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re: Louisiana residents: REALISTICALLY, where else would you live?
Posted on 7/15/23 at 12:47 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 7/15/23 at 12:47 pm to Jim Rockford
Red River?
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Posted on 7/15/23 at 12:59 pm to kingbob
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I’ve been applying for jobs there the last few weeks. If I could find a job that pays me enough to live in San Diego, I would take it and never look back
Are y'all sure San Diego is all that? I watch California Insider show from time to time and he shits on the present state of SD from its unaffordable housing to growing homeless encampments to burglary, local politics etc. Not sure the SD from 5 yrs ago is the same one today...caveat emptor.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 1:21 pm to Tomatocantender
It wouldn’t be anywhere in Cali. Pretty place to visit.
Colorado close choice but I’d get tired of winters.
Me prob mid size or smaller city in TX or FL
Colorado close choice but I’d get tired of winters.
Me prob mid size or smaller city in TX or FL
Posted on 7/15/23 at 2:44 pm to Tomatocantender
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Are y'all sure San Diego is all that?
It's not, but it's 72 and sunny all year long, and Louisiana is like living inside of wet sweat rag 90% of the time. I've been muggled by homeless people and shot at multiple times in South Louisiana over the last couple years. Could it really be THAT much worse? This summer is absolutely f&%king miserable, and I'm sick of it. There aren't economic opportunities here any more. The entire region is dying. I feel like I have to emigrate or die. It'd be nice to live in a place where I don't feel like the sun is trying to kill me and that I need to spend all of my time from late may until October in doors.
This post was edited on 7/15/23 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 7/15/23 at 2:47 pm to kingbob
I like the change in seasons. I think my ideal place would have roughly 3 months of each.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 2:47 pm to REB BEER
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It’s hard to believe the “mountains” and streams are only 1 state away.
Western Arkansas is definitely a pretty place, and some really good outdoor opportunities. Closest place to escape the flat land to Louisiana. It was our escape when I lived there.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 2:48 pm to fallguy_1978
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I like the change in seasons. I think my ideal place would have roughly 3 months of each.
F&%k seasons. I'd rather be able to be outside for more than 10 minutes without sweating through my clothes, and I don't want to have to defrost my car before I can leave for work in the mornings. The only reason I look forward to certain seasons is because the weather the rest of the year is so goddamn abysmal.
This post was edited on 7/15/23 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 7/15/23 at 2:52 pm to kingbob
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I don't want to have to defrost my car before I can leave for work in the mornings
Me either. It’s called garage parking and working from home.
This post was edited on 7/15/23 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 7/15/23 at 2:53 pm to kingbob
Coastal Oregon or some place like that has about my ideal weather. Average temps range between about 32-85 all year.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 3:04 pm to lsudat10
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We moved to Lexington, KY.
Wife and I recently visited friends in Lexington and Louisville and we both said we wouldn’t mind living in either place. Both clean. Experience four seasons. Decent schools and like you said, access to a lot of great cities.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 3:19 pm to lsudat10
Every time these types of threads pop up, all logic is tossed to the wind. Posters are never realistic and never weigh normal factors like family proximity. They always just throw some fantasy land answers like Oregon or San Diego.
Realistically to people with family in South Louisiana means relocating to Houston or Dallas, coastal Mississippi, Alabama or the north western Florida.
Realistically to people with family in South Louisiana means relocating to Houston or Dallas, coastal Mississippi, Alabama or the north western Florida.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 3:23 pm to turnpiketiger
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normal factors like family proximity
As someone who moved back to Louisiana for family, this shouldn’t really be a factor. Family eventually gets used to you being back home. Live where you want to live. Family will move away, pass away or you may have a falling out. Who knows. But if you move back JUST for family, you’ll end up in a place you’ll be miserable at once they’re gone or once you’re not as close. It happens eventually even to families that are close and both my wife and I are close and have good relationships with our families
But we also realize how bad things are in LA and we want to end up living in a place we will be happy with 20-30 years from now when our parents are gone and siblings and kids have moved away. We also want to live in a place where our kids WANT to come back and visit.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 3:25 pm to fallguy_1978
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Coastal Oregon or some place like that has about my ideal weather. Average temps range between about 32-85 all year.
All the little towns up and down their coast are pretty awesome. Were it not for the government, there or Bend would be almost ideal places to be.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 3:32 pm to lsudat10
Won’t even say where I really live because I don’t want any Louisiana people moving here. But you’ll never meet someone who left and regretted it. Louisiana will never get better. Time to move is now. Make your parents move too if you have to. But don’t live in a miserable place because you grew up there.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 3:45 pm to turnpiketiger
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Realistically to people with family in South Louisiana means relocating to Houston or Dallas, coastal Mississippi, Alabama or the north western Florida.
You don't think plenty of people from LA move to other areas like Tennessee, North Carolina, Colorado etc?
Posted on 7/15/23 at 4:05 pm to turnpiketiger
quote:except for my cousin in Raleigh
Realistically to people with family in South Louisiana means relocating to Houston or Dallas, coastal Mississippi, Alabama or the north western Florida.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 4:08 pm to turnpiketiger
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Every time these types of threads pop up, all logic is tossed to the wind. Posters are never realistic
I hear you but this one feels different. In the past I agree that unrealistic expectations were thrown around, but there are 10 pages here that have a very consistent, uniform theme to it. The real test is when football gets here and the weather cools off, will this topic be out of sight out of mind, or does the feeling of moving out of La persist? I am in agreement with Kingbob and others, the opportunities have been sucked dry from this shithole state and the other culture is getting worse...much worse.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 4:20 pm to GreenRockTiger
My older sister left LA for California right after college never to return other than for visits.
I have friends that I grew up with living in Massachusetts, Arizona, Oregon, Tennessee and North Carolina.
I have friends that I grew up with living in Massachusetts, Arizona, Oregon, Tennessee and North Carolina.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 4:33 pm to lsudat10
Come on up to Tennessee. There's room.
Posted on 7/15/23 at 5:12 pm to lsudat10
In Missouri around Springfield, or maybe Knoxville,TN. Preferably on a decent lake. Somewhere close to a mountain range where it doesn't get too hot in the summer and it gets cold in the winter, but snow won't stay on the ground for 10 days at a time. My kids are in private school, I don't know if I would change that, but a change in scenery would be cool. Somewhere on the outskirts of a city, much like Central is to Baton Rouge.
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