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re: Top states ranking- Louisiana ranked 50
Posted on 5/10/24 at 8:49 am to dallastiger55
Posted on 5/10/24 at 8:49 am to dallastiger55
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Louisiana will always be the place I was born and raised and have a special place in my heart.
It doesn’t hit you until you move away and come back to visit. Once you cross the border it’s depressing as shite. It’s the little things like litter, quality of blue collar workers at fast food and grocery stores, etc.
This is what my friends/family don't really get. The ones that moved away stayed away. Everyone else never left. We moved back to be closer to aging family and have a nice quiet spot.
When I tell people I don't like getting out here they look at me crazy. You don't understand until you live in a thriving city for a couple years. There is a certain attitude here with everything you do where the person providing the service is acting like they are doing you a favor.
The post office? "Do as I say, I lord over the packages"
Grocery store? "How dare you ask me a question, read the signs"
Contractor/Labor? "If I find one reason to not work, I'm calling the boss, and getting the OK to leave"
I thought it was me before I left. I really felt crazy, because nobody seemed to understand why I didn't like living here, and I thought if this is happening everywhere I go it has to be me. Until we moved away, and I was able to have a conversation with a person where they don't look me up or down or ask me who my family is.
fricking weirdos man.
This post was edited on 5/10/24 at 8:50 am
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Posted on 5/10/24 at 8:57 am to Odysseus32
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There is a certain attitude here with everything you do where the person providing the service is acting like they are doing you a favor.
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This.
Go to MSY and its like every employee there is PISSED you showed up.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 9:52 am to Odysseus32
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There is a certain attitude here with everything you do where the person providing the service is acting like they are doing you a favor.
This is a big reason I left after school - the day to day mundane parts of life in Louisiana are a miserable slog to get through:
- DMV fricked up my car title, gotta go fight with Shaniqua who tells me to go the Express DMV but they’re closed randomly on a Tuesday
- get the car serviced, but Mike Boudreaux the retard mechanic inexplicably forgot to tell me it was done and had been parked offsite, so I sat at the dealership for 3 unnecessary hours
- go grocery shopping, the self checkouts don’t work, so now I get the pleasure of dealing with Astrid the gender fluid cashier who acts like I have inconvenienced his/her entire existence by purchasing bread and bologna. Passive aggressive exchange of money for goods and services takes 15 minutes longer than needed
- sit in Baton Rouge traffic, rattle my way home over 17 potholes
- finally 5 PM and lo and behold, Entergy had another power outage and can’t reliably tell us when it will be restored
Maybe some people are more resilient or DGAF, but once you live that day on repeat for 5,10,15 years, it eventually wears you down. Once you move to a place where the simple things just FUNCTION, you realize how fricked up Louisiana is - no amount of crawfish or LSU championships or Mardi Gras parades offsets this for me.
Great place to visit, terrible place to actually live.
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