re: Leaving Lousiana?

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those weird bowling alleys where you get three rolls instead of two

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Moved to Dallas from New Orleans after Katrina. I absolutely hated it the first year here. It was such a culture shock. After that it got better & learned to love it. The women here are best in America geographically in between Miami & Scottsdale. It’s unreal.

Now thanks to China & Derek Chauvin, Dallas is a SJW dumpster fire. Unfortunately New Orleans isn’t any better right now. The money is better here though.

lived in Houston burbs 3y and thought I was excited to move back to BR. for the same priced house, in BR I got 2300sq ft. and in TX it was almost 4000.

the property taxes were high, but no state tax, and you didnt have to play the stupid catholic school shuffle to avoid shite public schools. move to where your school is, golf cart your kid there in the am. TX burb schools are better than the BR private options.

the infrastructure seems like it's a century behind. the low income hoods in houston look like the entirety of BR. it's absolutely filthy and you don't realize it's such a shithole until you leave and come back.

not a tx-supremacist, most other places' burbs are like this.

all that said, I'd be happy on land outside st Francisville, eunice, ruston, northshoreville.
but I'm over suburbia, and cities in general, but that's another topic entirely.

I guess I have to say it one more time. There is no such thing as a good public school. Are you looking at what's happening around the country? This is the result of GOVERNMENT schools. The best government schools are far worse than your average catholic/parochial/private school. The government schools are full of SJW teachers and you are seeing the results!

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there is a whole new world of opportunity out of LA, embrace it, you can always go back and visit but I guarantee
1) the longer you are away, the more you will appreciate where you moved to, except SE Texas, still way too close and the culture is the same
2) you will be able to tolerate LA less each visit unfortunately
3) your visits will be shorter and less frequent unfortunately...

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Nailed it!


Welcome to the club. I left 15 years ago like most college folks do. You will miss it for a few years leaving friends and family but once you find a good job and start a family then you wont miss it so much. The one thing you will notice when you go back is how bad the whole infastructure is in Louisiana. Whether it be roads , bridges ,schools ,cities , health care etc...some places may look 3rd world to you. Your quality of life will be better trust me.Nothing will ever come close to LA culture, food but sometimes that is just not enough.

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I guess I have to say it one more time. There is no such thing as a good public school. Are you looking at what's happening around the country? This is the result of GOVERNMENT schools. The best government schools are far worse than your average catholic/parochial/private school. The government schools are full of SJW teachers and you are seeing the results!

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ok so I think we'd agree on some of that, but catholic schools in BR all use the exact same curriculum as the public schools, so good luck avoiding the brainwashing. you're just brainwashing your kids without the violence that public schools bring.

where do you think catholic/private school teachers get their degrees? austro-libertarian free market think tanks? no. public institutions.

by "better schools," in either the private or public sense, all you're saying is that you're putting your kids in a school where the other parents give enough of a shite and can afford to put them there.

if you want a classical liberal free thinker that can recognize the fact that progressivism has won such a complete and total victory that its "enemies" hate it through a progressive lens, then you need to homeschool.

there are tons of very well put together, interactive public schools that blow any private Louisiana school out the water.

Midland is DOW HQ country, so I dont doubt it's good shite.

ol boy was just bitching about gubmint schools, and even great gubmint schools are still pro-gubmint.

"Culture" is great if you want to drink, eat and party but by quality of life and measures and raising a family, Louisiana is near or at the bottom of the country.

With any luck, I’ll be right behind you.

Growing up living right outside NOLA and having a birthday that, at times, falls on Mardi Gras, I grew up wanting to buy a place on a parade route. In love with our sports teams, damn near every weekend is a fair/festival, and I don’t have to go on about the food. I’ve always rooted for NOLA but that has recently, finally, broken. While I do think Katrina had brought about a revival of sorts helping to remove blight and repurposing much of our downtown buildings that were emptied due to greener pastures, that revival has been in spite of the the previous and current administrations, not because of them. Policies coming from the state level sure aren’t helping things either. It’s become too hard and tiresome to root for it against those who actively try to destroy it through stealing your money and destroying your property whether by pocketing your taxes in the back room or not spending it on the infrastructure needed to keep from flooding and providing the most basic public services like paved roads and police presence. All this while thinking things will get fixed by erasing history.

I’ve got plenty of friends, family, and loved ones here that I’ll miss tremendously. NOLA has given me great memories that will be missed as well, but those can be made elsewhere. It’s time to let go. They can have it.

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There are zero potholes in Midland Mich. Dow paves ALL the roads.... plus there is not even a bus station there and the only RR tracks are by Dow Chemical. If I had a kid that needed the proper schilling and environment to live in it would be there.... However it is boring as frick........