re: Gambit article: "Is NOLA Worth It?"

I'll keep you posted

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To comfortably afford a 400k plus home while having multiple kids in private school you are going to need 250k household income

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I feel like you should be able to afford a 400k house and 1 kid in private school on 175k income.

But, I also don't see the need to drive a new car every couple years.

Right now I have an opportunity to get a considerable raise just under 6 figures for the first time ever and I'm debating leaving it on the table because I don't feel like temporarily relocating to Houston.... being single with zero kids, you can live pretty damn good in Nola on peanuts

Looks like I will..... :/ ...... pretty much a 100% raise

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Yep, you still see this when you meet someone else from Nola in another place. They always ask the same question "What school did you go to?"

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Answer "Country Day" and you're in like Flynn baw.

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Right now I have an opportunity to get a considerable raise just under 6 figures for the first time ever and I'm debating leaving it on the table because I don't feel like temporarily relocating to Houston.... being single with zero kids, you can live pretty damn good in Nola on peanuts

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You can do a lot more in Houston with that much.

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Hmm using my numbers when I owned a home Uptown from 2014-2016 I don't agree with your definition of stretched thin.

The home was purchased for 325k at 1600 sq ft though.

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If a family of 4 is stretched thin making 175k then the wife is hiding money on the side.

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Yeah the history is interesting and sad for New Orleans.

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Nola's insular ruling elite, who view anyone as an outsider whose grandparents didn't grow up in the right neighborhood or go to the right schools.


Yep, you still see this when you meet someone else from Nola in another place. They always ask the same question

"What school did you go to?"

And then they automatically put you in a category from your answer. It's permeated into the culture.

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While that is certainly inevitable, i think you all are exaggerating the influence of that 'ruling elite.' That said elite couldn't keep Landrieu from bulldozing through them and removing the statues. It may be hard to break into the uptown society if you are an outsider with no connections, but that's not keeping people from moving to Nola. There has definitely been a big uptick in college graduates and younger professionals relocating to nola post-K to work in things like education and the tech/entrepreneurial sphere (although the latter is nowhere close to strong as the city hypes it to be). Most of them couldnt give two shits about that insularity. The city has a lot more to offer socially, recreationally, culturally etc than it did before the storm. So yea while that social set may exist, the city is expanding well beyond uptown. If anything is inhibiting more economic progress it is city hall corruption and cronyism, as well as crime, schools etc that keeps companies away.