re: Lack of white collar jobs in Gulf South

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If there is no way to earn good money in Mississippi…. Why are people making good money here?

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Its the poorest state in the union. Even people making good money are making noticeably less than their out of state counterparts.

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the cost of living is far less than all of those other awesome places like Baltimore,

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You realize the US is a pretty big place right? There are a lot more options than just MS or Baltimore.

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but who the hell is buying all the new construction around Baton Rouge and where do they work?

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I do not freaking know!!! I think they’re just relocating from areas that aren’t “new” anymore and buying more house than they can afford.

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These are families that are relocating to areas that are safer, with better public schools, and a lower cost of living.

A tale as old as time.

It if also why Nola, BR, and Shreveport have turned into massive shitholes in the last 4 decades.

It’s actually quite sad for those of us that are getting up in age.

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Just read that there once you said. Another Louisiana based firm acquired out of state.

We can't keep anything!

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We've had a lot of big businesses get bought out, leave the state or shift a lot of their jobs to other states in the past 10-15 years - LHC, Iberia, Smoothie King, Raising Canes, Century Link, Shaw, Amedisys

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but who the hell is buying all the new construction around Baton Rouge and where do they work?

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I do not freaking know!!! I think they’re just relocating from areas that aren’t “new” anymore and buying more house than they can afford.

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Maybe government workers. They don't ever seem to miss paychecks or inflationary pay raises.

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Maybe government workers. They don't ever seem to miss paychecks or inflationary pay raises.

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This. Capital cities accumulate wealth from all over their territory.

the only neighbors I have who won't mow their yard are California trust fund brats who moved here, and "remodeled" a great old house in town into a Soviet style block of dried shite

corporate types with money, ruined the house, ugly yard, Democrat signs in their yard every election

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Its the poorest state in the union. Even people making good money are making noticeably less than their out of state counterparts.

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“Ohhh.. you so poooor!”

Here is the advantage of that chief. As I’ve said multiple times… the same people laughing at me living here are paying as much or more rent for a small apartment that I am for a house and land. They gain nothing… I gain equity.

There is a large portion of that much more shiny salary they are shitting away on taxes (including local income taxes we don’t pay), inflated prices, paying to park, and other bs. What can I spend that on? Assets. Investments. My stuff.

So again.. when someone comes through my state, in their car (which is their largest value asset) and laughs at me… when we compare assets on a balance sheet, who will leave laughing then?

But again… they have more coffee shops, some art museums, a shitload of people to fight in traffic, and a much larger chance to get robbed and shot.

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No, The Boeing Company is HQ'd in Chicago. Boeing's biggest place of employment is in the state of Washington with manufacturing facilities for Airliners (Everett, Renton, Auburn, Kent and Seattle), but Boeing is 100% HQ'd in Chicago

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You're right.

Must be the commercial aircraft division website I saw.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes, PO Box 3707 MC 1F-41, Seattle, WA

Also read that the 200 million, 40 story tower in Chicago they are in is "a ghost town" and has been for the 20+ years they've been there.

My company does a ton of business with them (I'm not in that division) but knew they have a ton of plants in Missouri. Headscratcher why their HQ is in Illinois.

Unfortunately white collar finance jobs in Louisiana are in poor supply. I work in AML/Fraud commuting back and forth from Jackson area but home work has helped. Don't want to live in Jackson, just because family and I'm closer to personal interests down here. In an ideal world I'd be based on Poydras or even Metairie, BR or the Northshore.

Going to get even worse in years to come I fear as what's left of the LA banking industry will continue to get picked off by more out of state names. Only hope is the likes of B1, Origin and Red River are making these acquisitions and not banks from elsewhere. From what I hear banks in MS, AR and TX are all looking at LA, really hoovering up whats left!

Theres a reason BoA, US Bank, Wells Fargo, PNC etc ain't down here. LA must be one of the most under-represented states when it comes to the big banking players. Its just a stagnant state economically.

For all that the nearest major city to NOLA is about 350 miles away, we aren't the regional business center we should be and thats down to decades of poor leadership which theres no signs of a shift from.

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I live here, and it will never change, and it never has!

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It's only going to get worse. I haven't seen the numbers, but it seems fairly obvious that the % of population that is dependent on your tax dollars grows year over year. Louisiana is probably over 50% now, if not, it will be soon.