re: I'm starting to sour on NOLA...

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Nola can and should do more to address the structural problems we all acknowledge exist, but I think you can do that without turning into another cookie cutter corporate playground

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but the problem is that unless you provide that economic opportunity and build the top-level of your city's economy (while pushing the underclass away), those structural issues will never be solved (and likely get worse as the stagnant/backwards economy will cause companies to leave)

how else can you ever get the underclass to leave or at least re-set the population so that if it doesn't leave, it has little impact on your economy and political system? this is part of the bigger issue why LA is doomed as a state. we have catered to the underclass so much that they basically rule by the mob and prevent any real development

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Nola can and should do more to address the structural problems we all acknowledge exist, but I think you can do that without turning into another cookie cutter corporate playground

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indeed, there are clearly issues that i am not too optimistic about ever being properly addressed

but i certainly enjoy the charm of nola and the uniqueness from the small city feel.