re: "Covington like up-town New Orleans without the gun-fire"

I never feel on display across the lake. Never. I'm sure there are judgmental assholes there as well, but I think they see enough people from different backgrounds and whatnot that nothing really phases them. Or maybe they're just better at hiding it.

I told this to my SO the other day. I went to a more affluent church when I was growing up. We were not poor, but we also weren't well off. As I got older, I noticed church was less about mass and more about what people were wearing and parish gossip. When you'd go down the line for communion, you could feel people judging your outfit or hair or whatever the whole way down. And then the ladies would hang out after church discussing. Like, "OMG, did you see so-and-so....?" I didn't really notice it much until I was a teenager and wanted to do different things or wear different things. And I'm not talking anything crazy. It just left such a bad taste in my mouth. That's how the NS feels to me on any given day. It's Easter Sunday, and I'm the girl in the dress everyone thinks is ugly. My SO is from here, and when I told him that he just said, "Nailed it."

Have you tried St. Timothy's?

We're Catholic and our daughter was baptised at OLOL, but really prefer going there now.


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Well, FWIW- St. Timothy's is very nice and has a couple of different services. The contemporary service is alot more music and singing (with of course, a contemporary band and music) while the traditional service has a much longer sermon.

Alot of great activities through the year and so far, everyone we have met has been very nice.

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How can you disagree?

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Because a very, very small portion of downtown Covington is walkable. Just about everyone is living amongst the sprawl in places like Tchefuncte CC, Covington CC, Barker's Corner, etc, etc... None of those subdivisions are remotely walkable.

Pretty much everything in Uptown is walkable or can be quickly accessed by bike. Hell, I can get downtown in 15 minutes riding up Camp Street. Most people can walk to Magazine. Riding a bike down 190 towards downtown Covington would probably get you killed.

Not hating on Covington, just saying its not like Uptown really much at all except for a few blocks

Nola is just much more live and let live than the NS.

When you sell a house uptown, the listing says "near the parade route!"

When you live near a parade on the NS you complain and put sticks in your yard so no one an park there. And you certainly don't advertise it in a listing.

Different strokes. People move to the NS to get away from it all. It's not just crime.

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If he is telling the truth, the store owner quoted someone else who was complimenting Covington.

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Ha, if you know Pat, you know he's not lying simply because he'd have no problem saying it himself (or much worse things) if it was his thought. At the same time,

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If someone finds it offensive because it comes on the heels of another year where violent crimes in NOLA is on the ride I'm sure the owner would offer an apology by saying "I'm sorry you find it offensive"

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Yeah, if you know Pat, that ain't happening. He's cut from a different cloth, not mean-spirited but also doesn't live in the world of the easily offended or have any use for those types.

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You are afraid to live uptown or in lakeview b/c it is dangerous

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In all honesty I would not feel safe living uptown. I would not be comfortable in my own home.

I don't see how anyone could disagree that if you are in New Orleans you can't depend on city services at all. Need police? Too bad, NOPD is holding calls. Need electricity or water? Too bad, the city's infrastructure is well past aged.

I can afford to build a very nice home in Lakeview. I really like the idea of Lakeview and being able to walk to Harrison Ave to eat, etc. Great planning and this is the way that neighborhoods should be. However I would never, ever put the amount of money that people are in to a house there because the roads are beyond the worst and the city services are terrible.

Alright, I'll give you that, the smallish, true downtown Covington resembles Uptown Nola to a degree.

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Nola is just much more live and let live than the NS.

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Really?

Everyone on the Eastbank rags on the Westbank. Metairie people rag on Kenner. Uptown and Gentilly people rag on Lakeview. If you're not in Orleans Parish, to many you don't live in NOLA, and that includes Algiers. Like there is some magic that happens once you cross the 17th street canal.

Don't give me this "NOLA loves all" kum ba yah BS.