Pineville LA
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8/13/2016
Pineville-Alexandria is a metro area of roughly 75K, which feels smaller than it actually is. The people and relative lack of culture and stores you'd normally find in similar-sized towns make it seem small. I've never been to an area this size without a stand alone Starbucks store, for instance- but Pine/Alex somehow pulls it off! No Waffle House? No problem apparently for Pine/Alex. In fact, Pineville only has 1 cafe type restaurant where you can get breakfast! Everything else is fast food, pizza or Mexican. You look at this area and think how much better it could be- yet it never changes. Then theres the striking abundance of pickup trucks driven by the locals here- almost as if no other type of car has ever been produced! I guess you have to be from here to understand it. Its a pretty nice place to live though, climate is good other than a few hot months, not much traffic, nice and green with trees and grass. So it you can go without much cultural stuff, and likely without many friends, since the locals tend to clan together- its not a bad place. I moved here from a western city of around 2 million, so I like less traffic and noise, and the slower pace. However this area could use a few new industries to come in here to provide jobs for locals and recruited outsiders alike, to get things rolling a little more instead of staying stagnant- which is more or less what the current situation is right now in Alex/Pine.
Brad | Pineville, LA