re: Wife said last night she is ready to leave south La.

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Mine too. He tells me weekly how much he regrets staying here and raising me in this state.

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My parents are divorced but my dad says if my family leaves he'll probably move somewhere in the same general vicinity. My mom will never leave but I also have little sister in BR that's not going anywhere. My other sibling lives in Texas.

Parents and grandparents get over it.

Allowing that kind of guilt to ruin a life isn't healthy.

We moved out of BR just over a year ago and rented out the house. The last two hurricane seasons and recent heavy rain storms/floods have made me question even owning a rental property down there. I think we’ll end up selling the house soon just to avoid the stress of hurricanes and flooding.

Made a move later in life and we are glad we did. Wife had lived in Lake Chas her entire life so when a job opened up in Hou we went for it. Still not too far away to go back and visit.

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It's not the hurricanes with Florida. They now how to handle hurricanes. They know how to rebuild their grid. They know how to prevent infrastructure damage and get everything back up quicker.

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Florida is a well run state but the climate isn't appealing to me at all.

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It really is silly waking up every day and just hoping you have electricity. It would be one thing if it didn't cost first-world prices to live here, but it does.

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Yep.


To me Louisiana has all or most of the negatives of a deep red and deep blue state at the same time with virtually none of the positives you can get from either.

Shitty economy
High taxes
Insane corruption
Terrible education system
Ridiculous and engrained social conservatism (this is changing, but at a MUCH slower rate than surrounding states)

It’s like you get the worst of both worlds here. Tired of it.

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We're considering N Carolina, Savannah, Houston, Fort Worth, Charleston, maybe Tennessee, maybe Colorado.

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From the list above TN is the best combo of normal people in a pretty place (except for Nashville). CO is stunning but expensive and liberal. Fort Worth is ok. Hou is a s-hole and the other two are small tourist traps.

She’ll leave when I say she leaves.


-Jody

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that in your eyes crossing an imaginary line makes it better.

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This is sad.

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But where do you go? To the West with wildfires? To the East with hurricanes and flooding?
To the mid country where there are tornadoes?
Or to the north where you will fight winter snow every year guaranteed?

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I moved to TN, and while there has been flooding and tornadoes, I have not been directly affected by them in the almost decade I’ve been here. That’s the thing about tornadoes and floods, they are hit and miss, unlike hurricanes that affect everyone for hundreds of miles. Buy high ground and you won’t flood. Tornadoes are like lightening, it’s a roll of the dice, but they don’t affect the vast majority.

Besides hurricanes, I also left behind all the murder and other crime, local government incompetence and corruption, and state income tax. Oh, and car insurance is less than 1/2 price. Oh and it’s not “devil’s arse crack hot” 8 months out of the year.

TLDR: Don’t compare hurricanes to tornadoes and floods. LA has been devastated several times in the last 10 years since I left while I haven’t had $1 of damage to my home or property in TN during the same time frame.