re: Why did NOLA expand North and not West?

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Are we seeing the phenomenon of "leakage" (a certain demo seeping out of the city limits into the suburbs) that we see in other metros? Or is the lake preventing that?

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A few things as to why the culcha has not, to date, ruined WEST ST. TAMMANY:

1) the lack of high density housing

2) the lack of public transportation

3) the culcha that works in E. St Tammany (Slidell) tends to work in the service industry in down town NOLA proper. It’s too far to drive to down town NOLA from West St Tammany. The juice not worth the squeeze.

4) thus the Lake is a nice natural barrier from invaders not unlike the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean to our country’s West and East.


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