re: The Gentrification of New Orleans

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It is better than when you grew up. Much better.

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Sorry, poor wording on my part. It was awesome when I was a kid. It got much worse when I was an adult. But, I still love my city of NOLA..

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LaToya Cantrell's thoughts on the issue was that, basically, don't come into a black neighborhood and complain about the kids playing horns in the streets. In other words, if you're white and you move into a neighborhood that's not currently all-white, disturbing the peace and noise ordinances don't apply. Don't be coming in here with all your laws and civil expectations and stuff.

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Whats wrong with assimilating to the norms of a neighborhood? Especially if they have to assimilate to our societal norms?

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It was awesome when I was a kid. It got much worse when I was an adult

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Late 80's and early 90's the entire city was a true warzone. It is nothing close now and those without a decent income are going to be forced to The East, the West Bank or even St Bernard for affordable housing. Thousands of health care related jobs are coming and housing needs close to those areas are going to force people out.

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Things are better since my old arse 50 year old person has been alive.

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That's kind of silly, no? I'm all for what's happening in NOLA but the city is no where near the southern powerhouse it was until the bust. I read a stat the other day that the Metro area is still down 1,600 businesses from 2005. That's a huge number still, and even bigger when you consider a good number of big publicly traded companies left.

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I never go to Bourbon St. When I go to New Orleans its to see family or do business and as soon as I'm done with that I leave and come back home.

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Good. Next time just make a phone call. We don't want you and your piss poor attitude to ruin our culture anyway

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Whats wrong with assimilating to the norms of a neighborhood?

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I don't know if your question is sarcasm or not. In case it's not......

My point was the city coucilperson's overriding attitude that people who, in essence, improve a block/neighborhood should accept and expect behavior that wouldn't be tolerated in other cities or in other parts of the city. She cleverly disguised it by referring to it in the terms of an innocent boy tooting his horn at night and using the dreaded term "culture." When the real issues in poor neighborhoods have more to do with nefarious activity and general lawlessness. She was saying that white people would be wrong to expect or demand people to generally have good behavior. That to be black in New Orleans MEANS to engage in activities that others wouldn't approve of or understand. And that those activities, no matter how innocent or not, should be protected ethically.

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and even bigger when you consider a good number of big publicly traded companies left.

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Is there any sort of list or article that contains a summary of which companies left? I'm sure they left for Houston

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NOLA has white folk moving in and new restaurants and bars but the city in 2015 does not carry near the same economic or national importance that it did until the oil bust in the 80s. New bars and restaurants are great but murder rates that make national news, water boil advisories, bad suburban schools, horrid public schools, etc will scare away a lot of possible development.

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The loud but ignorant fcks fought it like crazy and probably hurt the final product, but I'm glad it's moving forward.

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The riverfront developments that are proposed are pretty promising, not sure what actually gets done.

I know Algiers is banding together to fight their waterfront developing now.

Tourism is great but it is not going to bring back the white collar jobs New Orleans needs.