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re: What Is Your Breaking Point for Doing “Business” in Orleans Parish?
Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:26 am to EOT
Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:26 am to EOT
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I ask myself this everyday. It will mostly likely be when my wife, my kids, or I am caught in the crossfire. I will pack my shite and never look back.
Agreed it really hard that these could actually be happening until it basically slaps you in the face.
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Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:28 am to STEVED00
There’s a Lafcadio Hearn quote that’s applicable here.
New Orleans is eternal. It has its rough spells, and we’re in one now, but we’ll find a way out.
I want to be here and be part of the solution, rather than leave and bitch about how everyone has left and the city isn’t the same.
New Orleans is eternal. It has its rough spells, and we’re in one now, but we’ll find a way out.
I want to be here and be part of the solution, rather than leave and bitch about how everyone has left and the city isn’t the same.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:28 am to STEVED00
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What Is Your Breaking Point for Doing “Business” in Orleans Parish?
Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:32 am to STEVED00
possible spinoff thread: Are you waiting to be a victim of a violent crime to be the catalyst to leave NO or BR? At least once a week I have lunch at my mom's and have to yell at her because she leaves her door unlocked when she knows I'm coming. Nowadays I sometimes pull up expecting to find a crime scene.
This isn't normal. Nobody should feel this way in an American city of any size.
This isn't normal. Nobody should feel this way in an American city of any size.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:41 am to Giantkiller
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possible spinoff thread: Are you waiting to be a victim of a violent crime to be the catalyst to leave NO or BR?
This is a good point. I feel a lot of people just can’t believe this is happening. Watching that video with the car doing donuts with a guy with with a fire arm sticking out of the sun roof during daylight hours (morning commute) was eye opening that something like that could possibly go on for as long as it did uninterrupted by police in the middle of the CBD.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:42 am to STEVED00
I work in the city M-F. I don't give this city 1 cent of any kind of tax income from me. Since this COVID BS started, I've not purchased a god damned thing in the city of New Orleans. Not a candy bar from a vending machine, not a drink at a bar, not gas, nor a pack of gum from the gas station. I come to work and go home.
Wife and I are for sure out of here in 4 months. Sayonara.
Wife and I are for sure out of here in 4 months. Sayonara.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:49 am to Giantkiller
The slight edge BR has over NO at this point is that it is still relatively possible to live in BR and not deal with much crime... so far. We still have at least some parts of town where you're not up close to poor neighborhoods that are spilling over into yours causing crimes.
The majority of Highland from Lee to CCLA is mostly lower crime (a few spots excluded), down Pecue, the neighborhoods off Bluebonnet near Jefferson, some of those nicer streets off Old Hammond near Jefferson, Bocage, etc. A lot of the folks in the neighborhoods off Highland between interstate and Pecue could easily live their whole lives on that side of town and not see much crime. Granted, that costs money.
* I say mostly, because crimes aren't 100% not a thing. Wasn't someone robbed in their front yard in Oak Hills recently?
But it is sounding like this sort of refuge isn't even possible in New Orleans anymore.. in any part of the city.
That said, you see people who live in pricier areas like Capital Heights, Mid City, Garden District dealing with plenty of crime despite paying so much to live there. I used to really want to live in Capital Heights/Garden District (and did rent a home there for a few years), but that is no longer appealing to me despite the charm. They deal with too much petty crime that could potentially become violent in time.
The majority of Highland from Lee to CCLA is mostly lower crime (a few spots excluded), down Pecue, the neighborhoods off Bluebonnet near Jefferson, some of those nicer streets off Old Hammond near Jefferson, Bocage, etc. A lot of the folks in the neighborhoods off Highland between interstate and Pecue could easily live their whole lives on that side of town and not see much crime. Granted, that costs money.
* I say mostly, because crimes aren't 100% not a thing. Wasn't someone robbed in their front yard in Oak Hills recently?
But it is sounding like this sort of refuge isn't even possible in New Orleans anymore.. in any part of the city.
That said, you see people who live in pricier areas like Capital Heights, Mid City, Garden District dealing with plenty of crime despite paying so much to live there. I used to really want to live in Capital Heights/Garden District (and did rent a home there for a few years), but that is no longer appealing to me despite the charm. They deal with too much petty crime that could potentially become violent in time.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:53 am to STEVED00
First year in my entire life I’ve said I have no desire to take my kids uptown to see parades. I’ll stay in Metairie and in the future likely schedule vacations
Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:53 am to member12
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Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:57 am to STEVED00
For me, it was about a year ago. Moved to the exurbs. Didnt mind visiting NO occasionally or having some activity there. Then the vaccine mandate happened (Im vaxxed but not a fan of authoritarianism). Then the building crime wave became a tsunami that hasnt even peaked yet.
Now it is simply a matter of driving to work and back, getting through the few city streets I need to before the I10 entrance.
If I could secure a job on the Northshore or work remotely from home, the only reason I would ever venture to the Southshore would be to visit family in JP. frick Orleans.
Now it is simply a matter of driving to work and back, getting through the few city streets I need to before the I10 entrance.
If I could secure a job on the Northshore or work remotely from home, the only reason I would ever venture to the Southshore would be to visit family in JP. frick Orleans.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 9:58 am to STEVED00
City smells like piss everywhere
Posted on 2/16/22 at 10:06 am to member12
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New Orleans does have an excellent food scene for a city its size. Baton Rouge does too, but New Orleans is on another level entirely...arguably comparable to cities exponentially larger. They better not frick that up too like they did everything else
Don't worry. They will.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 10:08 am to cahoots
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Chevron's office in Covington is there for a reason
Pretty sure they moved that to Houston.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 10:08 am to LouisianaLady
I live in Central and if there is any, I never hear about it or see it. Even when I'm in BR, I stay aware of what's around me, but I feel safe most of the time.
If everybody fleeing NO because of bad policy and crime moved to BR, there would probably be enough of a swing to turn BR government red. Mainly the mayor's office which is most important.
If everybody fleeing NO because of bad policy and crime moved to BR, there would probably be enough of a swing to turn BR government red. Mainly the mayor's office which is most important.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 10:17 am to TSmith
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Right now, the city is victim to the latest leftist crime-fighting ideology.
The city is only victim to its imbecilic electorate that keeps voting in bottom of the barrel leaders. From that, everything else is but a symptom.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 10:19 am to LouisianaLady
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The slight edge BR has over NO at this point is that it is still relatively possible to live in BR and not deal with much crime
What might help preserve the economic viability of Baton Rouge is that people in Central, St. George, and the outlying parts of East Baton Rouge Parish still influence local government.
The entire section of the river between St. James and Baton Rouge is where the bulk of the state's industrial growth will likely happen over the next 30 years. That's right in between the state's two largest cities. So the likelihood of the metro areas sort of combining is pretty high.
The state needs Baton Rouge and New Orleans to both clean up their act around criminal activity, education, and infrastructure though.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 10:19 am to chillygentilly
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There’s a Lafcadio Hearn quote that’s applicable here.
Lafcadio Hearn was an ignorant, unimaginative douche. First of all, anyone who who's not a small minded ignoramus can find a lot of interesting things and culture in Cleveland.
Pretty much anywhere you go in this country has a rich heritage and culture if you do so much as look.
But even further: When Hearn was preaching his small minded bigotry and epitomizing the silly provincialism of New Orleans, the city was actually a cultural gem and economic engine. When he said that in the 1800s, there was actually something to brag about.
The vaunted "culture" of New Orleans is in its death throws if it even lives at all anymore. What exists now is an absurd caricature, combined with manufactured "cultural heritage" crap concocted by the city's PR when it decided to embrace tourism and hospitality over a real economy.
New Orleans is about as eternal as the rotting turd it currently resembles and smells like.
All good things come to an end. And most of what was good about New Orleans died a long time ago. The frustrating thing is that they didnt have to.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 10:20 am to STEVED00
quote:Jesuit is only considered in a "class of it's own" because of the focus they have on test preparation. They are all really close to providing the same real world education, Rummel included
I agree that Jesuit is still in a class of its own but to think BM and HC are closer to Jesuit “educationwise” than Rummel is just off base.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 10:24 am to LSUSkip
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I live in Central and if there is any, I never hear about it or see it. Even when I'm in BR, I stay aware of what's around me, but I feel safe most of the time.
If everybody fleeing NO because of bad policy and crime moved to BR, there would probably be enough of a swing to turn BR government red. Mainly the mayor's office which is most important.
East Baton Rouge doesn't have anywhere near the proportion of judges and district attorneys that refuse to hold people accountable for breaking the law as Orleans parish does.
Baton Rouge sits in a huge parish with developing suburban districts that still care about public safety.
Posted on 2/16/22 at 10:25 am to tigahbruh
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