re: New Orleans could actually be a nice city

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If they could figure out a way to buy up all the ghetto areas which are too close to the tourist areas, the place would explode.

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If you have paid attention since Katrina, you would notice that is exactly what is happening. The projects that used to be behind the French Quarter have been torn down and replaced with "mixed" income housing and something of a zero tolerance policy to property destruction, abandoned cars , etc.

The scum are being pushed to the peripheries like NO East which has become a war zone but it's far enough away from the money so few care