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Why is Southeast Texas such a dump?
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:19 pm
The golden triangle area is home to some of the biggest chemical plants and refineries in the country. Motiva, BASF, Total, Valero, Cheniere LNG, Dow Chemical etc provide 10s of thousands of high paying jobs to the area. I have yet to run into a nice area.
There is also 0 culture to the area. Where do all the plant baws making 125k per year live?
There is also 0 culture to the area. Where do all the plant baws making 125k per year live?
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Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:20 pm to nugget
Proximity to Louisiana?
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:20 pm to nugget
At BASF, we don't make a lot of the products you buy, we make a lot of the products you buy better.
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:21 pm to nugget
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The golden triangle area is home to some of the biggest chemical plants and refineries in the country. Motiva, BASF, Total, Valero, Cheniere LNG, Dow Chemical etc provide 10s of thousands of high paying jobs to the area. I have yet to run into a nice area.
There is also 0 culture to the area. Where do all the plant baws making 125k per year live?
Most of those cities in the area didn't exist until oil was discovered. They are entirely blue collar. There's not much higher ed, and Houston attracts the white collar businesses, creating somewhat of a brain drain.
Lake Charles is better than Beaumont because it's a little farther from Houston, and has a slightly more diverse business climate. They also seem to have invested a little more into the city center than Beaumont or Port Arthur although the Beaumont metro area is a bit larger.
I was on a project in the Port Arthur area for a while. I absolutely hated the area.
This post was edited on 12/19/20 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:21 pm to nugget
quote:clear lake
Where do all the plant baws making 125k per year live?
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:21 pm to nugget
The landscape isn’t helping. Flat and boring.
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:23 pm to OWLFAN86
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clear lake
Clear lake shores for the boat baws
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:23 pm to nugget
What are the racial demographics??
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:23 pm to nugget
Southwest Texas ain't much better
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:23 pm to nugget
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Why is Southeast Texas such a dump?
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The golden triangle area is home to some of the biggest chemical plants and refineries in the country.
Who wants to live next to a chemical plant?
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:24 pm to dewster
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Houston attracts the white collar businesses, creating somewhat of a brain drain.
I would assume there’s a shitload of reliability engineers there making good money. It’s similar to LC in the education department and jobs, but LC is much nicer, IMO.
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:24 pm to gthog61
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Who wants to live next to a chemical plant?
People that work at a chemical plant. I’d assume there’s a lot of good fishing and hunting in the area as well.
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:25 pm to nugget
Didn't we just do this thread with the body worded almost the exact same way?
December 4th: Why is the Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange, TX area so depressing?
December 4th: Why is the Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange, TX area so depressing?
This post was edited on 12/19/20 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:25 pm to nugget
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Why is Southeast Texas such a dump?
I take it you’ve never lived in Baton Rouge
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:25 pm to nugget
Too many environmental issues around the plants for everyone wanting to live there.
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:26 pm to nugget
It's an industrial area... What would you expect?
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:26 pm to nugget
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I would assume there’s a shitload of reliability engineers there making good money. It’s similar to LC in the education department and jobs, but LC is much nicer, IMO.
Lake Charles and Beaumont (and the area around them) are probably going to grow with more industrial jobs over the next 20 years - especially if they can avoid any more direct hurricane impacts. They are blue collar towns, but the jobs are pretty lucrative and stable.
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:27 pm to nugget
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People that work at a chemical plant. I’d assume there’s a lot of good fishing and hunting in the area as well.
Do they smell better than they used to?
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:27 pm to GreenRockTiger
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I take it you’ve never lived in Baton Rouge
I'd take Baton Rouge over Beaumont, Port Arthur, or Orange in a heartbeat. Beaumont may have a bright future with industrial expansion, but right now it's the undisputed armpit of the gulf coast.
Posted on 12/19/20 at 2:29 pm to dewster
quote:Janis Joplin, Coach Jimmy Johnson, and G.W. Bailey (Rizzo on MASH, Police Academy) all went to high school together in P.A.
Port Arthur
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