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re: Louisiana has lost people at a higher rate than California
Posted on 2/21/23 at 8:43 am to armtackledawg
Posted on 2/21/23 at 8:43 am to armtackledawg
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Attracting retirees to the coast and industry/jobs to the Upstate/Charleston. Make it stop.
So true. The influx of people to the Charleston and Greenville areas is absolutely ridiculous.
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Posted on 2/21/23 at 8:44 am to AUTiger789
People need to stop moving to Florida
Posted on 2/21/23 at 8:59 am to AUTiger789
Doesn’t surprise me! I left years ago
Posted on 2/21/23 at 9:21 am to AUTiger789
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This will be a crisis for all universities in 15-16 years due to the collapse of birthrates since the pandemic.
The universities have fricked themselves. People are starting to figure out how to bring accreditation to the Internet and distribute educational programs without the ideological indoctrination you get with universities. Check out www.Alison.com as an example
Posted on 2/21/23 at 9:25 am to AUTiger789
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Basically the entire South is booming except for LA.
Airboats are getting expensive.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 9:32 am to Milf n Cookies
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You make it sound like Louisiana is the only place in America that gets hurricanes. Louisiana gets fewer than some other states. The difference is Louisiana is a lower class of people that can not, or will not rebuild afterward. They just move to greener pastures like any other 3rd world caliber people.
*You* are a lower class of person. Specifically, you.
People in Louisiana aren't any different. We get hit with consecutive storms that destroy our community and finances and we question the wisdom of staying put. Home insurance is becoming unaffordable.
You're just a worthless human being.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 9:34 am to BLG
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if that were the case people would be moving from Florida in droves rather than moving to there
Cat 4 hurricane hits any part of Louisiana and it has the potential to displace half the people in the state. That same hurricane would have to drag north over Florida's coast to have the same effect.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 10:06 am to HarryBalzack
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Drive about three miles on a LA highway and you'll turn around too.
So fricking true. We returned home for Christmas and the second you hit Louisiana everything becomes worse. The roads, the scenery, the drivers. Trash everywhere on the side of the road.
I don’t think I’ve run into a single pothole in Alabama. Public spaces are infinitely cleaner. The roads are well maintained. Schools have standards and aren’t used as babysitters. You can see your tax dollars at work.
When I lived in Louisiana I wondered what exactly I was paying for. And I was paying $200+ more in car insurance every month for a 2006 and a 2017 vehicle.
I’ll never go back. I don’t miss it at all.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 11:12 am to Solo Cam
quote:It's a damn shame that she was twice elected. I saw the pic of her publicly flipping off one of the krewes floats in a weekend parade, what a nasty & trashy woman.
Latoya Cantrell has led Nola to the murder capital of the country
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:18 pm to AUTiger789
Who in their right mind moves to South Carolina LOL? There ain't a single redeeming corner of the state except for the small corridor of the Chattooga River....the rest of the state is a cess pool of UGLY towns and uglier people. The coast is the worse area with Columbia coming in a close second. Most of the area south and east of I-10 is the anuz of the south while the area north of 1-20 is the armpit.........Aiken and North Augusta are tolerable but the rest of the state is horrible...it's particularly noticeable given that North Carolina and Georgia has so many nice areas that the badness that is SC is particularly noticeable....if it was wedged between Louisiana and Texas it would be a beaming beacon of decency and what not but being so close to NC and GA it is like a turd in an otherwise lovely punch bowl....
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:24 pm to paperwasp
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I'm assuming that Florida is probably retirees — just out of curiosity, why is South Carolina so high?
Retirees along the coast and displaced folks from the NE and Mid West in the Greenville/Spartanburg/Charlotte corridor. The retirees on the coast have taken what was an area which was, once upon a time, tolerable if you couldn't get to FLorida and turned it into Manhatton without any of the Charm. The displaced folks from the NE and the Mid West fouled their nests there, their jobs relocated to SC and they followed and are in the process of fouling their second nest there. Other states in the south have had this issue also but not to the extent it exists in SC. Combine the crappy people who have moved to SC with the already worse than crappy native population and you have New Jersey with a 1st grade reading level and a Texas sense of insecurity and inferfiority...it is really a nasty place that makes Mississippi look like a genteel, lovely neighborhood...
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:29 pm to AUTiger789
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South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, N Carolina is also partly retirees (not near the level of FL) but again, mostly folks from up north fleeing taxes and cold weather
Can't speak for Tennessee but Georgia and North Carolina's population influx is due more to highly educated and high earning professionals moving to Atlanta and the Raliegh Durham / Charlotte area. Both do owe some population growth to retirees but both are more akin to the NE in regards to commerce than they are the rest of the south. Georgia has been called the empire state of the south since before the Civil War and it wasn't long after the war that Atlanta became the commercial capital of the south and has never not been....
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:33 pm to AUTiger789
Louisiana is a fantastic place to visit but living there would be infinitely worse than living in New Mexico....the two states are eerily similar given that demographically and geographically they couldn't be further apart. There is the entire oil thing and proximity to the suck that is the entirety of Texas that both share and Mississippi and Arizona should pay some tribute to Louisiana and New Mexico for keeping Texas away from their borders....
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:37 pm to AUTiger789
Of all of those states not named Georgia Alabama is a mystery into why it is not more favored by folks seeking a better way of life. North Alabama is about as nice an area as there is in the nation, has a good economy and folks earn a decent wage in Huntsville but also in the entirety of the Tennessee Valley in Alabama. The people in the Valley are also among the nicest folks you ever meet and there isn't the same level of tension in North Alabama that you see on other areas of the south. Huntsville ain't my cup of tea but it'd be a great place to raise a young family and the rest of the Valley is right up there in my opinion with one of the nicest areas of the nation....
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:41 pm to AwgustaDawg
Huntsville is nice but it's not like Birmingham and Montgomery are desirable places.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:42 pm to Old Money
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People need to stop moving to Florida
A little research into real estate prices and it won't be long before folks do indeed quit moving to Florida. Coupled with the number of Boomers reaching an age where they can't live alone and can't afford assisted living and I would bet that Florida starts losing population or at least sees a drastic decline in increasing population in 20 years. There is NO industry in Florida, wages are crap and the cost of living is going up exponentially. I know loads of folks in the Panhandle, in south florida and in the first coast region who are either actively planning their escape or talking more and more about it.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:45 pm to Fishhead
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Much stricter building codes in Florida too.
That's because they have leadership Louisiana lacks
The people I have known who lived in Louisiana would squall like a mashed kitty of they had to contend with the building codes that people in Florida willingly accept. Building codes and zoning are the chief method available to legally control the people in an area and Florida communities are among the most adapt in the nation at ensuring that gentrification occurs any chance they get.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:51 pm to oldskule
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That is a fact.....we have no infrastructure or workforce to attract new business here, and it will not change.
The fact that Louisiana has a sizeable % of people who manage to make their nut every month with no discernible source of income, who are largely unencumbered by building codes and zoning regulations and whose only concern is where the game warden is at any given moment is one of the most attractive features of any state in the nation. It would be all to east to turn Louisiana into Georgia or Tennessee but y'all best be careful what you wish for...decent schools, roads that do not destroy your car and a functional state government are nice but they also require you to bend the knee to such things....drive through daiquirri bars and open containers are, for the most part, forbidden in most of the nation....I ain't sure most folks in Louisiana would be happy without the freedom that living in a dysfunctional state affords those willing to take advantage.
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:53 pm to mrbroker
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a lot of the growth in Al is happening in the N area. Huntsville and Madison co is growing.
Be hard pressed to find a nicer area of the country to live, nicer people to live around and more opportunity to earn a decent wage and enjoy a great lifestyle IF the things most of us enjoy in the south are at the top of your list. North Alabama is fantastic....
Posted on 2/21/23 at 12:56 pm to Humpy go Lucky
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A lot of that growth is in the SC part of the Charlotte metro area. Charlotte is booming and a lot of people that work in Charlotte live in SC.
The entire I-85 corridor is booming, has been for some time and is going to continue to do so for the foreseeable future. From nearly Montgomery but certainly Valley, Alabama to the Triangle the i=85 corridor is going to be the epicenter of growth in the eastern US for many years to come. The same is true, to a lesser degree, from Macon to Nashville. The heart of the south is going to be a lot like the NE in a hundred years, or what the NE was 100 years ago. Not sure most of us native would be happy with it but it is happening and has been for some time...
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