re: Carjackings in New Orleans are the worst in a decade.

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t's funny but Upper Middle and Upper class families would rather stay in NOLA despite all the BS.

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They can afford private school tuition or whatever tutoring or bribing that's necessary to get their kids into Franklin. And most of the Garden district is under one of several special taxing districts to fund additional neighborhood police patrols. This might be the only place in Louisiana where some of the residents qualify as "old money" with generational wealth. They live in neighborhoods where their family has been for a hundred years. They can give a shite about the rest of the city so long as their enclave remains insulated.

The middle class families with children have already been squeezed out of places like New Orleans. Even when those families become wealthy over time, they almost never end up in these segregated urban wealthy communities. Their politics and values are completely different. Those types are staying in Lakeview (one of the few areas of its type in NOLA), Metarie or the north shore. New money rarely coexists with old money. Especially in hyper cliquish places like New Orleans that isn't really generating a lot of "new money".

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I don't understand it. I guess ya just have to be from uptown to feel that way

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They aren't really making a huge sacrifice by living there. They've insulated themselves from the rest of New Orleans pretty well.