re: For the first time, I recommended that a friend not come visit NOLA

Meh.

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I've always been a big champion of getting friends and people to come visit, to come be a tourist, to come enjoy New Orleans. I love this city [but] the promise that was post-K New Orleans is just gone. It is truly depressing, but this city really is circling the drain.

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My wife and I have spent the years telling ourselves that we could move back one day, ever since we moved away from NOLA for work and study reasons back in 1984. We are both native-born. We have at times been really homesick. But in more recent years, we have begun to realize that the NOLA we love and loved is really the NOLA of our youth. And that place is no longer there. What is there is a violent, entitled, angry shell of its former self. The quality of life there has gone to hell. Yes I like snowballs. Yes I like poboys. Yes I love crawfish and fried shrimp and seafood. But no, it's not worth it. We can cook that stuff in our kitchen. We can visit on occasion. We have recently both come to the conclusion that upon retirement, we will not move back to the area. And for the first time since we moved, we are both at peace about that.

Ha, yes you are right. But it is not the day to day murders/shootings/stabbings/muggings.

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But Chicago the crime is really really confined. Here it has really bled over.

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Because years ago, NOLA had this great idea of putting housing projects within walking distance of the city's biggest tourist attraction (FQ). Ended up causing existing neighborhoods around the projects to deteriorate and the crime in the FQ now is a direct result.

Who would've thought that putting a bunch of housing for section 8/welfare recipients within a short walk of the city's crown jewel of tourism would be a bad idea?

Come for the cultcha, stay because you're murdered. You'll be the one charged.

I mentioned this in another thread. Family is visiting other fam in BR in a few weeks. Wife and I planned to have a night out in NOLA but over the weekend decided we'd rather not. We've seen the city many times, just doesn't seem worth the trouble now.

You encouraged your friend to rot her life away in Metairie ?

I've been pretty harsh on new Orleans but some of you are just big drama queens

It is an outrageously-violent, morally-impoverished city. There are just way too many sociopathic predators walking around looking for victims. Combined with the strident Progressive SJW zealotry there just isn't a reason to visit any longer. I refuse to cultivate any new clients in New Orleans because I don't like going there and have cut off all my business marketing and focused it elsewhere . I've also gone from about 20 social visits a year down to a dozen and now I haven't been in six months. Convention traffic is likewise in the process of plummeting. It's a rational and well-deserved response considering that people have been pleading with leadership for a decade to do something. Factoring in blight, violence and education-It's a third world city now, and all the good food and edgy arts people in the world won't change that. I'm done with it.

I have visited NO 4 times as a tourist and used to recommend it to friends. I made a post on FB the other night after I saw the attack video urging people to stay away. I couldn't believe all of the replies from people who felt the same way. Sad