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re: New Orleans….in your opinion, when did the wheels come off?
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:26 am to Artificial Ignorance
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:26 am to Artificial Ignorance
Nola is the stripper you bang that wild night. Nothing more. You don’t make a home with the stripper. And you shouldn’t make a home in Nola. You visit, get drunk, piss on her and leave.
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Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:45 am to RedPop4
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Landrieu administration. Moon Landrieu.
I have heard from many old timers throughout the years that Moon started the decline.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:47 am to logjamming
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Happy’s, Boudreaux & Thibodaux’s, Huey’s, Lucy’s etc. were always a great time. There were even a bunch of bars that catered to the white trash crowd coming over the river: Punchers and City Bar
This is what I remember and I was a post-grad. Downtown BTR had the charm of a small city, but the nightlife of a bigger metropolis, during a brief stint. I enjoyed nights out in downtown. Correct me if I am wrong, but they were trying to sell condos downtown that were pretty expensive, after everything dried up. Beautiful spaces, but in a dead and crime ridden area.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:48 am to wfallstiger
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When the Mafia was dismantled. They kept a lid on things - such as crime - and when ousted, into the dumpster
Some days the jokes write themselves.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:49 am to OTIS2
If you are wealthy, New Orleans is the best place in the world to live. Nobody can change my mind.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:56 am to The Pickwick
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If you are wealthy, New Orleans is the best place in the world to live. Nobody can change my mind.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:56 am to OTIS2
After Katrina it got colonized by secular progressives from California.
Pre Katrina, in spite of the problems, at least the Quarter was safe, the garbage got picked up, and the pumps worked. You never would have seen someone like Destroya in the BOLD/SOUL/COUP days and Half Moon didn't even make the runoff in 1994.
Pre Katrina, in spite of the problems, at least the Quarter was safe, the garbage got picked up, and the pumps worked. You never would have seen someone like Destroya in the BOLD/SOUL/COUP days and Half Moon didn't even make the runoff in 1994.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 7:58 am to OTIS2
The wheels never came off, but now the city is like a caricature of itself. It doesn’t feel authentic anymore when you spend $25 on an oyster “poor” boy for lunch and walk past empty homes for sale that were former AirBnBs.
But, the big things still happen. Mardi Gras will never stop. The sound of music can be heard almost anywhere. And if there’s a murder, there’s a 99% chance it’s in New Orleans East.
But, the big things still happen. Mardi Gras will never stop. The sound of music can be heard almost anywhere. And if there’s a murder, there’s a 99% chance it’s in New Orleans East.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:00 am to OTIS2
Always had a patina of skeeve. Slow steady decline since the early 70s that was jumpstarted when the decision was made to cater to the lowest of the low in maintaining it and returning it to a "chocolate city" after Katrina.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:01 am to jwalk38
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walk past empty homes for sale that were former AirBnBs.
Maybe the owner is taking a break after making a fricking fortune during the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras?
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:04 am to Bestbank Tiger
quote:exactly
You never would have seen someone like Destroya in the BOLD/SOUL/COUP days
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:11 am to jwalk38
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It doesn’t feel authentic anymore when you spend $25 on an oyster “poor” boy for lunch
This is your barometer for authenticity? Oysters are expensive dude.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:11 am to OTIS2
Around 1718 - When the French fricked over the Indians.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:12 am to biglego
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Probably the 80s with the oil bust and corporate exodus to Houston began. Plus the white flight to the north shore really started in the 80s
This is the answer. Also the crack epidemic was in full swing too.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:29 am to BigBinBR
New Orleans was a much more dangerous and seedy place in the early 90s. Katrina actually cleaned up a lot of city’s neighborhoods that are now in pretty good shape. See the Freret corridor, Irish Channel, Marigny, Bywater. Even Central City and Treme are improved. It’s a lot of transplants that moved in but it’s better than locals that don’t give a shite about their living conditions.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:36 am to OTIS2
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New Orleans….in your opinion, when did the wheels come off
When everyone started moving to Mandeville/Covington/Madisonville in droves, early to mid 90’s.
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:51 am to Tammany Tom
May 19, 2017
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:55 am to OTIS2
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This post was edited on 5/28/25 at 2:39 am
Posted on 5/4/25 at 8:58 am to saderade
Parts of Nola have improved since Katrina but its frustrating how much potential is being squashed by incompetence and apathy. The place could be so much better if it had a government that did the bare minimum instead of bleeding it dry.
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