I've lived in Louisiana for 27 years, I'll never leave :),(reply>), +poopisnotpoop Baton Rouge doesn't say anything. they watch helpless and speechless as 4 out of 5 people who actually get an education there, just leave, because there is no opportunity, one of the lowest paying job markets in the nation, a real estate bubble, the #1 highest car insurance rates in the US, ageing and poorly maintained infrastructure with, little to no development in most areas, and a corruption rate higher then the prescription drug addiction rate in most rural areas arround the city of BR and arround the state. and did I mention corruption. It's at every level. try to get any job anywhere. if you don't know someone who already works there, look else where. the "Brother in law" mentality is the only law in BR. Read Socrates' alagory of the cave and then take a trip to... anywhere else in the nation.,(reply>), Well Shreveport is just a shitty offshoot of Texas, so it doesn't count.<br><br>But Baton Rouge says good riddance to the ungrateful.,(reply>), lived in BR for 30. ill never go back.,(reply>), @Joshua Martin<br>it's just too swampy with nothing to do,(reply>), Nope. I'm from Texas. Louisiana always seemed backwards and 200 years behind the times. It is just odd to me. Odd and humid! Ugh!