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re: What brought you back to Louisiana ?

Posted on 9/25/26 at 1:17 pm to
Posted by sjmabry
Texas
Member since Aug 2013
19147 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 1:17 pm to
quote:

almost moved back years ago for a comparable job, but the pay was so low we couldn't pull the trigger.
Posted by Sampson
Thailand
Member since Mar 2012
25214 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 1:19 pm to
It wasn’t defense it was facts. Sorry you took it to heart but that’s your problem. Also confirmed BJ coming but I’m paying for it via some dinner outing.
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
180656 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 1:22 pm to
You try too hard bro.
Posted by Sampson
Thailand
Member since Mar 2012
25214 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 1:26 pm to
At what?
Posted by Mariner
Mandeville, LA
Member since Jul 2009
2725 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 1:29 pm to
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It's really just an opportunity thing, if you can find good employment, you can make a good life in NO, BR, of Laffy.


If you have a decent education, good work ethic, refined personality, and a good network, you can go places here. If you have education, skills, and work ethic, and go to major markets, you are competing with a ton of like-minded people. In many cases there is so much opportunity in those markets that you should be fine, but if you can make it here, you stand out like a sore thumb in a great way.

The special thing about here that many don't realize is the amount of people who work for themselves or work in a small firm/business that is part of a network. To me, working at a big corporate headquarters is brutal.
This post was edited on 9/25/26 at 1:30 pm
Posted by Sampson
Thailand
Member since Mar 2012
25214 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 1:31 pm to
And that’s when the chads know when to exit
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
78973 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 1:35 pm to
quote:

Current selection is Super 1 and Walmart..


Sounds miserable.

Give me Randall’s, Tom Thumb, H-E-B all day long.
Posted by LootieandtheBlowfish
Member since Aug 2021
887 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 3:31 pm to
After two unsuccessful attempts at getting a BR girl out I gave in.

Now I’m never leaving.
Posted by TheOcean
#honeyfriedchicken
Member since Aug 2004
46911 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 3:36 pm to
Tailgates, fried food, culture, high crime, high taxes, and fat people
Posted by touchdownjeebus
Member since Sep 2010
27057 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 3:43 pm to
My daughter. She’s about to leave for college, and I’m out dis bitch.

I’ll visit during crawfish season.
Posted by tigerbaiter
Member since Dec 2006
755 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 4:21 pm to
You sound fu
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
17895 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 4:39 pm to
quote:

Got tired of the DFW traffic and wall to wall people. Back close to family and live on open land in rural part of North Louisiana. Absolutely love being back. Will admit to two things I do miss: 1. Huge number and variety of restaurants to eat at. 2. Amazing grocery stores to buy from. Current selection is Super 1 and Walmart.

Yeah, you can't have any open land in a rural part of North Texas, East Texas, etc. Totally a Louisiana thing.

Super 1 and Walmart in Ruston, just like it was in 1995. Progress!
Posted by LSUEnvy
Hou via Lake Chas
Member since May 2011
12774 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 4:42 pm to
Moved to Hou about 15 yrs ago for work. Honestly want to move back, just seems so impersonal here. Every time we go back I’m reminded just how friendly people are. Really never felt like home here and my kids say the same thing
Posted by kayjay
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
887 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 5:43 pm to
Never left, but I will most likely change my state of residency to Florida because I own a condo there. I will no longer have to pay property taxes on my condo, no longer have to pay state income taxes and my car insurance rate will be lower. The state of Florida has no requirement on how many days you have to reside in the state.
Posted by PastorJ
Member since Sep 2024
1284 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 5:54 pm to
I-20...it also took me right out too! Just kidding. I do like visiting your state, especially New Orleans. Not a drinker, but there is good food and beautiful architecture and history in Nawlins.
Posted by jake wade
North LA
Member since Oct 2007
2494 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 6:01 pm to
It dang sure wasn’t the love bugs, moles, fire ants, feral hogs, gophers, hurricanes, crap roads, litter, lack of fall or spring, high insurance, or humidity to name a few.
Posted by geauxpurple
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2014
18048 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 7:01 pm to
I never left.
Posted by Ben Rumson
Anywhere but a town
Member since Sep 2026
152 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 7:10 pm to
quote:

8 months of winter here is brutal


quote:

Are you a reptile? Do you live at 12,000 ft? Highs in the 50s and 60s is not "winter", it's pretty perfect if you ask me.


Yeah, that was my experience when I got transferred out to Denver for 3 years.

It might be 50 degrees but it didn't feel that cold. The humidity really does make a big difference.

I hiked up a mountain in the front range in August. Probably 80 degrees at the trail head. It started snowing on me up there towards the top and I had on shorts and wasn't cold at all.

Experienced a hail storm in August. That was weird, and I wasn't even at elevation.
Posted by AcadieAnne
Space Force Cadet 1st Class
Member since May 2019
1884 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 9:42 pm to
My husband, from WI, is tired of northern winters, and I don't care much for his family (his parents are both passed, his sister is cool, but his brothers (they're all the same kind of engineers) started 2 companies they sold for millions and excluded him both times, so frick everything about them). My family is all from here, so it was easy to use my feminine wiles (and the promise of my mother's cooking) to get him to move with me back to God's country.
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
85872 posts
Posted on 9/25/26 at 9:52 pm to
Imagine moving your family back to a third world shithole bc of red beans and glumbo
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