re: Mobile and the MS Gulf Coast should be a part of Louisiana.

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Mobile, AL is the worst city, if you can call it that, I've ever visited. And I include Baldwin County in that assessment.

The Grand Hotel is a joke of a resort. Essentially a Holiday Inn on a setting equivalent to the shore of Lake Pontchartrain with daily cannon firings, free bike rentals (if you call that 15% resort fee on a $500 nightly room rate free), and terrible Alabama styled seafood at their inhouse restaurants.

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All this coming from the same dufus who said New Orleans has a better St. Patrick's Day than Chicago.

You fancy yourself a sorta low rent John Kennedy Toole and it's obvious Mobile threatens this chronic New Orleans fetish of yours. You attack Mobile every time the subject arises. I mean I'm cool with it and all but it's obvious you've got some hang ups when in comes to Lower Alabama.

Well I've lived in both cities and Mobile really is nothing more than a smaller, cleaner, more conservative version of New Orleans. A version that's also one hour away from white sanded gulf beaches. This is probably what threatens your sensibilities so much. Mobile has Gulf Shores and Orange Beach. What does New Orleans have? Your memories of a fairly shitty Lake Pontchartrain.

In some ways, Mobile does New Orleans better than New Orleans does New Orleans.

I mean Christ, by any standard New Orleans is a pile 'a shite. By the Mobile standard, New Orleans is an underdeveloped, 3rd World country.