re: New Orleans is on a death spiral

Cost is what I would focus on

Always wanted to retire in quarter or esplanade .. area
Had researched the area a lot.. but now retired and looking more seriously sorta thinking I would prefer a place that has reasonable safe day walking to coffee shops .. zoo.. and mid day lunch option via streetcar..
would not really be doing the nightlife..

Noticed a few of the mega complexes on st Charles ( closer to interstate) are nice and for some reason prices dropped a lot recently? May just have been a few desperate sellers.. poking around and looking are smaller complexes in old historic buildings .. st Charles and napoleon area.. looking at black pearl area also but sorta off the beaten path ..( more end of magazine street area?)

Any Nola residents want to offer comments and advice.. ?

Need 2 bed 2 bath minimum.. sorta staying away from old wood houses that have been converted.. feel that would be to much maintenance and dirt want a building complex that is more of old school condo feel.

Have taxes gone off the charts… I hear a lot about people leaving and know the Tulane area is suddenly Airbnb restrictions and causing people to sell ?

Warehouse and city area nice but want the st Charles area.. more trees gardens etc

Cool, yes I’m friends with a VP on the sports Foundation and also with someone on the host committee.
How could hotels have not done week.
The new Ceaser hotel was over 5K a night with a three night minimum.
Metairie hotels were sold out. West Bank hotels sold out.
A dirty Motel 6 in Nola East was $600 a night.
I guess I could be wrong is they didn’t hit the food and drink revenue they were looking for, but I doubt that’s the case for most of them.

They just had a fantastic Super Bowl and Mardi Gras. NOLA isn’t going anywhere.

im not plugged into restaurant and bar world whatsoever, but i've read that super bowls aren't as crazy of a boon to many of the local bars and restaurants because super bowl visitors tend to go to the big corporate events and/or stick to downtown... at least compared to something like mardi gras or t swift

also, "super bowl week" isn't what it used to be

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i'd start west of jackson at a minimum

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This is the truth. I drive the Avenue every day.

I read this week that New Orleans is the number one favorite city to visit in the USA. I could never leave. There’s no place as fun and interesting as New Orleans. It booms on weekends.

Airbnb has New Orleans listed as one of the highest rated cities for investors over this same time period. The percent probably has a lot to do with out of state investors buying single and multi-family homes and repurposing them as Airbnb's.

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real mafia running the docks.

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Like my great great grandpa

The numbers we’ve been talking about would be helped by considering St Tammany as part of our area again… how can they be a separate metro area without a decent sized city to anchor it? Is Covington supposed to be that anchor? Hammond might think they’re the anchor but that was already a separate area.

Top 10 U.S. Metro Areas by Percent Growth of Population from 2023 to 2024:

1) Ocala, FL - 428,905 (2024) - 4.0% growth
2) Panama City, FL - 226,221 (2024) - 3.8% growth
3) Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC - 413,391 (2024) - 3.8% growth
4) Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL - 852,878 (2024) - 3.5% growth
5) Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT - 760,531 (2024) - 3.5% growth
6) Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL - 261,608 (2024) - 3.0% growth
7) Port St. Lucie, FL - 556,336 (2024) - 2.9% growth
8) Midland, TX - 183,557 (2024) - 2.8% growth
9) Odessa, TX - 165,450 (2024) - 2.8% growth
10) Spartanburg, SC - 395,934 (2024) - 2.7% growth

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I lived in NOLA in the late 00s, but after public officials got behind a podium and said out loud that statues are "our biggest issue", I laughed and planned my exit. They didn't want me or my tax dollars and made it very clear at that point. I don't care about statues, I care that they thought it was the biggest issue, not crime/economy/taxes/infrastructure, statues.