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re: LA ED Secretary Bourgeois says Lafayette could become the most populated area of the state
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:09 am to sledgehammer
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:09 am to sledgehammer
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UL is going to try to get into the SEC.
Well, they ARE a college team while LSU is about to be a semi-pro.
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Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:10 am to Deadmanshand
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A large percentage (though still minority) of the students in the engineering school are Middle Eastern or Indian sub-continent.
Are they on F1 visas?
Can't work for SpaceX if so
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:15 am to TIGERHOLD
The state needs peaceful places to live that don’t require $18k a year in private school and neighborhood security patrolling. Lafayette has New Orleans beat there. New Orleans has more Thai fusion and craft coffee.
This post was edited on 9/2/26 at 8:18 am
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:15 am to baytiger11
Lafayette things they are gonna reap the benefits from Space X. But even with added revenue in the city, I have no confidence that they will fix anything if their shitty infrastructure. Until they figure it out Lafayette will be the worst layed out city in the state. They can add extra population it won’t matter.
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:20 am to stout
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They will fill in for LSU when the SEC kicks LSU out. The SEC rant told me this would happen
Must be true
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:21 am to ProjectP2294
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Populated with what kind of people though?
Ones with jobs. That’s what these types of projects create. I know….a new concept for folks in Louisiana.
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:22 am to SlowFlowPro
The traffic is already thick in laffy on a regular day, I can not imagine more cars on the road. My daughter who is at ULL pointed out to me the other day that there is no major hwy that goes through the city.
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:23 am to stout
Hopefully better people. Surrounding areas, including Abbeville and New Iberia could use an influx.
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:27 am to SlowFlowPro
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That's going to be fun in the city with the most nonsensical transportation grid in the US
My wife (no pics) is a training manager from Chicago. She had to do a stint in Lafayette a few weeks ago, and she was basically in tears of frustration from the traffic there.
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:31 am to Dixie2023
It’s an hour commute (55 minutes) from Maurice to Pecan Island where the Space X Starbase LA is located.
Lafayette is another 6 miles or so to the closest parts by the Acadiana Mall.
I would think that Kaplan would see most of the growth with only half of that commute time. Kaplan gonna be the new Youngsville.
Youngsville had 1 grocery store as its only business when I was riding my bike there from the Comeeaux High area as a teen chasing girls, and now is chock a block with retail businesses and high end subdivisions.
From the Kaplan area it’s 30 minutes to work and 30 minutes to Laffy for going out to eat or shopping etc…. Before long new restaurants in Kaplan would spring up as well just like they did in Youngsville.
Those SpaceX engineers not gonna want to ride in their FSD Teslas for two hours a day back and forth to work.
Maybe Elon will bore a tunnel from Pecan Island to Laffy, lol.
Lafayette is another 6 miles or so to the closest parts by the Acadiana Mall.
I would think that Kaplan would see most of the growth with only half of that commute time. Kaplan gonna be the new Youngsville.
Youngsville had 1 grocery store as its only business when I was riding my bike there from the Comeeaux High area as a teen chasing girls, and now is chock a block with retail businesses and high end subdivisions.
From the Kaplan area it’s 30 minutes to work and 30 minutes to Laffy for going out to eat or shopping etc…. Before long new restaurants in Kaplan would spring up as well just like they did in Youngsville.
Those SpaceX engineers not gonna want to ride in their FSD Teslas for two hours a day back and forth to work.
Maybe Elon will bore a tunnel from Pecan Island to Laffy, lol.
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Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:32 am to tigafan4life
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My daughter who is at ULL pointed out to me the other day that there is no major hwy that goes through the city.
Yea and a million red lights on the main connector road
Nightmare fuel
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:32 am to Donkus
With Lake Charles being the LNG hub of the world and Lafayette now becoming a rocket and space hub, I look for the 2 metros to grow more together into one bigger metro
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:34 am to PSS101
Crowley will be the new Fredericksburg
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:34 am to PSS101
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I look for the 2 metros to grow more together into one bigger metro
RIP Jennings as a quaint, drug-infused town?
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:38 am to NIH
Or Arlington, Tx
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:40 am to ProjectP2294
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Populated with what kind of people though?
People who annoy you
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:41 am to SlowFlowPro
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That's going to be fun in the city with the most nonsensical transportation grid in the US
Is there any kind of dreamed up master plan for transportation other than connection i-49 south? Loop?
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:41 am to stout
Elon has rented a home in New Iberia
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Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:42 am to stout
Thank Goodness they planned ahead and built the new loop.
Posted on 9/2/26 at 8:42 am to tigafan4life
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My daughter who is at ULL pointed out to me the other day that there is no major hwy that goes through the city.
I am so spoiled because this is what I grew up with and live with now:
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