Buying home in New Orleans area

St Charles

Anywhere other than Orleans Parish. Other than that it is a very broad question.

Quite a few nice neighborhoods on canals in Slidell, but they're all in a sub-optimal school district.

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Do yourself a favor and eliminate Orleans from the list. I live in Mid-City and have been a N.O. resident almost all my life with the exception of 3 years living outside Jackson, Miss.

I'm on my 3rd house and property taxes are getting to stupid levels, shite streets, high crime, auto insurance is nuts with so many others not having it but still driving around in beaters. I'm 68 and the wife is 62 and it costs us $3,300 a year and I'm only carrying liability on my vehicle and full coverage on the wife's car. If you have a teen, or soon to be teen and they start driving, prepareth thy butthole.

Where is your place of work, any school age children, how much are you looking to spend?

It will cost you an extra 5-10k a year to live in Orleans parish than any of the surrounding parishes. Not counting private school. Wasted money in my opinion.

You can make the boat at the house work in any of the surrounding parishes.

If you are young or social, stick close to the city. If settled, the further out the better. If you do not have to commute to the city 4 days a week, north shore becomes more attractive.

Side note: I noticed an unusually large number of active listings in Arabi the other day. Anybody know what’s going on in Arabi?

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but just behind the front line of the house.

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This/\ I have a couple friends with boats that live in Metairie and they park them next to their house in the carport and are visible from the street and not behind the back yard fence.

I've seen the same thing in N.O. but I guess that all depends on the amount of "Karen's" in the neighborhood as to how long that will continue.

SCP—good public schools, decent value on housing, mostly functional local Govt. On the other hand, very limited retail and entertainment options. You are essentially moving to the country—no Thai food, no delivery food besides pizza, a handful of non chain sit down restaurants, very limited grocery shopping. You need to be OK with driving for most things; no SCP communities are walkable.

Local economy dominated by petrochemical multinational corps, so you can’t live here if you don’t like the occasional odd smell, gas flare, or if the thought of RoundUp freaks you out (it is manufactured in Luling).

It really depends on what you are interested in, and your tolerance for city life with its conveniences and headaches v the boredom/relative tranquility of suburban life. I've lived in the University section of Orleans, in Old Metairie, inside the loop in Houston, and now on the Orleans Lakefront. All had their pluses and minuses but for me, where I live now is perfect. There are other areas of Orleans where I'd be miserable, and I know I'd be miserable in Mandeville.

Neighbors temporarily keep boats in their driveway in my neighborhood all the time, though it's technically against the neighborhood restrictions. If permanently stored, it would have to be in a garage or behind a fence in the driveway behind the front of the house.