re: WWL: Residents decide to flee or fight for New Orleans

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My calculation is now 191

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And that number is minuscule compared with the 1990s ... People are blowing this so much out of proportion it's not even funny

What a massive shithole.

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Continue to ignore the shittiness that is taking over your city.

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This would imply that the city had little crime in the past, as well as a functioning government and court system, good roads outside of parts of Carrollton and Claiborne, and a decent public school system. That's simply not the case.

New Orleans has significant problems, and I can see why it is unlivable for many people. However, acting as if this is a new phenomenon is absurd.

It's certainly more livable now than 15-25 years ago, and with the post-Katrina arrival of hipsters and somewhat affluent individuals from the Northeast, there are some more tenable solutions to education now than in the past.

I mean Lycee Francais, the International Schools, Bricolage, and the charter schools like Lusher and Audobon at least give some alternative to Newman/Catholic schools/living in the Northshore, which wasn't present a dozen years ago.

How do you know the NOPD is reporting all the murders?

Also the level of murders is down, but there seems to be an uptick in armed robberies. Further, I'm sure the outright randomness of the crimes is what has people on edge. Going out to eat or going to a show in New Orleans has become a risky proposition due to random crimes. It would be mitigated by actually having a good infrastructure, good schools, and actually feeling like you are getting something for all the taxes you pay to live in the city. But the citizens get no return on the money they give to the city, and have a government that is doing nothing about improving the welfare of its residents.

I didn't know murder was the only crime that affects people?

It seems like they are getting a good number of people from other cities. If you go to the Marigny it seems like almost no one is even originally from a Southern state. Lots of Northern transplants, almost all 25-35. However, if they only stay for a few years, then there isn't a solution to your question. I guess a lot depends on what happens with those people and what they decide to do. The easiest way to get them to stay is to have decent public schools.

I do know that Tulane and Loyola Law have way higher percentages of people staying in-state than in the past. However, that number (50-60 more people per year) is a drop in the bucket.

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One of the big problems they face is as the baby boomers with good jobs and $$ die off, who is replacing them?

Is there an influx of graduates moving to town for better careers?

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No. People are going to pretend there is because of all the hipsters moving in. But there is very little in terms of growing or sustainable industry in the city to entice and keep younger people pursuing professional careers there. The preponderance of jobs are in the service industry, which depresses wages. Meanwhile, professional careers such as law are inhibited by an incestuous culture already embedded in the existing landscape, while the economy itself imposes artificial limitations on the level of work that can be done in those careers.

Did you move out of state? Or go somewhere nearby?

I think in the past a lot of people who didn't move out of state but thought the same way as you moved to the Northshore. However, all Millennial data up to this point shows a strong aversion to lengthy commutes, across the country.

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People are blowing this so much out of proportion it's not even funny

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sorry,you are in denial but correct in stating that it is not funny.