re: U.S. News 2017 Best Places to Live - #63 Baton Rouge #95 New Orleans

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I could live anywhere in the world, I choose to live in New Orleans.

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Personal feelings about a place aren't measured. New Orleans is outranked by Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Austin, and even Scranton, PA because it represents a poor value to outsiders. That's addressed in the article:

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New Orleans is a metro region where it seems like everyone knows everyone; the area has one of the highest percentages (73.2 percent) of "homegrown" residents in the country. The population of New Orleans has risen steadily in recent years, nearly returning to pre-Hurricane Katrina numbers.

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The city is full of people who don't want to move to a new, different city. The parochialism there is actually a huge drawback to outsiders. Of course the job market is horrible and the city is not the economic engine the state needs it to be.

New Orleans may do well with the intangible things to the people that grew up there (food, family, friends, etc), but it fails miserably everywhere else.