This Is What Life Is Like In Small Town Louisiana

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  • Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025

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  • @JimJones-gd2jy
    @JimJones-gd2jy Год назад +207

    That women should be soo proud ! She’s a shining example of a successful family unit . . 👏

    • @midcenturymodern9330
      @midcenturymodern9330 Год назад +1

      Looks like Democrats didn't get to her and to her family!

    • @melaniesingh7208
      @melaniesingh7208 Год назад +1

      She looked after us when we stayed at the Queen Anne. She was just as upbeat and friendly.

    • @Chriscovelli1
      @Chriscovelli1 10 месяцев назад

      Turned this off soon as she said ITS A GREAT PLACE TO RAISE A FAMILY. Complete BS. Live in New Orleans? Crime, poverty, and drugs everywhere. Live in the country? You won't make enough money to even live. So your options are, go fight for a low wage in a crime infested city. Or go out in the country and never be social again. You move here, YOU BECOME TRAPPED.

    • @beverlyaaron3056
      @beverlyaaron3056 5 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, she is a very nice person. I'm from Natchitoches Louisiana. I live in Atlanta Georgia now.

  • @DJPTEXAS
    @DJPTEXAS Год назад +205

    God bless that woman for being so positive...... good people, nice to see a town revive itself.

    • @midcenturymodern9330
      @midcenturymodern9330 Год назад

      @Fermati Chebellosei I agree. I stay away from downers.

    • @peterbelanger4094
      @peterbelanger4094 Год назад +3

      She's a total sweetheart. I get the impression this would be a 6 hour video if Nick just kept the camera running. Seems like the kind of woman you'd wind up talking too all day. But that is how things can be in small towns.

  • @laurie5098
    @laurie5098 Год назад +42

    I lived in Natchitoches for 13 years and I wish we had never moved! I still have good friends there. Wonderful place.

  • @ceridwynnhaven3335
    @ceridwynnhaven3335 Год назад +131

    I pray 🙏 for Louisiana; that we don't lose her. Such a beautiful state. People can say what they want; Louisiana has a piece of my heart.

    • @pegasus5287
      @pegasus5287 Год назад +10

      Lots of really good people, friendly and helpful

    • @gardinerb2
      @gardinerb2 Год назад +5

      I love living in Louisiana and I know alot of Louisianan people try to keep our state nice. My mom is over my parish keeping the trash pick up. But I know when I got out of the military this state was bad then it was when I joined the military

    • @brettbanta2100
      @brettbanta2100 Год назад +4

      Louisiana is the best

    • @shawnmeyer2788
      @shawnmeyer2788 Год назад +2

      Love Louisiana and I never lived there. I could!

    • @innotech
      @innotech Год назад +2

      ​@@gardinerb2 in Lafayette we definitely have a sense of community pride and really try to keep this city and its suburbs really nice and fun places to live and visit. Even the often neglected northside has had a revitilization and is a decent place to visit and shop. The schools are getting rebuilt too

  • @TL-wy1nk
    @TL-wy1nk Год назад +53

    That downtown looks really cute. I am glad people there have so much pride. It shows.

  • @tudo8412
    @tudo8412 Год назад +81

    Louisiana also has small cities to me it looks so peaceful and poetic. Even though I’ve been in this State for over forty years I still don’t know all of these cities, state that I ❤. Thank you so much NICK for making it happen, that’s great. 👍

    • @mariajiml9895
      @mariajiml9895 Год назад

      I will.not lived not veven for free Ni thanks

    • @marjanperveinis8355
      @marjanperveinis8355 Год назад +9

      @@mariajiml9895 in english please

    • @charleshoang566
      @charleshoang566 Год назад +1

      I travel around the country to work for the last 25 years, the only city I want to live is San Diego, California.

    • @phantomplayz7952
      @phantomplayz7952 Год назад +1

      You’ve never heard of Natchitoches? Its one of the first cities I learned about in the north. I played a high school playoff game at Northwestern, atleast in the fall the campus has a cool vibe, it looked like something out of new england with all the brick buildings and trees with only a few orange leaves left on their branches. We lost 7-45 against St. Marys but it was still a cool experience.

    • @phantomplayz7952
      @phantomplayz7952 Год назад

      @@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 i meant in north louisiana

  • @EthnosSynergyEnergy
    @EthnosSynergyEnergy Год назад +31

    Southern hospitality is a real thing. Having been born and raised in Louisiana, and moving out west later in life, you see the stark difference 😊

  • @marycahill546
    @marycahill546 Год назад +23

    Greetings from Canada. I like this town. Everyone keeps up their property, lawns are mowed etc. They have self respect.

  • @ewetoobblowzdogg8410
    @ewetoobblowzdogg8410 Год назад +72

    Our little town in southern Louisiana only has a pop of 537, and yet is just an hour from NOLA and less to Baton Rouge. We are surrounded by miles of woods that run heavy with deer and wild pig, plus have many rivers and lakes within them that are thick with fish. Best part is our local public school still says a prayer at beginning and end of school assemblies.

    • @peaceevol
      @peaceevol Год назад +1

      What town are you

    • @slimshadyslim1877
      @slimshadyslim1877 Год назад +1

      ​@albertrichardson5164 I think they just made this up wanting to comment 😊

    • @ewetoobblowzdogg8410
      @ewetoobblowzdogg8410 Год назад +3

      @@slimshadyslim1877 Nope. Just an hour from New Orleans and less to Baton Rouge but tucked back in the woods, surroundedby water. It doesn't suck

    • @peaceevol
      @peaceevol Год назад +1

      @@slimshadyslim1877 not at all I am familiar with the area in general and that sounds like the area.

    • @mkctv20
      @mkctv20 Год назад +1

      River Parishes or Ascension?

  • @gayprepperz6862
    @gayprepperz6862 Год назад +10

    Amen! I lived in the South for over 15 years, living in Birmingham & Memphis, respectively. The thing I have never forgotten, and most admire about the South is their hospitality, and the way they still address laddies as "Mam", and grown men as "Sir". Also, you can't set foot in a Southern home without them setting the table and putting food before you. To refuse is the worst of manners. I learned that from personal experience. I cherish those old Southern hospitalities, and to this day I practice them up here, in Missouri. I'm glad the South still honors some of the old ways. Doesn't matter what color you are, if you enter a Southern home, White or Black, or whatever, they're going to fill you up with food. If anyone has ever wondered what the carved pineapple on the gate post or the woodwork of the home means, it stands for hospitality. Offering food and entertaining guest is an art that the South has never lost or forsaken, no matter what your background is.

  • @kpokpojiji
    @kpokpojiji Год назад +38

    Just as a note, some absolutely magnificent trees there!❤❤

  • @timgoodsell4053
    @timgoodsell4053 Год назад +58

    I moved to Louisiana 8 years ago after 40 years in Chicago. Best decision I ever made. You couldn’t drag me back. We tend to get a lot of demeaning press coverage about the state so I appreciate the evenhanded coverage of this video. I’m telling you, the quality of Louisiana life is the best kept secret in America. Let’s keep it that way😊!

    • @lesliecas2695
      @lesliecas2695 Год назад +9

      Then you should stop advertisingit. The Californians will descend on you.

    • @chrispnw2547
      @chrispnw2547 Год назад +5

      I recall when I visited Louisiana and my family was grossed out by all the roadkill on the rural roads.
      The ultimate shocker was when a car up the road paused near roadkill and dragged it into the car.
      What's for dinner in your house tonight?
      🐒🐒

    • @jamesd242
      @jamesd242 Год назад +5

      brutally humid though

    • @thomasskrappy3250
      @thomasskrappy3250 Год назад +2

      The bad press helps keep the riff raff away. ala Edwin Edwards rip

    • @timgoodsell4053
      @timgoodsell4053 Год назад +1

      @@chrispnw2547 Dinner will be “Road kill ‘a lorange” with a saucy little California Chardonnay, mmm mmm good!

  • @BonBonShrimp
    @BonBonShrimp Год назад +20

    The live oak trees in the south are just beautiful and give so much character to these places.

  • @scottcoleman2876
    @scottcoleman2876 Год назад +15

    What an upbeat positive woman 👍 the country needs more folks like her 👍

  • @markwray366
    @markwray366 Год назад +178

    In Louisiana, we don't have a county, we have a parish.👍

    • @Trill_life
      @Trill_life Год назад +5

      I’m glad you said that, whats the difference? You have Maricopa County, L.A County,etc and are you’ll the only ones with Parish

    • @williamwilson6499
      @williamwilson6499 Год назад +6

      @@Trill_life …and are you’ll the only ones with Parish? English much?

    • @Trill_life
      @Trill_life Год назад +2

      @@williamwilson6499 let’s put another scrimp on the Barbie

    • @OjukwuIsaac
      @OjukwuIsaac Год назад +4

      ​@@Trill_life Yeah, Puerto Rico; although not a state yet, also has parishes.

    • @OjukwuIsaac
      @OjukwuIsaac Год назад +4

      @@williamwilson6499 Also Alaska called theirs Boroughs instead of counties. So Alaska and Louisiana are the only states that go by other names instead of counties. Alaska - Boroughs, Louisiana - Parishes, Rest of 48 States - Counties

  • @md6280
    @md6280 Год назад +46

    Loved your West Virginia Tour of Poverty. As my Granny said back in 1980, every few years the young reporters discover there's poverty in Appalachia. Also, that reporter for NCW I think sent me photos of poverty in Appalachia to my remote outpost in Niger Republic. My Nigerienne co workers got a real hoot out of what poverty in America looks like. They were eager to volunteer to be poor in Appalachia. Ha Ha

    • @Perfectly-Imperfect
      @Perfectly-Imperfect Год назад +9

      I love my little part of the WV Appalachia world. We might not all have lots of money but we are more rich in other ways 🙏🏻 God bless!

    • @relaxingnature6766
      @relaxingnature6766 Год назад +3

      @@Perfectly-Imperfect It's very sad that half our population has no idea what REAL poverty looks like. I think i remember someone telling me that 50% of the worlds population lives on a $1 a day. (South America, Africa, India, China). Even the poorest of poor in America are blessed beyond measure compared to some other countries. But God is the ultimate blessing, I'd consider myself (medium income) more blessed than Billionaires!

    • @Perfectly-Imperfect
      @Perfectly-Imperfect Год назад +3

      @@relaxingnature6766 Exactly..we are blessed beyond measure. My bf has been to Haiti several times and from what he’s said we really don’t realize how good we have it. 🙏🏻

    • @corrinnacorrinna5572
      @corrinnacorrinna5572 Год назад +2

      ​@@Perfectly-ImperfectWe are one of the prettiest states. I love my WV home!!

    • @Perfectly-Imperfect
      @Perfectly-Imperfect Год назад +2

      @@corrinnacorrinna5572 I totally agree!

  • @nanokabano
    @nanokabano Год назад +17

    Wow, love seeing this small town, so full of character. I haven't been to the south in a long time. You are educating us about our country.

  • @lenchenes
    @lenchenes Год назад +3

    Been there in Natchitoches when we're looking for a place to move in. But we ended up here in FL.
    Christmas time is the best time to go to Natchitoches.

  • @JanJohnson-h5z
    @JanJohnson-h5z Год назад +11

    what a lovely pretty old town. i also brought my child up in a country town, It was the best thing in the 1980's. the rest of the world was going nutz like it is now. thanks for showing an outsider the beauty of the south.USA

  • @jasonmillers6941
    @jasonmillers6941 Год назад +10

    A video that actually left me feeling hopeful. God bless all the fine people of Natchitoches.

  • @GEAUXFRUGAL
    @GEAUXFRUGAL Год назад +10

    My life in S. Louisiana is great,2 min drive from my house to a WMT grocery. 70380 is perfectly situated where you don't need a car . Bike will do.
    Nachitoches LA has a good college. My daughter graduated there recently. They filmed that Dolly Parton movie. They have a great Christmas light presentation.

    • @TEXASLOYAL
      @TEXASLOYAL 10 месяцев назад

      Northwestern State University

  • @bpar73
    @bpar73 Год назад +8

    Great job finding another facsinating person to interview. She was awesome and offered a lot of refreshing wisdom.

  • @j.daniel6516
    @j.daniel6516 Год назад +20

    Thank you, Nick, for sharing this video! I think you accurately and fairly described life not only in this town, but many small towns across the South. I particularly liked the interview with the resident. Small town living is not without its negatives but the overall hospitality and love of community by the residents can make up for most of the disadvantages.

    • @adewilson132
      @adewilson132 Год назад

      What are some of the negatives in places like this?

    • @j.daniel6516
      @j.daniel6516 Год назад +2

      @@adewilson132 Poverty, crime, lack of employment opportunities to name a few.

  • @marvhan888
    @marvhan888 Год назад +7

    Im feeling so positive for this lady, she play safe and yet now she reap it all, going through life peacefully in the town

  • @tracywilson1356
    @tracywilson1356 Год назад +39

    I love Louisiana architecture. It’s so beautiful.

    • @ThaiThom
      @ThaiThom Год назад +2

      @@gregorytravers And Spain.

  • @sookietrueblood-gp4sd
    @sookietrueblood-gp4sd Год назад +8

    Such a good , grateful and positive lady. Wonderful to see, thanks Nick❤

  • @Gerbengiorgio
    @Gerbengiorgio Год назад +23

    Good to know that some places in the US are still progressing.

  • @denisemartinez5144
    @denisemartinez5144 Год назад +11

    Hi Nick from Seattle!! Thanks for your great videos! I really like your sense of humor and commentaries!!! Keep it up !!!

  • @glennfolau6959
    @glennfolau6959 Год назад +12

    I have always wanted to visit and travel through Louisiana, and one day God willing, I will. I am from New Zealand, we couldn't be further away from Louisiana, I have been to the United States before, and had real difficulty finding meat pies. I glad to know that they eat them in Louisiana.

    • @glennfolau6959
      @glennfolau6959 Год назад

      @Brandi latiolais I will have to visit. We eat crawfish, although we call it crayfish.

    • @glennfolau6959
      @glennfolau6959 Год назад +1

      @Brandi latiolais eating neat pies, of various kinds, i.e, steak, lamb, mince, smoked fish, is the reason I struggle with my weight. New Orleans seems to have a fascinating, but "spooky" history. I think that to experience the real Louisiana, you have to venture out of New Orleans.

    • @charleshoang566
      @charleshoang566 Год назад +1

      I am native of Vietnam there are many homes in Vietnam like the ones in Louisiana, we also make meatpie and eat French sandwich,there is a big Vietnamese community in New Orleans, Louisiana about 25,000.

  • @tmmckee
    @tmmckee Год назад +25

    I live in Bastrop, and you are right. There is a lot of crime here. They hide the actual numbers.

  • @hbendzulla8213
    @hbendzulla8213 Год назад +25

    Nick, your show is so good you should have 8 million people signed up to watch your stuff. I just love it.

  • @haley2684
    @haley2684 Год назад +8

    I've never thought about visiting Louisiana from some of the stories I've heard from people in New Orleans, but this is the side I feel like people don't usually see. Definitely makes me want to visit now. I'm glad to see some of these small cities reviving themselves. Thanks for the video, Nick! Also hearing this lady talk is so refreshing! We need more like her.

    • @permanentvacation2406
      @permanentvacation2406 Год назад

      New Orleans is a crime infested shit hole compared to the rest of Louisiana

    • @winnon992
      @winnon992 9 месяцев назад

      I live in Louisiana and won’t go anywhere near NO. I value my life too much !

  • @sinepari9160
    @sinepari9160 Год назад +3

    i work with people from all over the world and always say yes maa'm and sir.. they give me hard time about it but that's just how I was raised. They treat me like a hillbilly but that's just basic respect for me.. along with holding doors etc. And it doesn't matter what color race or creed, homeless or not you are.. just basic respect for the fellow man.. we're all human and deserve the same respect.

  • @exploringsydneyandbeyond9059
    @exploringsydneyandbeyond9059 Год назад +8

    Great video, what a beautiful woman, loving her town and family, she gives this town great credit. She's found a life and a place that she loves, I'm very happy for her

  • @nathanmoak1515
    @nathanmoak1515 Год назад +7

    that is the town where jim croce played his last concert before his band and he crashed on takeoff and they all died in september 1973! my youngest sister was going
    to the university and attended that concert. a sad time was guaranteed for all. i grew up in a very small town in louisiana and everybody knew i was nobody.

    • @jayclarke6671
      @jayclarke6671 Год назад +1

      Sad day. Jim Croce was a brilliant songwriter and singer who should be more well known than he is.

  • @ahmednalayeh2656
    @ahmednalayeh2656 Год назад +5

    New Orleans, Louisiana, it is my first City, and state where I came to as foreign student, on August, 1980. I
    I love Louisiana.

  • @kwdoug
    @kwdoug Год назад +29

    You’re doing a great job my friend keep it up, this country in the world needs to see the truth. Especially the decline of all cities

  • @larrydawson1445
    @larrydawson1445 Год назад +5

    When i was employed on the road back in the 60's, this was my favorite town. Just a peaceful atmosphere always.

  • @georgevan3102
    @georgevan3102 Год назад +6

    Way to go Nick this video has been out 14 minutes and 610 views keep up the good work Buddy

  • @joshpratt5519
    @joshpratt5519 Год назад +11

    "Cities like these just need somebody to care"💕

  • @heatherbrodian6129
    @heatherbrodian6129 Год назад +6

    I think this is the most beautiful video yet! ❤

  • @JoshuaScalf
    @JoshuaScalf Год назад +4

    Another great video. I really enjoy seeing these in Louisiana. I am glad you found some of the silver lining in this state.

  • @ottoduncan3538
    @ottoduncan3538 Год назад +2

    Glad to see this. The paternal side of my famliy originated in Natchitoches Parish in the 1800's. They were free people of color and land owners. They lived in the Cane River area and later moved into town. I have a copy of a will made by my father's grandmother in 1887 before he was born. My father attended a church school due to the lack of public school education. He was sent to New Orleans to continue his education, later becoming a physician. We spent summers in Natchitoches and in the mid 1950's, the principal allowed my siblings and myself to attend the St. Matthew school even though we were from New Orleans. They had a "split" school session because many families raised cotton or worked on farms. I am familiar with all of the areas you visited including the restaurants. Front Street was formerly the main shopping area. It is now mainly for tourists. Things are a lot different now, of course. There were two movie theaters and a drive in. Many young people of my generation moved away after high school or college. Some remained. I am responsible for property in the Breda Town community that has been in my family since around 1900. My grandfather is buried somewhere in the American Cemetery. I visit when I can. Thanks for this. I enjoy all of your content and I have subscribed.

  • @lljl5310
    @lljl5310 Год назад +3

    Thank you for the upload Nick. I love the extra bonus with mappy and fam! 😊😊😊

  • @keithtimmons378
    @keithtimmons378 Год назад +4

    It’s great to see people trying. I wish them much success.

  • @spitfirered
    @spitfirered Год назад +5

    Great Video Nick, This Place Is Really Nice, Keep Up The Good Travels!

  • @raptorpaw
    @raptorpaw Год назад +3

    Love your trips all over US and amazed to see the people who struggles but seems happy, unbelievable touching segments of poverty which I couldn't believe at first when I found your channel. Cool lady who surely has some skin on her nose, all in all, this was a good one, Nick, see you!

  • @irahandwerker8557
    @irahandwerker8557 Год назад +1

    i appreciate you showing the contrast and realism ofthe improved part of town and the rural deep south aspect

  • @rogerburn5132
    @rogerburn5132 Год назад +3

    Nick. Brilliant Program.. BIG THANKS FOR. YOUR HARD WORK. 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @patticampana9458
    @patticampana9458 Год назад +3

    My cousin and her husband travel the country twice a year in their RV and they love the people in Loisiana. I was there for Mardi Gras, met nice people. Unfortunately, the tourists were Richard Heads! Not my favorite vacation. What a wonderful woman, more should be like her! Thanks Nick✌️

  • @chrispnw2547
    @chrispnw2547 Год назад +41

    I believe America is looking so bad because we are a physically big nation and when things start to age, instead of fixing them, we prefer to start over somewhere else. I'm shocked these houses in the small towns (with few employers) are going for $250K+. Who can afford these mortgages?

    • @dcg590
      @dcg590 Год назад +6

      You should see the prices here in MA! Look it up! Over $600,000.00!

    • @chrispnw2547
      @chrispnw2547 Год назад +5

      @@dcg590 We are in for a rude awakening when these $600K+ homes can't sell because of high mortgage rates, 20% down, and high insurance rates. My homeowners insurance is increasing as the value increases (replacement value).

    • @amicaaranearum
      @amicaaranearum Год назад

      Retirees with savings or money from the sale of their previous homes.

    • @neetfreek9921
      @neetfreek9921 Год назад +4

      This town has Louisiana’s “prestige” high school (lsmsa) where all the top scoring kids in the state get sent to for boarding school. It’s a large reason why people even go there.

    • @OloRishaCreole504
      @OloRishaCreole504 Год назад

      @@chrispnw2547 alot of celebs are coming in and buying up our places

  • @F_C...
    @F_C... Год назад +20

    "it used to be a plantation, we don't have those anymore" the plantations of today are mostly in California and now use south Americans instead of blacks for labor.

    • @Justaguywithtruth
      @Justaguywithtruth Год назад

      👏😂 This will go over many heads😆 California raises the price on everything, approved Underage Prostitution, Pedophilia, Politicians snort Coke, eat cheese, drink wine.. creating more lawless, homicides, gang violence, robberies, tell people it's their fault then Tax, Steal more money from them.. They'll charge for breathing to but stick it under some Globalists/Wicked Climate Change Bullcrap😒 Majority of California especially the Southern part is full of Woke Zombies, 150 genders with only two being Real and Drugs / Human Trafficking growing and murdering in records numbers🎠🎈🎭🎪🔍👺✋😡

    • @Justaguywithtruth
      @Justaguywithtruth Год назад

      ​@@blackcherry6877 Wherever there's Chaotic Minded, Woke Liberalism there's plantations.. Government Sponsored. It's why they can go steal thousands of dollars in merchandise and not go to jail, Piss and crap in the streets.. Have tent cities everywhere full of increased homelessness because Demoncrats are pushing Marxism, Socialism and Repubawhores are Stealing for Corporations they pretend to hate... It's not that hard people.. Focus on Ideaology, less on skin pigmentation.. Satan don't care what color you are but he will use it for hate and Division😎☝

    • @eyestoseeearstohear9030
      @eyestoseeearstohear9030 Год назад +1

      ​@@blackcherry6877 😅 sorry but your comment really made me lol. Clearly that person is easily confused.

    • @junglesuperstar9270
      @junglesuperstar9270 Год назад +1

      Now it is called corporations

  • @MikeinNice
    @MikeinNice Год назад +8

    Fascinating, uplifting and, in a way, depressing. It is like the soul has left ... Thank you again for sharing your travels and thoughts, always appreciated! Feel sorry for the kids having to spell their town's name :)

    • @tinawindham6958
      @tinawindham6958 Год назад +4

      Maybe your kids spelling your last name✌️

  • @teresaharris-travelbybooks5564
    @teresaharris-travelbybooks5564 Год назад +7

    Now I'd definitely go to the oyster house and listen to some Zydeco music. Possibly the high curbs are to contain storm water?

  • @alinapatricia8639
    @alinapatricia8639 Год назад +2

    Very nice, Nick. Great that you showed us this small town and the wonderful lady that you interviewed. I think she nailed it - you know, how everyone ought to conduct themselves. Life essentials: respect and kindness...and faithfulness. It's the only way to live a joyful, fulfilling life. :-)

  • @toomanymodz
    @toomanymodz Год назад +6

    Bless that lady. She is so excited over a Chik Fil A.

  • @nancywood9027
    @nancywood9027 Год назад +7

    Hospitality is what I like too. Bless the South!

  • @williamshafer1996
    @williamshafer1996 10 месяцев назад +1

    Wow. It's not bad. I've been going to Natchitoches for over 40 years and have never seen it run down. I crashed a party once at the steel magnolia house. Just walked in like i owned the place and ate their food. It can be fun around Christmas. I've never been jealous of a town, though.

  • @sashismith1022
    @sashismith1022 Год назад +4

    Hi. Very nice vlog. Loved
    seeing the area pretty impressive. Nice to see the house from Steel Magnolia
    one of my favorite movies. Thanks for ride along with
    shares & history of the town.
    Enjoy your day. 🌄

  • @RLeeVanCamps
    @RLeeVanCamps Год назад +6

    Thanks for sharing. Good to see a city picking themselves up. We could use more of that in America😊

  • @gatrgurlfl3980
    @gatrgurlfl3980 Год назад +5

    I am from Metairie and moved to Florida when I was 17. I still remember those drive thru liquor stores all over North Central Florida in the 70s 😅😅

  • @doylebrockman8225
    @doylebrockman8225 Год назад +23

    Louisiana is sheer beauty
    .

  • @empress3112
    @empress3112 Год назад +33

    She was so right, in the South respect takes you a long way ,always respect your elders the Bible tells us that, but children now days are not taught those very important values in life,and it’s sad Blessings everyone thanks for your video’s 🙏🏼❤️Nick

    • @robertw377
      @robertw377 Год назад

      Lol! Without fail the most crime ridden parts and places with least education in America are in the Bible Belt. Horrific hypocrisy.

  • @noodlesmama9096
    @noodlesmama9096 Год назад +12

    Nachitoches is where Jim Croce died in a plane crash in 1973.

    • @decacards5250
      @decacards5250 Год назад +6

      Great singer/songwriter, gone too soon.

  • @jomama5186
    @jomama5186 Год назад +2

    Love you Nock! Love your content kiddo! Great sense of humor! Keep up the great work!!!!❤🙏

  • @potterg04
    @potterg04 Год назад +4

    What an awesome video! I really enjoyed listening to the woman explaining how beautiful it is to live in the SOUTH!! So True!!! 👍

  • @Perfectly-Imperfect
    @Perfectly-Imperfect Год назад +11

    I’m not saying anything bad about anywhere. Being from WV.. I know how it feels being stereotyped. ( And how many people buy into that bs) As long as you are happy, work hard for an honest living and try to be a decent human being, that’s all that matters.

  • @patricktimothy8354
    @patricktimothy8354 Год назад +3

    I need to look through my physical photos laying around. I took a picture of a dumpster outside Nacogdoches that had a spray painted "no dead animals" and "Bob"- on it.Not stenciled or anything either.There are some really impoverished places around there along with the old money mansions.
    I only recently learned where their famous meat pies came from.They were always an oddity to me in the strongly French influenced food here in Louisiana.
    Well,they are basically ground beef/ground pork empanadas.And they go back to when Louisiana was under Spanish control. I did know that the wrought iron balconies we have are from the Spanish. And our Jambalaya dish is a form of payea.
    And there are plenty of snobs out there,I have heard from quite a few people who lived there and or went to college at Northwestern Louisiana University.

  • @susan5301
    @susan5301 Год назад +2

    Your videos are always so fabulous and informative! Keep up the good work! ♥

  • @wendyc1902
    @wendyc1902 Год назад +2

    Natchitoches is where they filmed Steel Magnolias. Oops you just said it 😉
    My son and ex husband are Creole and come from the Cane River just outside of town.
    His family didn't have indoor plumbing until he was in high school in the late 60's...7 kids!
    Although I have yet to go, the Christmas Lights Festival has a big tourist pull.
    Louisiana gets a bad rap but the people here are the best...native Louisianans that is, some that move here don't know how to appreciate all that Louisiana has to offer.

  • @meliahicks7277
    @meliahicks7277 Год назад +3

    In case you didn't notice while you were visiting my beautiful state, our licence plates read, Sportsman's Paradise. If it crawls, flies, swims, slithers, walks on all fours, and doesn't eat us first, we have a recipe for it!!

  • @jamesfoster4555
    @jamesfoster4555 10 месяцев назад +1

    The old ran down school St. Mathews…I went to school there. But that was a long time ago. Mr. Batiste was the principal.

  • @DUMPSTERDIVINGADELAIDE123
    @DUMPSTERDIVINGADELAIDE123 Год назад +6

    Good morning Nick, I love this video, Take care 😊

  • @NewHaven203
    @NewHaven203 Год назад +6

    Louisiana’s license plate says “Sportsman Paradise” because of all the hunting that takes place in the state.

  • @genegarrard7839
    @genegarrard7839 Год назад +3

    This Woman is Unreal !

  • @MsPraline
    @MsPraline Год назад +1

    My father in law is from Natchitoches. Hubs took me to the drive thru daiquiri shop 🍹 Mrs. Moody is a wonderful ambassador for Natchitoches, Louisiana!

  • @newtonlee7849
    @newtonlee7849 Год назад +1

    Glad to see you show a nicely managed town as a contrast to videos showing towns over run by homelessness & poverty.

  • @MisterLowrider
    @MisterLowrider 9 месяцев назад +1

    He said the squirrel tastes like an owl. What's an owl 🦉 taste like? 😂😂

  • @thefilmeffect6089
    @thefilmeffect6089 Год назад +3

    I loved your video. I live in Alexandria, Louisiana. It’s an hour away from Natchitoches. I drive there once a month to my doctor appointment, but I’ve never really got to experience everything it had to offer.

    • @jams9271
      @jams9271 Год назад +1

      I live in Pineville 😊 but from Alexandria

  • @allsmilz7234
    @allsmilz7234 Год назад +2

    Thx4share Excellent Content 👍

  • @gayleneal9541
    @gayleneal9541 Год назад +4

    I’m looking for a smallish town to live in. From Los Angeles originally, now Las Vegas. And Vegas is getting bigger every year.

  • @trumanstanley8040
    @trumanstanley8040 7 месяцев назад +1

    I lived in Alexandria, La not far from Natchitoches ,La. Natchitoches is a great place . All these small towns have a Historical past why be negative about this town . You must be from up north.

  • @seeriktus
    @seeriktus Год назад +2

    19:00 Those headstones are a lot like I see in the UK today. From what I've seen in graveyards all over the country, they mainly cropped up in the 1800s for some reason, with very few dating before then (even here). And a lot of them are in a similar style to what you showed, with a similar placing and fencing also.

  • @oscarmason3252
    @oscarmason3252 Год назад +3

    The lady at the end was right about one thing, people still greet most people with ma'am and sir in the south

  • @lorainestjames4181
    @lorainestjames4181 Год назад +2

    The Trees are absolutely stunning , and the downtown has been restored to it former glory and then some. You end with that powerful storm , so manyTornados in the area has many travellers including yourself puting boots on the ground footage in their filming. There has been so many this year and some very distructive. 😎

  • @shawnmeyer2788
    @shawnmeyer2788 Год назад +2

    We have eaten at Mama’s Oyster House. Food and service was excellent!

  • @Norm475
    @Norm475 Год назад +7

    I was stationed at Barksdale AFB in 63-64 which is located next to Bossier City. I like Louisiana, it truly is a party state, very different than Mississippi. I've been back a few times since. Now I winter in Florida and I spend the summers in Wisconsin. One thing I've noticed is race relations are better in the South than in the North. Looking at the city of Natchitoches shows was good leadership can accomplish. Unfortunately, good leadership is sorely lacking in most of the large cities in the country.

  • @USSLKA-116
    @USSLKA-116 Год назад +5

    Nick, great work here. CCR's "Born on the Bayou" would have been good music to play for this segment.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Год назад +4

    Asking what people's values are in an area is genius, it really puts the respondent in a position to state what their values are.
    It would be a red flag for anyone if the respondent had no decisive answer for the question.

  • @stillnotwoke
    @stillnotwoke Год назад +3

    "Relavation"@21:00? I think it's "revelation", Nick, not to "Nick-pick" you 🤣. Love your videos... 😉 High curbs rock...

  • @ceridwynnhaven3335
    @ceridwynnhaven3335 Год назад +6

    What a sweetheart; that lady. 😊

  • @visionsbydean
    @visionsbydean Год назад +4

    The passenger most certainly cannot drink alcohol in the vehicle. They put tape over the top of the drink and hand you a straw, so you can drink it when you get to a destination. If you are busted with the straw in that drink, it's an open container, which will get you in trouble in Louisiana.

  • @robertw377
    @robertw377 Год назад +6

    The motto of every town in the deep South should be "Welcome, Don't leave anything unlocked or be outside alone after 10PM , have fun".

  • @sdraper2011
    @sdraper2011 Год назад +2

    I wonder if those really high curbs had something to do with getting in and out of carriages.

  • @beverlyaaron3056
    @beverlyaaron3056 5 месяцев назад

    I'm from Natchitoches Louisiana. I worked with her at sonics drive-in on Keyser Avenue. She's a very nice person.😊

  • @sterling557
    @sterling557 Год назад

    Hello Nick. I like your way of speaking, and your understated humor and compliments.😆😃😜

  • @dimplypaprika7693
    @dimplypaprika7693 Год назад +1

    I graduated college from Northwestern and lived in Natchitoches for 4 years. I have great memories there and never had any bad experiences. Christmas on the riverfront is great and the town is very comfortable. You cited crime statistics that made it sound pretty bad, but in the 4 years i lived there i have never experienced any of it.

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Год назад +2

    So glad she moved to the South.

  • @taudin880
    @taudin880 Год назад +2

    That part about where my ancestors learned. Broke my heart. Rotten

    • @charleshoang566
      @charleshoang566 Год назад +1

      They should fix and preserve it as the historic place.

  • @henrysantos121
    @henrysantos121 Год назад +3

    this Videos was absolutely amazing well done,