To my great sorrow (because I will be leaving a job I like and friends whom I will deeply miss but not because of the location because let’s face it, this place could be a lot better), as of July we will be living elsewhere. We sincerely hope that we will NOT be living in mr webbis’ current location, but I have been forced to accept that there IS a possibility that come August, I will be suffering the heat in a state that begins with L and ends in A and is filled with sadness and lethargy and Swamp People.
If that is indeed so, then this will become “A Bad, Bad Webbis: Life in Hell’s Waiting Room.” And no, I do not exaggerate. I do realize that New Orleans, for example, is a lovely, lively, and culturally rich environment.
That is NOT where we will be living. Not even close in any way.
Much of the state (that has been seen by my very own eyes) is a scary morass of yard trash and dilapidated roadways, crumbling curbs and rapidly-multiplying Wal-Marts (and their accompanying People). It is so culturally confusing to me, and I’m afraid that you have to be born into this mentality in order to flourish here. And by ‘here’ I specifically refer to the unnamed location to which we might be moving.
Please direct all thoughts, spiritual or otherwise, towards a brighter immediate future for us that does not include living in the Deep South.
I live in Louisiana and I live southwest of New Orleans. I couldn’t imagine leaving here for long. I am not sure which parts of the state that you have seen with your own eyes, but obviously the state is much bigger than that and is being poorly judged. BTW the Swamp People act the way they do only while being filmed. Those guys make tons of money acting the way the producers ask them to. I mean come on, who really believes reality tv is reality?
“Southwest of New Orleans” is the key phrase in your objection. You may rest assured that the areas that I have seen with my own eyes and that I might be living in include places and people that are not similar to that area.
I have been to New Orleans several times, and it is rich in culture and general awesomeness. The section that I am talking about is in fact peopled with individuals whose approach to education seems to be ‘why bother?’ and whose political opinions trot happily along with Rick Santorum’s.
I can’t say I’ll be sorry to leave a state that has Rick Perry at the helm, but the Deep South is just not really my comfort zone. I was born a Yankee and I’ll die that way, I suppose.