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re: Newspaper vet folds, moves to Houston: "New Orleans has become a hard city to grow old in"
Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:30 pm to OogumBoogum
Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:30 pm to OogumBoogum
I know the feeling Bruce, moved to Texas a month ago and it’s been such a fantastic change. A city with functioning services, next to no crime, and just the ability to relax without the stress of living in Nola has made life a lot better. Couple in the lower cost of living with no state income tax, why anyone stays in Nola or Louisiana is beyond me.
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Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:35 pm to lionward2014
I can't speak to NOLA, but it's a weird phenomenon to me when people are scared to move even if it means a better quality of life. Unless you're a native American, at some point your family relocated to the US from wherever they came from to make a better life. But some people today are afraid to move a few hundred miles.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:36 pm to OogumBoogum
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I’ve come to see modern Houston as a mirror-image of old New Orleans.
Which old New Orleans? I moved to Houston from New Orleans almost 45 years ago. It was clear back then that NOLA and Houston were moving in nearly opposite directions.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:39 pm to OogumBoogum
Thanks for posting-it's a good letter.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:39 pm to OogumBoogum
You know, before we moved out here I was worried - slightly sad even. I really thought I was going to miss New Orleans. The bars, the restaurants, the Saints and Pelicans games, seeing family often. Aside from my 4 years in the Army and living in Georgia, that place was all I'd ever known.
Fast forward 15 months and, in simple terms: frick New Orleans and Louisiana in general. I don't miss it at all. To anyone who's thinking of making the jump, just do it. Your quality of life will skyrocket when you have good public services, less crime, clean public spaces, good public schools, smooth roads. I could go on but life is really better just about anywhere else.
Fast forward 15 months and, in simple terms: frick New Orleans and Louisiana in general. I don't miss it at all. To anyone who's thinking of making the jump, just do it. Your quality of life will skyrocket when you have good public services, less crime, clean public spaces, good public schools, smooth roads. I could go on but life is really better just about anywhere else.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 11:47 pm to OogumBoogum
New Orleans Is a Dying Whore. I should get out of here but too dumb to do so.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 12:27 am to OogumBoogum
Some parts of memorial have the generational bonds he is talking about. Many in that area went to memorial high 50 years ago or more and they still live in the area as do their children.
This is well written, I know the feeling. But, when it’s time to go, you know it’s time to go. There is no denying it.
This is well written, I know the feeling. But, when it’s time to go, you know it’s time to go. There is no denying it.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 12:30 am to El Segundo Guy
Good point. I think it Nola makes people lazy, even productive people become lazy, booze filled bums if they stick around long enough.
Maybe the Aggies will take it over, plenty of gays around.
Maybe the Aggies will take it over, plenty of gays around.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 1:13 am to OogumBoogum
For those who saw the length of the post and didn't read it, you're missing out.
This is beautifully written and almost poetic. His comparison of Katrina almost killing the city overnight to the frog being slowly boiled alive is chilling.
This is beautifully written and almost poetic. His comparison of Katrina almost killing the city overnight to the frog being slowly boiled alive is chilling.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 1:21 am to OogumBoogum
These types of open letters are so cringe. People used to gush over Benjamin Watson's similar opuses about religious things. 
Posted on 7/24/23 at 5:40 am to NIH
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could’ve said this was written in 1978 and it would be just as believable
It was said in 78
LINK
July 78
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New Orleans: I Have Seen the Future, and It's Houston
For many who love New Orleans, the changes that accompany commercial growth inspire fear—but in the meantime the city's economy stagnates and its population declines
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For the past century or so, New Orleans has been a city that has gotten by on charm alone. Very few people here seriously consider New Orleans part of the "New South" or of the "Sunbelt" or of any other geoeconomic entity conjured up in the past two decades. And, until a few years ago, hardly anyone in New Orleans minded being left out. New Orleans might be poor, but it is happy. In fact, during last year's mayoral race, one of the candidates ran TV commercials that showed a bustling skyline with a voiceover ominously intoning, "Do you want New Orleans to become another Houston?"
Posted on 7/24/23 at 5:46 am to OogumBoogum
I can sum this up in two sentences.
He voted for this and he don’t like the outcome.
He is now moving elsewhere after people like him caused the problem.
He voted for this and he don’t like the outcome.
He is now moving elsewhere after people like him caused the problem.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 5:55 am to Rouge
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Too afraid to say that the elites in Audobon Park and Uptown have allowed the city government to ruin the City for their monetary gain?
Always had issues.
Biggest problem was it got colonized by white hipsters from California.
Even Morial could pick up garbage twice a week and pump water out of the streets.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 6:05 am to Willie Stroker
And all these years, I thought “confederacy of Dunces” was fiction.
That had to be hard for him to write and harder still to hit send.
If destroya could read, I’m sure she would try to refute it. Sadly, it’s true.
Godspeed.
That had to be hard for him to write and harder still to hit send.
If destroya could read, I’m sure she would try to refute it. Sadly, it’s true.
Godspeed.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 6:14 am to Northshoretiger87
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TLDR “the destroya sucks, Nola is a shite hole, and I’m leaving after having voted for this to happen the past thirty years.”
Bingo.
Every thread bitching about her, I remember they voted for this. Twice.
The city needs to fail. The residents need to flee. It’s the only possibility that they may eventually learn their lessons.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 6:15 am to The Levee
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Another long-winded Democrat leaves Orleans Parish after effectively ruining it for two decades.
They are locusts.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 6:29 am to elprez00
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Every thread bitching about her, I remember they voted for this. Twice.
They voted for this twice and the editorial board of TP or Nola.com endorsed her twice. Those that stay with the pandemic fueled property value increases are simply dumb.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 6:30 am to Meauxjeaux
quote:While true, after that fiasco happened, they came up with a better plan to ensure something like that doesn’t happen again. New Orleans would just keep doing the same thing.
This idiot is leaving NOLA because evacuating is too tough and he chooses Houston?
Member the gridlocked highways and the bus fires? I member.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 6:31 am to OogumBoogum
My father lives in Lakeview right behind the levee,never flooded for Katrina, and his homeowners insurance just went up 7000 a year.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 6:31 am to OogumBoogum
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After 75 years living here, bearing the full cargo of memory and blood that comes with it, today I’m leaving for good – reluctantly, but with firm intent, for…. Houston.
Frying pan, meet fire.
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