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re: Where to live in New Orleans for a young professional?
Posted on 4/15/21 at 9:39 am to kingbob
Posted on 4/15/21 at 9:39 am to kingbob
If you read Richard Campanella's geographical history of New Orleans, Bienville's Dilemma, which is excellent, you will learn that historically everything on the other side of Canal Street was considered uptown.
It was called "uptown" because it was upriver. All of that was built by English speaking Americans who opened up the development of the area in the mid 19th century. Everything going in the other direction was called downtown, and was originally populated by French speaking Creoles who were later joined by Italians, Germans, etc. The FG, Marigny, Bywater (a very unhistoric, recent term) and the 9th ward were "downtown."
Yes, the Garden District is technically uptown from a historic perspective. If you are traveling there from downtown, you are headed uptown. It's not hard.
It was called "uptown" because it was upriver. All of that was built by English speaking Americans who opened up the development of the area in the mid 19th century. Everything going in the other direction was called downtown, and was originally populated by French speaking Creoles who were later joined by Italians, Germans, etc. The FG, Marigny, Bywater (a very unhistoric, recent term) and the 9th ward were "downtown."
Yes, the Garden District is technically uptown from a historic perspective. If you are traveling there from downtown, you are headed uptown. It's not hard.
This post was edited on 4/15/21 at 9:41 am
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Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:11 am to Slippy
But we all digress. The OP’s daughter is about to start her career in one of the great cities in the world. Embrace it. Live anywhere in big U uptown or midcity. Ohh, and get secured off street parking if possible.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:20 am to kingbob
I would suggest the Broadmoor area off of Jefferson Avenue and Nashville area adjacent to the Freret street scene. Cool places for young professionals to hang out
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:22 am to saderade
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Breaking into vehicles? Yes. Anything beyond this is pretty rare. Especially compared to the rest of the city. It’s the safest area of the city.
Agreed. The car break ins have really skyrocketed over the last 3-4 years, though.
Posted on 4/16/21 at 1:39 pm to tankyank13
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Down there by ya people, in Gramercy.
That's a Gramercy exit. They don't count
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