re: It must suck to live in Alabama

It's not. Truth is almost every southern state is better living in than Louisiana just simply due to the tax situation here. We pay state income, property tax and any other tax they can find. Then they stop the one thing that actually helps families like me with four children TOPS. I have a daughter who just started HS this year in the early college option which is cool. She'll graduate HS with a n associated degree in humanities. She takes all honors courses and is doing very well. She would have easily qualified for TOPS but it is not going to be an option any more. Our great governor decided to cut the budget by eliminating that program and releasing 1900 "nonviolent " prisoners back into society.