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re: Transplants, tell your culture shock stories when you first came to South LA
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:38 am to HoustonChick86
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:38 am to HoustonChick86
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My first year at LSU was the fall after the 2003 national championship
Was this the game against Oregon St we won in OT when it was raining a lot? I was at that one as well.
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Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:39 am to OKTGR580
When the Catholics got up after a hard night of drinking and went to church. Wearing jeans.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:39 am to OKTGR580
I moved to Belle Chasse in '99. Had traveled all over the world before then.
The NOLA folks are oblivious to the whole world, and seem to think only NOLA is the place to be.
The NOLA folks are oblivious to the whole world, and seem to think only NOLA is the place to be.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:42 am to MrSmith65
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The NOLA folks are oblivious to the whole world, and seem to think only NOLA is the place to be.
You see it in the Saints threads when they can't comprehend that a lot of us dont care that much.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:44 am to OKTGR580
Not cultural, but I was shocked by the amount and ferocity of rain. I toured LSU and one of the afternoon monsoons hit. The girl giving the tour said, "this never happens." Dumb me believed her. I mean, how could it rain that hard every day? Little did I know...
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:45 am to hob
Had a coworker move down here from Idaho. He confided in me while driving down highway 44 one day that he voted for Obama twice and thought all southerners were just racist and stupid and that we hated every person of color. After living here for a few months he said “I get it and I don’t think y’all are racists anymore”
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:46 am to OKTGR580
Just how much people cared about where you went to high school, especially people from New Orleans.
I mean I'm from Houston, so what high school you went to here tells me about your station in life (Episcopal-rich druggy, St John's-rich nerd, St Thomas-your parents didn't have enough clout to get you into Kinkaid or Strake...Lamar-you got kicked out of one of the above for drugs/drinking/behavior, St. Agnes-closet hoes, Duchesne-buncha weirdos), but after about sophomore year in college no one gives a shite back home, you have made different circles of friends.
I mean I'm from Houston, so what high school you went to here tells me about your station in life (Episcopal-rich druggy, St John's-rich nerd, St Thomas-your parents didn't have enough clout to get you into Kinkaid or Strake...Lamar-you got kicked out of one of the above for drugs/drinking/behavior, St. Agnes-closet hoes, Duchesne-buncha weirdos), but after about sophomore year in college no one gives a shite back home, you have made different circles of friends.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:48 am to offshoreangler
quote:my nephew is trying to go to Carnegie. What does that mean??
offshoreangler
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:49 am to jdd48
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We had some friends from California come down for a visit one time. They were completely blown away by the fact that alcohol can be purchased at Walmarts down here.
That's not a Southern thing at all. I can buy alcohol at Walmart and Target here in AZ. Only ones you can't buy alcohol at are the ones that are on Native reservation land(and that is a tribe law not a state one).
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:50 am to BottomlandBrew
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was shocked by the amount and ferocity of rain.
This!
When I first came I didn’t have a good rain jacket and didn’t realize how crucial that owning one is. Also, the humidity was something that threw me off. I’d walk to class in August and september by the time I got there I was sweating my arse off.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:52 am to lsunurse
We aren’t talking about “southern things”
We’re talking about SOUTH LOUISIANA things that surprised people when they first came here.
We’re talking about SOUTH LOUISIANA things that surprised people when they first came here.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:52 am to OKTGR580
I was young, maybe 10. I'd never seen a black person before.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:53 am to OKTGR580
Not really a culture shock, but the first week I was down here I encountered my first giant flying roach 
Those don’t exist back home. I’m still terrified.
Those don’t exist back home. I’m still terrified.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:53 am to Rouge
His lineage is from the Asian continent?
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:54 am to offshoreangler
This was years ago.. When I was younger and a co-worker at the time was from Texas. Her dad's company was bought out by a competitor of the company we both worked for. Her dad was well off so I just assumed she went to a private school.
One day she mentioned something about high school and how she went to public school. We were at lunch and someone asked her "you went to public school? Why?" and she was like "why not? The private schools where we lived wasn't as good as the public schools why would I go to a private school?".
Here, unless someone is poor, for the most part, you just assume they send their kids to private school (it depends on the parish of course).
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:56 am to Aspercel
quote:Palmetto bugs!
giant flying roach
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:57 am to OKTGR580
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We’re talking about SOUTH LOUISIANA things that surprised people when they first came here.
Ok...buying alcohol at Walmart is not exclusive to South Louisiana.
Better?
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:58 am to OweO
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Here, unless someone is poor, for the most part, you just assume they send their kids to private school (it depends on the parish of course).
This is a big one for me too. Private schools are basically non existent where I come from.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:58 am to OKTGR580
I've had several friends from AZ visit New Orleans and while they all said they had fun they all commented how they were surprised at just how dirty the city is.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 9:58 am to lsunurse
Ok. Now leave the thread and everyone will go back to having normal conversations.
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