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re: Return to small town Louisiana vs staying in the big city rat race
Posted on 11/10/26 at 5:55 am to turnpiketiger
Posted on 11/10/26 at 5:55 am to turnpiketiger
Not enough transplants from Louisiana
—Careful what you wish for. Culcha is real
—Careful what you wish for. Culcha is real
Posted on 11/10/26 at 6:09 am to cypresstiger
quote:It’s apart of Louisiana, deal with it
Careful what you wish for. Culcha is real
Posted on 11/10/26 at 6:10 am to turnpiketiger
Been battling my wife on this one for about 10 years - I'm still losing.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 6:18 am to SuperSaint
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You’re going to move to rural Louisiana and find out you have to deal with way more meth and crack heads on a daily basis shopping at Doller General than you ever had to in a week before
I saw more meth and crackheads living in nola. They sit out side grocery stores, gas stations and intersections begging for money.
Not one person has begged me for change at my rural gas station. Not once.
Hell the old black crackhead on my street in nola would come to my door and ask me to drive her to buy cigarettes. That doesn't happen now when I can't even see my neighbors.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 6:21 am to turnpiketiger
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You want Eww? Try being in the 4th largest metro area in the country yet it feels so empty due to the people.
Yeah, I'm not necessarily opposed to big cities, they've afforded me many great memories, but Houston - man, I have friends and co-workers who love it but I've always found it not to really have an identity, most folks who live there seem not to be from there, like it has no soul.
I get your wanting out of there. It may be for some and that's fine.....but sounds like not for you. I know I'd be happier in my hometown - most of my best and lifelong friends and a good bit of family still live there.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 6:22 am to turnpiketiger
Another positive about moving back, your kids won’t have to learn to speak arabic, the soon to be predominant language of Texas
Posted on 11/10/26 at 6:37 am to SuperSaint
Underrated drawback to rural Louisiana is the dogshit grocery store options. The only place to buy food within 45 minutes each way is a Super 1 and, if you’re lucky, a Walmart? That’s a piss poor quality of life. Now if you can grow your own food and buy directly from farmers and harvest deer and wild hogs and shite now that’s living. But I can’t do shopping only at Super 1. That’s like an open air prison.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 6:41 am to turnpiketiger
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So the question is, is it worth it to say screw the rat race, I’m taking the hometown discount and staying close to my roots? Have any of yall made this decision?
Yes. We are moving back home to rural Louisiana after living in a city for 20 years.
Going from a city neighborhood with 0.35 acre lot to 30 acres and a pond.
It will be different for my wife and kids, as they have only ever lived in cities, but I'm excited. My kids act excited. My wife...is getting there
Posted on 11/10/26 at 6:52 am to turnpiketiger
Section 8 is ruining small towns too!
Posted on 11/10/26 at 6:54 am to BRUNNIN4
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5th behind NY, LA, Chicago, and DFW.
Fine, 4th largest city and 5th largest metro. Point stands.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 7:00 am to turnpiketiger
Moving from Houma to Houston was best decision of my life. When you have money, you can visit family whenever you want. And there are plenty of people in Houston to hang out with. If you gravitate towards the “shallow, phony people”, ignore them.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 7:01 am to choupiquesushi
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Section 8
Absolutely destroying the country
Posted on 11/10/26 at 7:05 am to turnpiketiger
One of my friends left Katy and moved to Needville which is still in Fort Bend County but on the rural edge. Believe it or not, there is still rural parts of fort bend. He bought a big old house on ten acres with a pond and his kids live the country life while also having all the amenities of suburbia and he still works in Houston. That seems like a good deal.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 7:33 am to turnpiketiger
It really depends on what you value most and what you can afford (those two may or may not be mutually exclusive).
If your job is such that you can live anywhere and do your job at the same pay, run like the wind to it. You'll have a far lower CoL and far lower stress. Win/win.
If your career is such that you can move back with little enough change to your bank account, move.
If you're going to take a massive hit, to the point where the reduced income outweighs the reduction in stress, stay put but maybe start putting more money towards retiring early or moving into a field/job which allows WFH.
If your job is such that you can live anywhere and do your job at the same pay, run like the wind to it. You'll have a far lower CoL and far lower stress. Win/win.
If your career is such that you can move back with little enough change to your bank account, move.
If you're going to take a massive hit, to the point where the reduced income outweighs the reduction in stress, stay put but maybe start putting more money towards retiring early or moving into a field/job which allows WFH.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 7:38 am to turnpiketiger
A couple of years ago I bought a place in the country where I grew up. I still have a house in BR as I need to work for probably one more year. We spend about 40% of the time in the country and I hate leaving to come back to BR.
One more year.....
One more year.....
Posted on 11/10/26 at 7:39 am to turnpiketiger
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Well it’s rural but not that damn rural. The town I’m referring to is DeRidder
Say Hi to ex-mayor Missy for me.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 7:47 am to IS_IT_GAMEDAY
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Sure its a 35 minute commute, but once youre home, its completely worth it.
When you think about it, if you lived in BR or Houston etc., you'd still have at least a 35 minute commute. Sometimes it takes me 30 minutes to travel 2 miles in BR. Being in the country is 100% worth it.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 8:22 am to turnpiketiger
Absolutely it's worth it. Especially if you have kids. Being close to maw maw and paw paw, and able to make all the family functions or even just a Sunday dinner with your in-laws is a huge plus for you and your kids. I did it, and would do it 10x over.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 8:48 am to turnpiketiger
I left Houston for a smaller town and slower pace of life after my kids got into elementary school.
It’s not just a rat race for you.
It’s a rat race for your kids.
5,000 kid high schools in which the kids have all been going to private tutors so they can get the best grades since 4 years old, going to private hitting instruction so they can be the star baseball player since 6 years old, having a concert pianist teach them piano 10 hours a week since they were 5 years old… it’s all a rat race there to try to differentiate the kids from the others.
That’s not the environment I wanted for them.
Add to that (i) family illnesses that made it abundantly clear that putting off that trip or that lifestyle until retirement was a bad plan, (ii) the environmental issues in Houston, be it flooding or hurricanes or droughts or chemical plant explosions, (iii) the sheer size of the city, the traffic, the commute, and (iv) the overwhelming desire to find the next place to go vacation because Houston doesn’t offer any real beauty, outdoor fun or relief from a near endless summer until a pop up freeze threatens to destroy the power grid, and it no longer made sense to stay there.
We deliberately took jobs that got us into positions to thereafter take other jobs that permitted remote work. It took a couple years and a lot of pain to do it, but we got out and now really enjoy the place we live.
Did I take a pay cut? Maybe. Hard to say. But money is not going to make me happy at 65 when I finally retire and have done nothing but work and now I’m too broken physically to live well
It’s not just a rat race for you.
It’s a rat race for your kids.
5,000 kid high schools in which the kids have all been going to private tutors so they can get the best grades since 4 years old, going to private hitting instruction so they can be the star baseball player since 6 years old, having a concert pianist teach them piano 10 hours a week since they were 5 years old… it’s all a rat race there to try to differentiate the kids from the others.
That’s not the environment I wanted for them.
Add to that (i) family illnesses that made it abundantly clear that putting off that trip or that lifestyle until retirement was a bad plan, (ii) the environmental issues in Houston, be it flooding or hurricanes or droughts or chemical plant explosions, (iii) the sheer size of the city, the traffic, the commute, and (iv) the overwhelming desire to find the next place to go vacation because Houston doesn’t offer any real beauty, outdoor fun or relief from a near endless summer until a pop up freeze threatens to destroy the power grid, and it no longer made sense to stay there.
We deliberately took jobs that got us into positions to thereafter take other jobs that permitted remote work. It took a couple years and a lot of pain to do it, but we got out and now really enjoy the place we live.
Did I take a pay cut? Maybe. Hard to say. But money is not going to make me happy at 65 when I finally retire and have done nothing but work and now I’m too broken physically to live well
Posted on 11/10/26 at 8:53 am to lowhound
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Being close to maw maw and paw paw, and able to make all the family functions or even just a Sunday dinner with your in-laws is a huge plus for you and your kids.
and being able to dump the kids off at your in-laws so you can go out of town for the weekend is the tits. Beats the shite out of paying for a sitter.
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