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

I'm A Who Dat

With pride guys!

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Shell still occupies 18 floors of One Shell Square and still has 1500 employees employed in New Orleans

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ton of in house vendors working BD as well in the Square and next door

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There are plenty of affordable places to live in and around the city

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And one look at a crime map will steer anyone away.

Main reason wife and i rented on metairie for our four years there.

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Lakeview is affordable so is Algiers. Mid City is also affordable. If you cant find anything in the City Limits,go to Gretna or Metairie. Plenty of affordable housing in the area

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Or Mandeville or Slidell or Laplace or wherever else Chalmette etc.....

You are correct that a new kid out of college moving here will not be able to afford a house in the heart of uptown. But no shite that's the case.

It can take you an hour or more to get from one side of Houston to the other. Or across Atlanta.

You can commute from Mandeville to New Orleans faster than someone commutes from their house in Atlanta to their job in Atlanta.

It's too bad New Orleans east is a section 8 crime ridden shithole, because there is so much land out there that could be developed.

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i think the issue that will always hold Nola back (and make it "not worth it" to many) is that the allure of Nola is, essentially, all based in dysfunction

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I just stumbled upon this From The Atlantic in July 1978. This article could have been written yesterday.

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New Orleans: I Have Seen the Future, and It's Houston

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For the past century or so, New Orleans has been a city that has gotten by on charm alone. Very few people here seriously consider New Orleans part of the "New South" or of the "Sunbelt" or of any other geoeconomic entity conjured up in the past two decades. And, until a few years ago, hardly anyone in New Orleans minded being left out. New Orleans might be poor, but it is happy. In fact, during last year's mayoral race, one of the candidates ran TV commercials that showed a bustling skyline with a voiceover ominously intoning, "Do you want New Orleans to become another Houston?"

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It wasn't until 1975, when James Bobo, a University of New Orleans professor, published a highly critical report on the state of the local economy, that the public began to pay attention to what was going on. Bobo's report was entitled "Pro Bono Publico?"—a play on the motto of the most prominent Mardi Gras parading club, the Krewe of Rex, whose members are the sort of civic leaders that Bobo blamed for the city's stagnation. Bobo's thesis was simple: New Orleans had lost its industrial base. Manufacturing jobs were declining year by year, with the slack taken up by lower-paying, less stable jobs in service industries, mainly tourism. The steady fall of the economy had taken place with the acquiescence, if not the blessing, of the city's political and business leaders, who tended to like things the way they were and who probably feared the kind of social change that more industry would bring.

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The politicians, businessmen, and socialites who run New Orleans have through the years practiced their own brand of benign neglect. And the neglect—at least until recently—really has been quite benign. New Orleans, despite its tropical fecundity and its pervasive sense of impending violence (storms approaching from the Gulf, a murder rate about twice as high as the national average, as well as a major proportion of disasters highrise fires, mass lynchings, yellow fever epidemics, ferry sinkings, snipers, race riots, and hurricanes), has always been an easy city to live in—even if you're poor.

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The Superdome did not, however, turn out to be the greatest building in the history of man, or even the second greatest. It was beset with cost overruns and political scandals. Voters in 1966 were told that the Superdome would cost $35 million, the same as Houston's Astrodome, which it would dwarf; instead, the final figure was $165 million. The Dome was supposed to make an operating profit its first year; instead, it has shown a large deficit for each of its three years of operation, and no one today seriously thinks the Dome will ever come close to paying for itself. Last year's operating loss was $5.5 million, not including debt service, which runs to $10 million a year. In fact, the Dome costs $50,000 a day to keep open—whether it is used or not.

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The style of these nonnatives dos not seem to mesh with that of the dean of Carnival society—men such a Richard Freeman, who owns the local Coca-Cola franchise, and Darwin Fenner, as in Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith—so they aren't accepted into the inner circle. This sort of exclusion is practiced on a smaller scale every day in New Orleans, and it is cited by members of the city's Economic Development Council as a major deterrent bringing new businesses into the city

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While Mayor Landrieu spent most of his time trying to improve race relations, seeking money from Washington, and making a name for himself nationally, Morial soon after election addressed himself to the city's severe economic problems.

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High real estate prices coupled with a bad job market is a bubble waiting to burst

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Home prices are down in NO for 2017.

Nola.com

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You should put in an offer

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I was thinking you would...

Way too big for one person.

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Pretty sure there are 5 Jobs in New Orleans...

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Thief
Community organizer
Rapper
Gutter punk
Whore

I don't know if it's that bad. If I was single, had no kids and was seriously addicted to heroin, I'd consider living there.

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It can take you an hour or more to get from one side of Houston to the other. Or across Atlanta.

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That really depends on where you are and where you are going. I do 20 miles to and from work, I have to pass at least 3 wrecks for it to be an hour. My commute is against the flow but I still drive past downtown. So it's not like I drive to Katy in the mornings and back in the evenings.

Door to Door, Covington to New Orleans is an hour on a Saturday in the best conditions.