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I've heard that Muslim countries won't take them as refugees because of their high inbred rates. They basically overload the social safety nets because there's such a large population of special needs people caused by inbreeding.
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Really? In Plano. His house in BR is on Harvard. I thought he lived there full-time.


Yep, he's here a lot, its pretty well known. Cane's operational headquarters is in Plano, the Baton Rouge office is basically a ceremonial one. That office has basically been the operational headquarters since the early 2010's. They moved the entire accounting, marketing, real estate, development team out there around 2012-2015 from BR. They doubled that office about a year ago, Article

When I lived in Plano, I saw him around town several times a year. Had some property off of Preston.

One of my buddies worked in the accounting department at the Plano office (got moved there from BR) and it wasn't uncommon to see Todd there 3 or 4 days out of the week.
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Baton Rouge is pretty nice if you have money and can live in your own bubble


Good luck trying to convince those people. It's one of the reasons I left.

People who inherit their family business and coast by at the plant due to nepotism are usually pretty unaware of things happening in the real world. People who are competent and didn't grow up with any kind of privilege usually have toleave this place behind.
Graves grew up a stones throw away from the LSU campus and grew his company with the LSU/BR community but got his undergrad at UGA and lives in Plano 9 months out of the year.
It was cheaper than Louisiana about a decade ago.
It's really hard to find an American white woman under the age of 40 that cooks. Before I got married, out of the 6 girls I dated, maybe one of them consistently cooked. These weren't exactly career women either. Got tired of takeout and chicken salad.It wasn't a deal breaker because I learned how to cook at 15, dad was an avid outdoorsmen and could cook a mean rice and gravy. Mom was half Eastern European and half Cajun so she could also. It was just refreshing when I found out my wife was willing to cook 3 or 4 times a week and was decent at it.

re: Rumor: META to acquire CLECO

Posted by Defenseiskey on 11/17/25 at 10:51 am to
Should have never the left the COOP model. Selling out to private equity never goes well for consumers.
A lot of you live in a bubble it seems.

Sure, Louisiana/BR is awesome if you inherited a business or your dad hooked you up with 6 figure plant job.

If you're the average guy who has to move up in his career, can't coast by on nepotism, can't afford a gated community or private schools at 29, and doesn't get any outside help, it can be a pretty brutal place.

Would much rather a place where I can move up in my career, not deal with people who steal my property, has decent public schools, and I don't have brown stuff in my water.

Waiting on dudes who live in Gonzalez, Livingston Parish, and Broussard to call Austin and Nashville shitholes.
I haven't been to Gainesville since 2010 bit I remember it being a lot cleaner and safer than BR.
They also sell their stuff at a 30% markup. You can a lot of the same stuff online for way less.
When I lived in Lafayette, I had SLEMCO and LUS. LUS wasn't bad but SLEMCO should be a model for the rest of the country on how to run a utility COOP.

re: Best Baton Rouge Suburb

Posted by Defenseiskey on 11/16/25 at 11:17 am to
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Considering moving back to the state


Don't.

There's really no benefit. You can order Cajun ingredients on the internet and fly in for festivals or LSU games.
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we don’t promote him we will regret it. He wants it, he connects well with kids, would energize the fanbase.


As long as there is no running quarterbacks.

re: Jewish population in BR

Posted by Defenseiskey on 11/16/25 at 5:57 am to
Have you paid any attention the last 80 years? They're always the victim, they're never at fault for anything.
Texas, only because I live in Houston.