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

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It makes a lot of sense. You can abandon New Orleans, or you can support it.

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More of my money goes to New Orleans than anywhere else. However, if it ever reaches the point where I don't think me or my family is safe, I have no qualms about saying sayonara. There's no ideal of a city that's worth my family's safety or worth "fighting" people (maybe figuratively, but certainly not literally) who clearly don't give a damn about such an ideal or me or my family's safety. Knock yourself out if you think otherwise.