W2R
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Having lived in Baton Rouge for 15 years and visiting New Orleans many times, I fully agree. DD's in-laws lived in New Orleans and moved to Pierre Port so we've spent lots of time in both places as we get on great with them. Pierre Part is only about 80 miles from their old place in Metairie but the community, accent and culture is different again. (very different!)
So true! I had some friends down south of Lafayette when I lived in BR, and loved their Cajun traditions and culture, warmth, and friendliness. I could more or less understand their fractured French but couldn't speak French like that at all, myself. In fact, the first couple of years after I moved to New Orleans I drove clear out there to see them every month or two because I missed them and that life and culture, yet another that is nearby but so different from New Orleans. But the drive got to be too far, and we drifted apart.
I have never really missed BR itself, but it might be a nice sedate place to grow old, I suppose.
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