What do you LOVE about Louisiana??? (New Orleans, Farmerville: drivers license, island, place)

[laorbust61]

Originally Posted by Sam I Am

PASS on a crawfish boil? Heresy! Traitor! It's the BEST thing about Louisiana! We only lived in NOLA for about 18 months many years ago but even being raised in Mississippi, I gotta say - that is some of the best eating there is. Used to be cheap, too, although not so much now. I have no doubt we would have starved to death had it not been for the mudbugs...

MMMMMM......CRAWFISH..........with corn and potatoes...I love them so much! Pinch me, crawdaddy! I must be dreaming.

[holloway1010]

Originally Posted by darylwi

Actually we could do without either. Problem is, a lot of old style people in this state don't realize (or care) that we can remain different while we clean up the negative parts of this state. The politicians and citizens who love this system the most are usually the ones getting handouts or deals under the table while another aspect of this state goes underfunded or loses out altogether.
Everytime someone wants to change something, for better or worse, people start screaming about tradition or "that's how it's always been". It's time for that thinking to die off. We can clean up schools, roads, politics, health care, etc and still have great sports traditions, crawfish boils, festivals & parades, great music, New Orleans history & style, old column antebellum homes, drive-thru daiquiris, etc.

Seems like sombody might as well just move to Vermont. Also, my first post was meant to be taken in a humorous way. Chillax.

[SBCmetroguy]

Originally Posted by laorbust61

That is great to hear, because sooner or later, my dear homestate HAS to make its arrival into the 21st century....and sooner would certainly be better than later. I don't think I'd willingly give my heart to any other place in the world. I'm must be hard-core country, because "the West Coast" did not change me. I'm a very down to earth person.

You sound like an awesome person. And I meant what I said... welcome back. Welcome home not only to Louisiana, but to north Louisiana! Since Shreveport is just an hour north of Natchitoches, try to make it up this way sometime too. It's changed a lot in the last 10-15 years.

[laorbust61]

Originally Posted by SBCmetroguy

You sound like an awesome person. And I meant what I said... welcome back. Welcome home not only to Louisiana, but to north Louisiana! Since Shreveport is just an hour north of Natchitoches, try to make it up this way sometime too. It's changed a lot in the last 10-15 years.

Yes, absolutely I will! I have relatives there, too.

[Bayoukid]

The Food
The Women
The Culture
The LSU Tigers
The Bayou's
The Cypress Trees w/moss
The Old Plantation Homes
The Southern Hospitality
The Hunting
The Fishing

[Chinadoll]

There's no place on Earth like New Orleans!

[Innotech]

1 Cajun Food
2 a real sense of culture, music, people, places
3 swamps are beautiful (Im not even kidding) and there are many other beautiful parks and places to visit in the state
4 friendly people
5 the history (Vermillionville, Acadian village, plantations and avery island among others)
6 New Orleans in general
7 a relaxed attitude/ laissez faire
8 a really damn fast internet connection in some areas
9 the location relative to other areas of interest- not far from the beautiful Gulf coast, big cities in Texas, and the Florida panhandle.
10 the football teams. geaux LSU/Saints!


Louisiana is a very unique state and one of the few in the nation that hasnt completely lost its identitiy. We may rank dead last in many things, but this place has a soul. It has a real vitality to it that the downsides just cannot affect.
they cant ruin my love for this state.

[NSSTOUT]

What do I LOVE about La.??? Dugas Landing, at Hackberry, Friday's at the Pitt Grill in Sulphur the food , none better, Mardi Gras in Mamou, just got back, had a GREAT time, Moss on the trees, all the beauty that other folks just don't know about.

[ALJohnson]

As someone getting ready to move to LA, it makes me sad to see that everyone's favorite thing seems to be the food because (tragically) I am allergic to most of it. I can't eat ANY fish/seafood/etc and almost no "spicy" (by total ***** standards) foods. <sadness>

Although, honestly, I don't think I could do the crayfish thing anyway.

[EtherBunster]

I love that we have a yard instead of a 4 foot by 4 foot swatch of grass that was called a yard in my last home.

I love that the stores are clean and modern. Bleh... Shopping in old groceries stores was a drag.

I love not having to sit in 2 hours worth of traffic to drive what should be 20 minutes.

I love not having to deal with extremely aggressive homeless people constantly.

I love how friendly people are here.

I love the change of season.


I'm comparing Shreveport to a bad area of Tampa, Florida where I used to live.