southsleuth
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Can't find the "Thanks" button, so I want to tell you "Very well said"! Unfortunately people form opinions of all sorts of places without knowing much, and I've noticed it happens a great deal to us in the south.Actually, the word you are looking for is "micro" since you have never been here and base your entire opinion on a 4 year old satellite capture from google maps. Where are you from by the way? Not one bad street in your whole town eh? The areas you are referring to are miniscule in comparisson to the beautiful parts of the city. I've been pretty much everywhere in the US and Lafayette is one of the safest most colorful places I've ever been. So much beautiful landscaping and architecture. The rural areas and shacks are far and in between...don't know what you are referring to there. And let me say, the actual "rural" areas in the surrounding towns are extremely safe in comparisson to urban locations everywhere. I grew up on a farm myself (after moving here from Atlanta) and I absolutely loved it. I'm so glad I got such a well rounded childhood, getting to experience city life and nature first hand. We played outside, we weren't glued to the tv, we lived for adventure and we learned how to form our own opinions without basing it entirely on the mainstream media. The majority of people here are so wonderful. If we get an outsider at work my co-workers jump tp make them feel at home, are truly interested in learning about where they are from and bring them heaping bowls of food. It is not only family oriented here, but we make new people feel at home here as well. To be honest I havent seen that hardly anywhere.
The reason such a huge volunteer effort came from absolute strangers for Mickey is because A. nothing like that ever happens here and B. we genuinely care about our neighbor's well-being
There is much more to a town than a screen shot. You might want to think about that before telling people to "get the heck out of dodge".