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re: Newspaper vet folds, moves to Houston: "New Orleans has become a hard city to grow old in"
Posted on 7/24/23 at 6:55 am to OogumBoogum
Posted on 7/24/23 at 6:55 am to OogumBoogum
Now tell is your voting record, Bruce.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:02 am to OogumBoogum
This dude prolly voted for Latoya. And for JBE. And for Jason Williams. Frick these people.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:03 am to johnnyrocket
It’s the typical liberal M.O. What a piece of shite.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:13 am to OogumBoogum
He will probably vote for Sheila Jackson Lee for mayor.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:17 am to OogumBoogum
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So it’s Houston, by choice, where two adult children and spouses,
Old man moves near his kids’ families
/story
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:21 am to LSUdc
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His comparison of Katrina
Stop. Blaming. Katrina. A bunch of that dump arse city scattered, which *should* have made things better, but it was an opportunity for (D)em to double down on stupid racist shite.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:26 am to OogumBoogum
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To sum it up succinctly: "But in the last five years it feels like something has slipped, at least temporarily. A word comes to mind: Detroit."
As someone who has visited both in the last 12 months and with no ties to either I can say if New Orleans doesn’t get their act together very soon Detroit will be the superior place to visit.
They’ve rebuilt their city center to a level that was shocking. Certainly that revitalization is surrounded by a ring of urban decay and crime as is New Orleans.
But to a larger degree it’s also a place where unlike New Orleans if you stick to the gentrified city center you can avoid the crime and enjoy a safe and relaxing weekend.
Detroit in 2023:
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New Orleans has a unique culture, vibe and cuisine, but it’s becoming hidden under a layer of decay that is puts it in company with places like Memphis, Jackson or Baltimore and lacks a corporate base to sustain it if changes aren’t made very quickly to prevent the non-producers from killing the golden goose of tourism.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:29 am to OogumBoogum
He makes has some valid criticisms of the city for sure, but seems like if either of his children still lived in the NOLA area he would have stayed put.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:31 am to El Segundo Guy
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But some people today are afraid to move a few hundred miles.
What is the sum of a life?
Is it taxes? Is it a home? Is it a job? Friends? A family? A church? Hobbies? A neighborhood?
It’s all of those things and more.
When one moves (particularly when they move more than an hour or two’s drive away), there are some things they take with them and some things that are permanently left behind which they must recreate in the place they move to.
Imagine living in the place you grew up. Your parents and siblings and extended family are mostly there, your childhood friends are all there, as are all of the hobbies, social networks and everything else you accumulated as a result of growing up there.
When you move far enough away to no longer access those things on a whim, what do you take with you? Well, if you’re married, you might take the most important members of your family. You will make a new home in the new place with a new job. Some hobbies are easily portable while others will require a little diligence to replicate in your new place with new people. You cannot take your friends or extended family or your social network with you. You have to make new friends and build new networks. You have to shop at new stores with different products available. You have to eat at different restaurants. For some, this is seen as opportunity, but for those who really like their lives where they grew up, it feels more like loss.
Moving for economic opportunities is often a necessity, which is why so many people do take the leap. However, no one ever moves more than a 4 hours drive away without losing some of the things from their life where they used to be. You simply cannot pack up everything you loved about your life and transplant it somewhere new.
For people with deep roots in a community, the costs of uprooting themselves and having to start over from scratch somewhere else often outweighs the economic incentives to relocate. If you really enjoy your life where you’re from, it takes a much bigger carrot or stick to drive you out. Few individuals in Louisiana history have ever wielded a bigger stick than Latoya swings now.
This post was edited on 7/24/23 at 7:34 am
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:35 am to OogumBoogum
Pretty sure Houston hates NOLA. So many transplants there. But seem to be paying us back as it seems every other license plate is from Texas. With an incompetent driver.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:39 am to OogumBoogum
The New Orleans newspapers (and news outlets) are a big part of what is wrong with New Orleans. They refuse to call out the real issues
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:42 am to tigerpimpbot
Bruce and I went to the same church for years. He is a good man.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:45 am to OogumBoogum
I can translate "Progressive" speak for anyone that doesn't want to read that garbage:
"I voted to destroy the city. Mission accomplished. I'm now moving to Houston where I will vote to destroy that city until I die. After I die, I will continue to vote to destroy the country over and over and over in two states now. All thanks to what I voted for my entire life. But it is not MY fault, but the fault of my enemies"
"I voted to destroy the city. Mission accomplished. I'm now moving to Houston where I will vote to destroy that city until I die. After I die, I will continue to vote to destroy the country over and over and over in two states now. All thanks to what I voted for my entire life. But it is not MY fault, but the fault of my enemies"
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:46 am to Draconian Sanctions
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Who the frick going to read all that
I did. Took all of 3-4 minutes. Thought it was well written if it didn’t call out the actual issues plaguing the city.
This post was edited on 7/24/23 at 7:47 am
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:47 am to USMCguy121
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The worst thing about New Orleans is the local culture its people built, of violence, disrespect, laissez faire nonchalance and the street.
Wow…no shat Baw. Well, I’m 99% sure he voted for all the piss poor leaders that enabled it.
He’s obviously running to Houston to be closer to Family, but the Northshore would be a more convenient move. I would be very unhappy in Houston, it’s traffic & sprawl.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:49 am to NoBoDawg
Someone needs to tell that baw he’s moving from NOLA to Houston, not NOLA to Atlantis.
Posted on 7/24/23 at 7:57 am to PrimeTime Money
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New Orleans would just keep doing the same thing.
Like the residents that keep voting the same way in hope that the next time it will be better?
Posted on 7/24/23 at 8:21 am to El Segundo Guy
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Unless you're a native American,
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Posted on 7/24/23 at 8:28 am to OogumBoogum
Didn't really need the long letter, He could have just said he was moving to be closer to his kids, who could take care of him.
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