rover_985

31. 401(k). Very reliable car is paid off. I'll drive it until the wheels fall off. Rent around 15% of net income. No kids yet, so the goal is to save aggressively while I still can. I'd like to buy, but I'll hold off until housing prices and mortgage rates go down to at least somewhat acceptable levels. The market is already starting to correct in most places.

Many Millennials overlook the fact that older generations are the largest in American history, and their retirement over the coming years creates a ton of opportunity for career/income growth. Those who work hard/smart now will be rewarded.

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So you broke the law and got booted?

Also, you should know by now to get a new license plate after the second ticket.

Also also, they will come around and remove the boot and take it with them. Not sure about your situation exactly, but the city didn't boot you, a contractor did. The contractor will just add the boot to your bill and if you change your license plate it is impossible for them to trace.

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So I broke a parking ordinance and owned up to it. That's not the issue, the threat of an additional $500 fee when there's no one available to accept the boot is the issue.

You're quick to point out how I "broke the law" while also suggesting I skirt that same law by getting new plates.

No one removes the boot for you unless you are "physically incapable of lifting 16 lbs" and are willing to wait up to 2 hours (if you're lucky). Once you pay online, a code is generated and you unlock/remove the boot yourself before returning it to the "city"-owned and staffed lot within x hours.

The contractor boots o/b/o the city, and the section of the Notice re the $500 no-return fee includes citations to city ordinances.

You clearly have to supply your name, address, etc when making a CC payment online. So yes, the city gov't can trace it, even if I change plates/cancel my card.

I got booted yesterday in a *legal spot near my apt in the Warehouse District. Paid the $541 fine and tried to return the boot this morning. Went to both lots listed on the boot notice. The private security guard at the first lot advised no one from the city showed up to work today, and she couldn't accept the boot. She directed me to the second lot. Second lot flat-out said they wouldn't take it, and sent me back to the first. Went back - the guard called the second lot (no answer) then the City (no answer). I called the city myself, explained the situation to deaf ears, and was told I would receive an additional $500 fine if I don't return the boot w/n 24 hours.

Hope this place sinks into the Gulf sooner rather than later.

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but with the city being majority black

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Objectively, some of the worst civil unrest this year occurred in the whitest metros in the US (Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis) — how do you reconcile this?

As someone who lives and works in downtown NOLA, the city’s demographic makeup was definitely on my mind when things began to pop off this summer. I thought for sure they’d burn this B down, only to see for myself that what *LITTLE* “unrest” there actually was came almost exclusively from disgruntled white kids from New Jersey/Connecticut who don’t wear deodorant. These are transient types who leave after 2-3 years. By 2030, they’ll be far from NOLA at some suburban school board meeting in TX loudly opposing gender norms. They’re coming for ya!

The self-loathing white liberal is who you really need to fear, and don’t be so naive to think the decline of cities like NOLA, Chicago, St Louis, Detroit, etc cannot be very quickly be replicated in other American cities. It’s already happening — look around you.

NOLA - imagine being 24 with a nice job and being able to cherry-pick (employed) sluts at a grown-up bar that isn't in Tigerland or a strip mall on Perkins.

TX will be majority Hispanic by the time 2026 census estimates are released.

BAM

Denham/LP is a miserable place & growth there is solely due to white flight. People seem to forget that in 20-30 years, all that cheap tract housing will fill up with the same element that caused them to leave BR in the first place. Everyone will then simply follow developers to yet another former backwater. There is nothing in LP to anchor property value--Bass Pro & cheap chain restaurants won't cut it. Prairieville is better, but still just a "place" on the side of the interstate. Flooding will continue to be an issue in both LP & Ascension in the future.

If you have money, then I'd say the nicer, more established neighborhoods of BR proper (Garden District, Lakes, Southdowns, Highland, etc.) & NOLA (Uptown, Lakeview, + Old Metairie) are the best places to live in La. Otherwise, I'd rank it as:
1. Northshore
2. Lafayette
3. Thibodaux (very underrated, but would only pick if you can afford private schools)
4. The rest of Metairie (ran out of opts in La :rolleyes:)