 pm to Tridentds
quote:all data points to none of that being true.
people are self reliant, hard working, family oriented etc... what's not to like.
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