Originally Posted by
deltaenterprizes
We moved to East Texas after Katrina and stayed because life was normal and only planned to stay for about 5 years, that was about 18 years ago!
My wife has no desire to go back to the New Orleans area even for a visit!
The people were very helpful and welcoming but it is a different culture than southeast Louisiana.
Not totally different because the rural areas have farms and ranches but they are not as prevalent as in East Texas.’
The food is good but different in many ways but they love Creole/Cajun food, that luckily I know how to cook, plenty of imitation Louisiana restaurants, small portions and high prices, fair quality.
Mexican food and barbecue abound, some good some fair.
The weather is colder in winter and plenty more hot in the summer!
The spring and fall are wonderful!
I do miss my fresh seafood but I go for a visit when I can and eat all I can and bring some home for later plus other assorted things like hogsheads cheese and recently boudain !
Crawfish are gold plated so I have begun to boil my own after Easter when the price goes down.
I recently saw a meme calling crawfish “chicken of the ditch”, it was poor people’s food when I was a kid because you could literally put nets in a ditch and catch enough for dinner and most probably still can! You have to watch out for water moccasins!
Believe it or not there are commercial crawfish ponds between Houston and Lake Charles around a Beaumont!
Plenty of shrimp and Gulf fish in Galveston too!