re: Tell Me About Chalmette

It moved to Slidell.

Some moved to the Picayune area. Cultcha shock for those Mississipians..

I actually live in St. Bernard, and I'll follow along.

Good:
School system is Top 10 in the state. Chalmette HS is an A school with some of the best facilities in the state (Thanks FEMA!) If you are in the Davies ES / Trist MS pattern, you will never have to spend a dime in tuition

Docville

Food - Several great local places. Everyone knows Rocky's, but also places like Crave, Brewsters (A poor man's POC burger), MeMe's, Arabi Food Store, etc

Plus, two of the greatest local deli/meat shops you will ever see - Tag's (home of $3.99 chisesi ham) and Jeanfreau's

If you like fishing and hunting, amazing opportunities 15 minutes from your house

Some of the people are the best hard working down to earth people you will ever meet.

There are plenty of slightly chubby girls with very nice curves.

The Bad:

Some of the people are the biggest white trash you will ever meet.

We must lead the country in food stamps per white person and cigarette purchases per white person. I don't think the Surgeon General's Warning ever made it this far down river.

There are only about 3-4 neighborhoods with decent housing stock, although that is getting better with new construction here and there, and the revitalization of Old Arabi.

The Ugly:

We are not being taken over by thugs and druggies, but there is a drug problem here. It's the cheap drugs - pills, crack, etc. However, it is easily avoidable.

The only ways here are the ferry through the gutter of Algiers, through the 9th ward, and way around via the east

The shopping here is rough. You have some cool local shops, otherwise it's a few grocery stores, WalMart, and about 7,000 family dollar type stores.

The racism among those over age 50 is absolutely horrific.

Pajama pants, visible random tattoos, flip flop slippers, bad hair, cigarettes, oversized looney toon shirts, salt life stickers

I grew up in meraux and recently moved to Metairie. I still go down there a lot for work and the worst thing about it the damn st Claude bridge is ALWAYS up but it's faster to take st Claude then Claiborne.

I still eat down there a lot. Today's ketch seafood had some awesome po boys and Gerald's has great doughnuts and burgers.

There's some awesome new construction houses in arabi that are driving up the property values there. Old arabi is already pretty pricy.

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Tony's

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Was great! But towards the end, they really went downhill. The last three-four times I went there, the food was either undercooked or burnt, nothing was right, etc.

Not a tuna fan so never had that at Brewsters, but you get a burger and a baked potato for less than 8 bucks. And both are solid good.

Shelmet (<- that's how Siri's dumbass spells chalmette ) doesn't need two high schools. They lose enough people to holy cross as it is

Watcha wanna know, bra?

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There's a lot of bullshite in your post but this is the one you need to be called out on. There is no bridge from the 9th into Chalmette. No STB deputy blocked access into the parish after Katrina. In fact, the 3 times I was allowed in to my mom's house we had to go through State police checkpoints with Guardsmen. Stop with the bullshite stories already.

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He must be thinking of Gretna, when the Gretna PD decided it didn't want a horde of people roaming through the area which was mostly deserted. How dare Gretna not welcome the looters.