re: New Orleans is uninhabitable

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There’s no charm left in NOLA. It’s been taken over by hipsters who moved in from somewhere else, and criminals. It’s so sad y’all. I don’t know how it’s possible to live there.

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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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Revelator, my understanding is that you are a devout Evangelical, with strict morals.
If so, I can understand your never seeing the allure of Nola. It was always a decadent, raunchy place. I know Las Vegas got called "sin city", because it's vices were legally mandated and it's why the city was made. It is the commercial, "chain brand" version of sin city.

Nola was more of a naturally evolved 'sin city'. It was that way for centuries, with a European, anything goes party lifestyle. It's decadence wasn't manufactured, it was the result of multiple relaxed cultures merging and thriving outside of a fairly Puritanical/wholesome US influence.

But the thing was, it was always safe to peruse and sightsee, and the temptations were legit tempting. Sure, the preacher would shake his head at it, but going there would jeopardize your soul far more than your life.
Now, whatever charm and temptations were there, are gone. There is no more elegance, just squalor and crime. There's nothing seductive, no danger anymore to your soul. You're not going to be tempted to indulge, like you once were. It's not a glamorous vixen anymore, it's a festered crack ho.

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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.)