Comment by Korps_de_Krieg on 03/02/2025 at 04:15 UTC

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Having grown up in St. Tammany, fuck that place. A giant collection of strip malls, prosperity gospel churches, and cops with nothing better to do but harass people.

I grew up in Lacombe and was treated like a second class citizen by pill popping suburban Mandeville shitheads my entire childhood. Everything remotely cool about Mandeville got shut down 20 years ago and made into more churches. It's faux Christian play acting over the shittiest veneer of absolute materialism combined with white flight from NOLA in one sewer cocktail of fucking garbage human beings.

I wouldn't move back if they paid me, as shitty as Hammond was the people there at least felt real the decade I lived there. There was mutual recognition of struggle and people just trying to make it. Mandeville was a giant cesspool of people ready to sniff their own farts and proclaim how much better they were then everyone while being terrified of minorities.

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Comment by pantherinthelowpalm at 03/02/2025 at 04:22 UTC

21 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Old Mandeville was kind of cool.

Comment by cubann_ at 03/02/2025 at 17:43 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Paragraph dissing st Tammany parish and Slidell wasn’t mentioned😎😎😎

Comment by DirtySouthMade at 03/02/2025 at 10:08 UTC

10 upvotes, 2 direct replies

We’re from lacombe originally. Just full of crack head no lives

Comment by Ok-Course-2355 at 03/02/2025 at 14:21 UTC

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Second this. Moved there at 14 and lived there until 17 (I moved out of the house to live with a friend’s family) because my mom got engaged to this covert narc she knew from high school and had a long distance online relationship with while we were in north louisiana after Katrina. She didn’t realize obviously until she sold her house and relocated there. We had never actually been to Mandeville, just slidell sometimes. Him and his family treated her and her children like the inferior class and ghetto, even though my mom is a class crosser and now makes 6 figures a year and has a master’s degree while he only has an associates and family support. I loved/cared for my step siblings but in reflection my siblings were all academically better and better athletes. And he hated that because he thought so little of my family. She is very “south shore” and a vibrant outspoken woman. She came from nothing and I think that has more weight than just being handed everything on a silver platter, and still being mediocre. That’s why they resort to classism. And racism. Because they suck and their utopian island is whack. I developed for the first time clinical depression. They pride themselves on being rich but have nothing to do there. It taught me being rich is more about culture and having a memorable adventurous life, not money. Wealth is having a real community and freedom of will. I was isolated my entire high school experience at Mandeville and my only asylum was NOCCA until found friends online at fountainbleu. I know my mom stays there to save on my younger siblings going to public school, that’s what she stayed in north louisiana for. They have great schools at least. But that should just be the norm. I always beg her to leave because I feel like she’s put herself in a personal prison. But I can’t tell her what to do. She knows what she’s doing, and why she chooses to live there lol I guess I��m glad you survived We are the survivors of St Tammany hahaha

Comment by untied_dawg at 03/02/2025 at 15:29 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

damn.

you told the absolute truth with this post.

Comment by LushBrianna at 03/02/2025 at 11:50 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

t’s good that you’ve found places and communities that feel more genuine to you, even if they’re not perfect.