re: New Orleans is uninhabitable

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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.