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re: Lafayette…Best place to live in Louisiana
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:42 pm to turnpiketiger
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:42 pm to turnpiketiger
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I challenge you to find any place that has a “best place to live” title that doesn’t have traffic.
Agreed I can’t think of one decent size city I’ve lived in that doesn’t have bad traffic. We need more commuter rails in the US
This post was edited on 5/21/24 at 3:43 pm
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Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:42 pm to turnpiketiger
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Must not have been on the south side of town. It’s always been easy to get around town in the central part around downtown and campus. Anything south of the vermilion River gets dicey
I live off of East Bayou and drove to a place off of Bertand.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:44 pm to Epic Cajun
In reality, mandeville alone has closer to 50k people. Look at the population of 70448 & 70471
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:46 pm to purple18
Have to agree here.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:47 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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In reality, mandeville alone has closer to 50k people. Look at the population of 70448 & 70471
for such small towns the traffic sucks in both places but if moving back to La. those would be my top two choices
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:47 pm to Epic Cajun
I think being 30-45 minutes away from the entertainment and restaurants in New Orleans is better than what Lafayette has to offer. However, it’s been a while since I’ve been to Lafayette so I’m not sure. I’ll sit this one out.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:49 pm to Toss_Dive
quote:45 minutes is the best case scenario from mandeville
I think being 30-45 minutes away from the entertainment and restaurants in New Orleans
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:50 pm to ZULU
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If Lafayette is the best in Louisiana We are in trouble.
I'm pretty sure it is
Louisiana is also ranked #50 best state by this same publication so yeah we are in trouble relatively speaking
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:51 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
this is kind of interesting
STP population 273,263 (2022)
Mandeville population 13,343 (2022)
Covington population 11,636 (2022)
Madisonville population 871 (2022)
Slidell population 28,649 (2022)
STP population 273,263 (2022)
Mandeville population 13,343 (2022)
Covington population 11,636 (2022)
Madisonville population 871 (2022)
Slidell population 28,649 (2022)
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:52 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
I'd rather live on the Northshore, but I doubt any individual town has a large enough population to consider for this. One stipulation, I'd rather live on the Northshore if I didn't have to commute to nola every day 
This post was edited on 5/21/24 at 3:53 pm
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:53 pm to Toss_Dive
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I think being 30-45 minutes away from the entertainment and restaurants in New Orleans is better than what Lafayette has to offer. However, it’s been a while since I’ve been to Lafayette so I’m not sure. I’ll sit this one out.
Having the number 1 attribute for your "city" be the 2 hour round trip away from a place that has awesome restaurants and entertainment isn't a great selling point, IMO. What does the actual "city" have to offer?
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:54 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
30 min you’d have to be booking it. It used to take me 35 min to get from mandeville to Lakeview
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:56 pm to Epic Cajun
I live in Lafayette and love it. South Lafayette, Youngsville and Broussard are thriving. Great for families.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:57 pm to Toss_Dive
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I think being 30-45 minutes away from the entertainment and restaurants in New Orleans is better than what Lafayette has to offer.
Entertainment and restaurants is one thing but the main driver here is jobs. Lafayette has more options there than Northshore. Commuting to Nola is not a viable option.
If we’re talking entertainment Lafayette is 3 hours to Houston which would blow out anything Nola has to offer.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:58 pm to Granola
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I live in Lafayette and love it. South Lafayette, Youngsville and Broussard are thriving. Great for families.
Woah there bud. This is the OT. You’re not allowed to say good things about a Louisiana city. You can’t be happy. Rules are rules. Self loathing only.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:58 pm to purple18
I would live in lafayette, br traffic has it’s moments
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:59 pm to Epic Cajun
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Having the number 1 attribute for your "city" be the 2 hour round trip away from a place that has awesome restaurants and entertainment isn't a great selling point, IMO. What does the actual "city" have to offer?
Well don’t get me wrong. I don’t think any city in Louisiana is particularly great. And I don’t live in mandeville but it’s a safe spot, has good public schools and an easy drive to Nola for entertainment.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 3:59 pm to purple18
Congrats on being told you’re the smartest kid on the short bus
Posted on 5/21/24 at 4:01 pm to NoBoDawg
quote:Ehhhh... I feel like most people say this because of the thruway which absolutely sucks. The rest of the traffic is fine until you get outside of Lafayette and into the surrounding areas that are still working on the infrastructure to go with the population booms. Even then though traffic is good outside of rush hour and the occasional detours when a bridge is being worked on or a new roundabout is being installed.
traffic sucks
Posted on 5/21/24 at 4:10 pm to turnpiketiger
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Commuting to Nola is not a viable option.
Why not? If we are just basing the argument off of jobs solely in Mandeville vs Lafayette, then yes Lafayette is the winner here.
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we’re talking entertainment Lafayette is 3 hours to Houston which would blow out anything Nola has to offer.
I agree with this but it’s still 3 hours away.
What does Lafayette offer for entertainment? I remember the downtown college bars but I admit it’s been a while since ive been there
This post was edited on 5/21/24 at 4:12 pm
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