re: Whats the worst area in New Orleans

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The St Charles-Calliope underpass especially during Mardi Gras

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Definitely drafting this area early in my fantasy city-wide draft now.

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The east has nothing.

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The problem is "The East" is this massive stretch of average nothingness. No jobs, not much retail, no real reason to want to go there, etc.

The East isn't particularly unsafe... it just looks horrible. The East is basically a collection of "Good" Section 8 tenants, who don't destroy their rentals and kill people, but don't have enough money to live anywhere else, and the slum lords know they can let it go to hell.

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I drive around New Orleans most of my day. The most shadiest areas I see are Uptown. The East has crime, but it’s a lot of older people that live there so for the most part it’s peaceful. I’ve never feared for my life in the East like I have Uptown.

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Unless you're going down many blocks on MLK down to Magnolia St., etc., which is basically Central City, I would disagree. Uptown has most of what I feel are the safest areas of New Orleans. I know what you're saying though for the blocks much further away from St. Charles though.

However, Dowman road looks like an a nuclear bomb just hit it. That seems like the best place to possibly get murdered, followed by some other random places in the East, then South Claiborne (downtown) and South Broad (just about anywhere). There are obviously other scary parts though. The East seems the scariest because if something happens, you feel like you're an hour away from any help. You're only a few blocks away from help Uptown or in other spots.

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That area behind the Mickey D’s on Carrollton

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Mickey D's on Canal is the worst. You better order that Quarter Pounder wearing some Kevlar.

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I’ve never feared for my life in the East like I have Uptown.

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Wtf?? The East is like Somalia.

All of it.