re: New Orleans is uninhabitable

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I told my friends- I’m not sure I’ll ever go back.

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Same. I grew up in St. Charles Parish the son of two Yats, so I always felt like a New Orleans native. Spent tons of time in the city both as a kid with relatives in the 70s and as a young adult in the 80s. The times I've been back later as I've gotten older have been worse and worse. And that was before Katrina. Since then? Ugh... Last time my wife and I went about 6 years ago we stayed at The Saint on Canal and a few days later a guy was shot in the face directly outside the hotel in the middle of the day.

It's sad to say, but New Orleans, like tons of other things, is simply gone. I miss it. But me pining for it is just a waste of time. The New Orleans I remember as a kid just does not exist any longer, and there would literally be no way to get it back short of a time machine.

When you watch something like this it's hard to imagine it's the same damn place...

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I grew up about an hour south of New Orleans

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Gulf of Mexico

... I can guaran-damn-tee you ...

these nwo people will never make me starve ...

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New Orleans is a fun town,

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New Orleans is a shitehole

Yeah Liberals are so much fun

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New Orleans is a shitehole

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Come on down STD, I'll send you bus fare.

No thanks. I wouldnt want to hear you whining about Orange Man the entire time

And pretending to be some warrior for Zelensky

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New Orleans is a fun town, conservatives are not fun people

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It's amusing you think this is a Left v Right issue in regards to what New Orleans has become.

Sadly, for decades New Orleans has allowed itself to be treated like the Nation's toilet, where tourism is advertised as if you can come on down to "The Big Easy" and do anything you want and treat the city like crap so that's exactly what people do...but at this point locals have done even worse.

Funny thing is that this isn't a case of talking to people shitting on Seattle or Portland from afar who maybe have never been there and almost certainly never lived there. You're mostly talking to locals who know better. If we're not there now, there are REASONS, and none of them are "because we don't like fun." For frick's sake...we're from Louisiana. Who's more fun than that on average?

So freaking true.

Imagine claiming that you love a city and being perfectly okay with it rotting from the inside out.

Get your shite together NOLA. You don’t have a monopoly on being fun loving.

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Imagine claiming that you love a city and being perfectly okay with it rotting from the inside out.

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Right? What good comes from pretending everything is fine? Who actually benefits from that level of sticking your head in the sand?

Look, I know the city I grew up loving is gone and will never be back. The people that made it that are all long gone, either because they've died of or moved away. Same too for so many of the places I knew and loved. Part of that is normal, part of it isn't. Part of what made New Orleans what it was were the very people that died off and/or got pushed out. When they left, their kids did not replace them there carrying on those traditions.

In their place you've gotten added violence and an influx of outsiders who have no attachment to the city or who treat it like a homeless encampment.

With the right leadership it could potentially come back from the brink, but that place those of us a little older remember is just a memory now. Doesn't mean I'd not prefer it to get better, I just hold no illusion that I'll ever return and be fooled into thinking it's 1980.

There are only a handful of places like that left for me there, oddly enough with the large fountain near the sea lion habitat at Audubon being #1 on the list. It looks nearly identical today as it did when I was a kid, and likely to when my dad was.

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I grew up about an hour south of New Orleans and had first cousins that lived there. I never, ever understood the allure of the city, except perhaps for it’s architecture.
I’ve never really had the urge to visit there, and except for a handful of times, I’ve stayed away.
I can’t imagine it being any less appealing to me than it was then, but it sounds as if it’s a definite no go for me anytime in the future. I still can’t understand how tourist plan a vacation around that place. That’s especially true if they have kids.

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I am saddened by the plight of New Orleans as well, but it really isn't that difficult to understand the allure of New Orleans. Music, food, partying, celebration. People in general really like those things, and New Orleans does it better than most cities in the world.

It does suck that its falling apart. It is unfathomable to me that someone like Latoya Cantrell would be elected to "run" that city. What an absolute travesty what she is doing(and not doing.)