re: Best Small Towns in Louisiana to Grow Up In

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Uptown, NOLA. It's a very small town or was.

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You're getting downvoted but there's actually a lot of truth in this and I always tell out-of-towners when they come here. A lot of the old neighborhoods in New Orleans feel and live like small towns. Nobody ever comes and goes. The family's go generations back. There's tons of little small businesses nestled in the neighborhood to serve that specific community. Everybody passes down stories of the neighborhood. There's a real connection and pride for each individual neighborhood by the residents there. You can live, work, entertain, eat and die and never leave your neighborhood in New Orleans. I know people that have.

A lot of the neighborhoods in New Orleans kind of organically formed to be self-sustaining. Possibly because it was an immigrant city for a long time being a big port city so each neighborhood kind of wanted their own shite and were culturally isolated though not geographically isolated. That and a lot of these neighborhoods were actually cities that were annexed by the City of New Orleans as it expanded along the river. I noticed a similar build to the city of St Louis. Lot different than more modern cities like Dallas and Houston that were built as developer enclaves.