they are some of the nicest people you will meet , granted in the bigger cities you do not see all that discrimination. it is mainly in the rural areas , even then they are not that discriminatory.

Descrimination towards non whites can be subtle.

Awesome! Thank you for the great comment, Donald. :)

Lived here most of my life. Mover 2x and moved back for the people!!

@@ayatollahkhomeini3073 yes, why

I live in Lafayette and I can 100% agree with everything you just wrote about the people here….. its just different. Yes there is a “bad part” of town. But mostly, good people and good food!

@@337_Brandon of your referring to the north side of town it’s not that bad. That’s the side that he was mainly on during his tour.

I totally agree.

We love Jesus too 💕 Maw maw made sure we knew the 3 steps of salvation!

@@d-tre4168 Yeah, and many of those "jesus lovers" wish to turn Lafayette, and the rest of louisiana into a theocracy. Pretty grotesque.

I live in Baton Rouge and I can’t wait to move. I do love Lafayette.

Thanks much. I agree as a Cajun lady

That food!! Yes!! The best!!

The food is great, and I don't think it's underrated. I've always been under the impression that the great food is one of the things the city is known for. :)

Agreed but I would add Metairie. It’s so nice out here.

Lafayette, Louisiana is a top pick in terms of livability and quality of life.

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip 48 years ago I first came to Lafayette, Louisiana on business travel. I fell in love with it then. Many of the French speaking people of the area have now passed on, but there's still descendants that do.

Will do, Eric.

Sounds good. I buy skin-on pork belly all the time and know how to make these. Delicious.

@@CosmicStargoat Yeah, I had a guy in my class in high school bring some homemade ones. I only ate one because they hadn’t removed all the hair. Had some hair course enough to pick your teeth with. I did my best to be polite and eat one, but then I was done. Lol

petos cheddar and 🌶 boudin balls are 🔥 too.

Famous foods in Lake Charles BEST cracklins, get the spicy wet cracklins. Soooo good never had anything like it.

Our pleasure!

Thank you for the great comment. :)

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip your welcome

@@HER-kk5xu I’m starting a series on comparing cities in the south. I’m a creole who hasn’t lived in Louisiana in over a decade wanted to know if you were interested in an interview about Lafayette.

2 minutes from downtown as well and born and raised in fightingville. I recently spoke with my mother and she told me my great grandmother was Broussards and our family owned acres of property that was taken. Also was told about the Broussard house and that it has so much history and relevance to our family. Wow we're probably related

@@louisinese I’m down sorry I just saw your message after someone told me to put down the crack pipe. I’m in another state now but I’m more than happy to help

Awesome comment. Thank you for that.

Great comment. KRVS is also one of my favorite parts of living here

Yes shout out to KRVS. I listen all the time. Thank you for these videos! I'm learning so much about Louisiana History ❤️

mais yeah, got dat ting right der!!

We really liked it there. It's a great town, one of the best in the US.

It's definitely one of the ten best I've visited - and I've visited a 171 cities in the past 13 months.

Not too crowded? Miss ma'am, you must not leave your house these days....... you can't get anywhere without getting slammed with traffic 🥴 (unless it's a sunday)

We had a great time, Jon. We love it there. :)

Thank you, Evelyn. Tell your Mom hello for me! :)

Awesome! Thank you.

The old building repurposed as an apartment building was the first hotel in town. And the Acadian Village was created when I was a child when people realized the old Acadian style houses were rotting away. Some of the places I remember as a child were disassembled and brought there. I used to love to explore those old abandoned houses as a child.

I’m from Lafayette (live here still!) and I was wondering if someone was gonna give him the correct pronunciation of boudin! 😅

Yeah, that’s what I thought, saved from what?!

We did enjoy it. Awesome food!

In my opinion, THE best in the country. :)

Lafayette has better food than the NOLA area. In NOLA it’s predominately creole, Lafayette is Cajun cooking, we add the secret ingredient- love!

@@ktmac7610 true and never any tomatoes lol.

@@awphooey2u519 yes! I hate tomatoes in gumbo!

Food is better in Lafayette.. ❤

That's right I'm a Broussard out of Lafayette and that's how we pronounce it!👍👍⚜️⚜️

I wish he would have learned how to pronounce a few things correctly before . Lol

I'm from Wisconsin and love Zydeco music! I had never heard it until we visited New Orleans at age 55. Can't get enough of it now!

Hey fellow Broussard, gotta love our family even the ones up north

My moms a Broussard

Wow Broussards are every where. There are Broussards in Abbeville and Lacassine too. Great family name!

I'm from Lafayette and I'm actually pretty good at playing drums and trombone. Never knew the talent came from my Broussard side!

She is awesome. We're big fans of her!

She was a highlight of the video! She seems like a lovely lady!

It absolutely is. :)

The most beautiful I've seen anywhere.

Thank you, Alexandra!

Good job presenting Lafayette. The Borden's Ice Cream shop is very busy in the afternoon when school lets out, and has long lines on the weekends, so it's a thriving business. Lafayette has some great festivals too; Festival International in May and Festivals 'cadian et creole in May and October. There are many dance halls in Lafayette and the surrounding towns. Dancing, Cajun, Zydeco, Jitterbug are very popular entertainments locally starting on Thursday nites and on through Sunday nite. (Cajuns love to dance!)

Matthew 24"5 KJV For many shall come in my name, saying, I am CHRIST, and shall deceive many. 😎🎸

@@69judge27 Deceive.

@@EricT3769 Were you able to absorb any value from this message beside assisting my spell check? 😎🎸

Thank you for that, UC. :)

@@69judge27 Yes, I was. Thought maybe you were trying to deceive us with some deceptive spelling errors. Your spell checker needs some help.

Thank you. :)

Thank you for the kind words, A Kelly. :)

Awesome! Thank you for the info.

Thank you for watching. :)

And the traffic of somewhere like Houston.

I have given up a lot of money and career success to stay in Lafayette, I will not leave. Moved away after college for an engineering job in Houston, and couldn't stand it or any of the other cities I visited. Eight years later, finally back!!

Tcoons best breakfast in the world 👍👍👍

It really is.

It's a pretty awesome place, Rajeev. Lots of interesting history, architecture and food that's among the best in the US.

Thank you for that!! :)

I'll remember that!

It reminds me of his Bois d'Arc flub a few weeks ago!

French nasal sounds... an, in, en, ain, ein, on, un... when you can master those you know you've reached a good level in French 😉😉

That was my impression as well, RR.

Lafayette definitely ain't safe lol for the most part the tourist areas are great, but there are definitely alot of bad areas. especially the north side.

Never felt unsafe? Maybe you didn’t stay long enough 😂

He should have toured downtown on a saturday night then we could have seen the true "safety" lol

It is truly a beautiful city. I spent some time in South Louisiana and fell right in with the people. They loved to poke fun at this Bama boy. Cheers from Alabama 🙂

Thank you, Emmanuel!

Thank you, John. :)

Thank you for the fill in info, Joyce, especially concerning the outhouse. Fascinating!

Thank you, Laura. The food was excellent. It's one of the things Lafayette is known for!

In Texas, for some reason, we emphasize the first syllable in pretty much all the words we say, which can make some of the things we say sound wack. My wife, who is from Philadelphia, loves to make fun of it. Which is funny in itself, cause Philly people got some cockamamie ways of pronouncing some words themselves.

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Too funny. They really mutilate my last name, Lemoine. Then my address Bayou DesGlaise that really throws them for a loop. All of the people in South Louisiana are some great people. When I was just out of high school I worked for a company Geaudeau Inc. making deliveries in South Louisiana. They were the nicest people. One of my stops was at a real old fashion general store. They sold everything from groceries, live stock feed, clothing material, ammunition and firearms. They did not speak any english Only Cajun French. It was an old man and his wife that owned the store. They had a pot belly stove in the middle of the store with rocking chairs around it. Before I started my route my first day, the owner of the company told me that some of the stores I went to, be prepared because they were going to offer me a Miller High Life beer and a link of boudin. He said don't turn it down or refuse it because it would insult them. So as I would go on my route, unload the merchandise and check it in, sure enough the owners of the stores would give me a beer and a link of boudin. They would keep the links in a hitachi rice cooker to keep it warm. By the time I would get back to the warehouse I was all screwed up. My boss would greet me and asked me how did it go and all he would do is laugh.

Come on home brother!

But you live in the largest city in that disputed area called no man’s land where there were so many freedom seeking, self reliant, independent people. I think that history is so unique in the US!

It’s hard to nail down exactly where the Neutral Strip started. From my research, it seems to have gone from the Calcasieu River, west to the Sabine River. That would put what would become Lake Charles in the Orleans Territory just like Lafayette. The first white settlers here were French in 1781 - the same time as the Acadians (they were from France but may have been Acadians. It’s hard to know since, contrary to popular belief, the expelled Acadians did not come to Louisiana directly from Nova Scotia. They were deported to France first). Over time, the area became a mix of northerners, Acadians and Creoles, and Anglo-Americans (like me) who mostly moved here for jobs in lumber, oil refining, and petrochemicals. The Neutral Strip history is an interesting subject, but there’s no particularly interesting language, food, music, and folklore associated with it. The Parish is also split culturally. The south and east of Calcasieu identity more with Acadiana, while the north and west are much like North Louisiana and the American South, in my observation.

Thank you for the great comment and good info. :)

Now that you said that...Cajun sounds like Creole plus Injun. However I though both the Cajun & Creole have native American blood. There's! even a "Redbone" and are they a strong, handsome people!

Thank you for watching, Loraine!

I wouldn't give you a dime for New Orleans. It used to be such a great city, but now, it's the murder capital of the country. I graduated from high school there, when it was safe. Now, I'd wear a bullet proof vest. Crime is rampant, as it is in most Democrat run cities. It just gets worse and worse as the years go by. Lafayette is much safer, and the food is much, much better!

Lots to do in Lafayette!

New orleans is much like other big cities ....Lafayette is real Louisiana

Thank you, R M!!! :)

I agree!

Thanks, Ned!

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip what I find interesting about the comparisons to Australia is in the USA a lot of people don't fence their yards. Here almost everyplace in metro areas are completely fenced. For example our front yard is open, but the sides of the house and rear have 6 foot fences.

Thank you, Dennis!

Thank you for that, Victor!

Thank you for that info, Lorrie! And yes, international travel is in the cards eventually. :)

Also could have been where the help stayed. We have a plantation house a block from my house and it has a little building/room right beside the house which was where their slave roomed. It’s beautiful and a family actually still lives in it.