re: Name your top 5 U.S. Cities to live in

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You can't replicate the culture and vibe. You can't fake it. You can build all the Top Golfs, Buc-ee's, Dave & Buster's, Olive Gardens and hold all the SXSWs that you want. They will never be Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, the FQ or the fried chicken the old black mama makes at the corner store down the street. For fricksake, they can't even get Popeye's right in other States and it's a fricking franchise.


You're doing that thing again where you act like NOLA is the only place with culture and all we have are chains.

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While other cities have their own thing, we grab and own our culture in New Orleans in a unique way. If someone in another large Southern city said everyone meet in the center of town is there one place the overwhelming majority would go? Are there multiple festivals where such a large percentage of the locals attend on at least one day? Are most of the neighborhoods planned or did the grow organically? I agree that a lot of what makes us unique and interesting can be odd to folks who do not get it. We had a major incident that resulted in folks taking out a full page newspaper ad over a waiter getting fired at a restaurant. Folks will nearly brawl over how dark a roux should be. We drive and park like crap. Our streets have built in speed bumps. As for a lot of the bad, that becomes part of the inside joke and culture that some folks just do not want to get.