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re: Gentrification is real in New Orleans!
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:27 pm to MajorTaylor
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:27 pm to MajorTaylor
Murder isn’t the problem. The problem is a 16 yr old nervously shaking a stolen .45 in your face as you walk to your car.
This post was edited on 12/4/17 at 9:28 pm
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Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:27 pm to tgrbaitn08
He’s adventurous
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:29 pm to biglego
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He’s adventurous
I saw that. I wonder what that means in Alabama.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:30 pm to tgrbaitn08
How long until holly grove gentrifies?
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:30 pm to Lakeboy7
quote:i get it...it's cool to live in nola,but look how close it came to having another Katrina this year.that's not cool.i guess there are a lot of people with more money than sense.
Maybe they see something you dont.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:33 pm to tgrbaitn08
Savage.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:35 pm to MrLSU
Is this the cleaned up areas of Somalia?
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:35 pm to biglego
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For those prices you can live in a lot of nice places where the public schools are good and crime is low.
But there is more to life than just good public schools and low crime.
The prices may be inflated but they still reflect that NOLA has a lot of good to offer and makes for an interesting / unique place to live. You'll hardly find a city more loved by its residents. Most places, places like Baton Rouge, Houston, and Dallas, the people don't really love their city all that much, they just ended up there, and would just as soon live someplace else. 90+% of Americans live in a neighborhood that is just like thousands of other neighborhoods around the U.S. and in a city that isn't significantly remarkable from other cities. Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, Orlando, etc. - the daily lives of people in those cities isn't markedly different from each other. Strip malls, boring cookie-cutter neighborhoods, chain restaurants, traffic- that is their existence.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:35 pm to bigrob385series
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look how close it came to having another Katrina this year
What did I miss? Did the levees almost break again? God dammit George Bush.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:38 pm to pjab
43 years living in NOLA, 3 years living in Baton Rouge.
Only once in my life have I been a victim of crime and that took place when I was living in BR.
BR is just a mini-Atlanta. F that.
Only once in my life have I been a victim of crime and that took place when I was living in BR.
BR is just a mini-Atlanta. F that.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:39 pm to MajorTaylor
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Most places, places like Baton Rouge, Houston, and Dallas, the people don't really love their city all that much,
Pffff I love the frick outta Houston baw!
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:39 pm to bigrob385series
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i get it...it's cool to live in nola,but look how close it came to having another Katrina this year.that's not cool.i guess there are a lot of people with more money than sense.
Honestly, most long-time New Orleanians that I know (keyword long-time) are aware of how fricked up the city is and how irrational it is to live there. It's just that the city means so much to people that they're willing to go down with it. I'm not on that level, but I actually find it admirable in a way.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:48 pm to cahoots
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Honestly, most long-time New Orleanians that I know (keyword long-time) are aware of how fricked up the city is and how irrational it is to live there.
A New Orleans writer compared it to living in a colony on the moon and such a thing making absolutely no sense whatsoever as a result of the danger and the difficulty of such a thing so when you talk to others about what it is like to live on the moon you make it out to be the greatest thing ever. You have to in order to justify the insanity of it.
Honestly, I love it. Coffee and beignets at 3am in City Park, seeing the downtown skyline from the top of the bridge over Bayou St. John, riding the ferry from Algiers at dusk and watching the city lights bounce off the river currents, the sound of the calliope on the Steamboat Natchez, the hum of the streetcar passing by the entrance to Audubon Park as Tulane Students job down the tracks. The city really is romantic as hell.
I know this isn't the place for that sort of post. But there it is, now isn't it?
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:48 pm to The Torch
quote:So you would have good schools, good neighbors, great jobs, and affordable housing, but could you walk to restaurants that were dimly lit with beautiful wood floors, eclectic menus, and single names like Root, Fish, or Farm?
For those prices you could get a 4000 sq foot home in North Texas with little to no crime and the best public schools in the US.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:51 pm to The Torch
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It's Frisco, Plano, Murphy, Allen , McKinney (voted #1 city to live in in the US) etc etc etc
I understand there are 25 Applebees and Chilis in the area. Rumors abound that those cities above also have 45 Italian Garden restaurants too next to the Walmarts.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:54 pm to MajorTaylor
quote:I lived my first 30 years in New Orleans. This is the rationalization that I've heard for decades about why people remain. It's mostly fluff. Many people love the cities they live in. It's not unique to New Orleans and it's silly to think that.
The prices may be inflated but they still reflect that NOLA has a lot of good to offer and makes for an interesting / unique place to live. You'll hardly find a city more loved by its residents. Most places, places like Baton Rouge, Houston, and Dallas, the people don't really love their city all that much, they just ended up there, and would just as soon live someplace else. 90+% of Americans live in a neighborhood that is just like thousands of other neighborhoods around the U.S. and in a city that isn't significantly remarkable from other cities. Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, Orlando, etc. - the daily lives of people in those cities isn't markedly different from each other. Strip malls, boring cookie-cutter neighborhoods, chain restaurants, traffic- that is their existence.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:57 pm to tgrbaitn08
I’m honestly convinced that massive and rapid gentrification might be the only thing that can steer New Orleans in the right direction.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 9:57 pm to cahoots
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Honestly, most long-time New Orleanians that I know (keyword long-time) are aware of how fricked up the city is and how irrational it is to live there. It's just that the city means so much to people that they're willing to go down with it. I'm not on that level, but I actually find it admirable in a way.
Most of the people I know here are people that were born and raised here, went to high school and moved away for college then returned here after college to work, live and raise their family.
The other half are people that moved here to go to Tulane, Loyola or UNO and met a local girl and never left.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 10:04 pm to Jake88
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It's mostly fluff. Many people love the cities they live in. It's not unique to New Orleans and it's silly to think that.
Yeah, but do they love their city enough to risk a murder rate that is one of the highest in the nation and risk living in a place KNOWN to have recently experienced a major natural disaster that destroyed tens of thousands of homes and rendered over a million people homeless overnight and resulted in over half the population of the city proper being homeless for weeks if not months following? Have they personally suffered great loss and tragedy as a result of their love of city yet their love of city endures?
I rest my case.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 10:08 pm to AbitaFan08
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I’m honestly convinced that massive and rapid gentrification might be the only thing that can steer New Orleans in the right direction.
well, that statement evidences that you aren't a New Orleanian.
If you were a New Orleanian the thought of the city "improving" would be a bit off-putting to you if not unwelcome. NOLA ain't NOLA if it ain't dystopian and funked up.
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