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Harold
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| re: Lower 9th Ward For Life - 7/25/2006 - 5/29/2009
My feeling is if you don't have the money to live in the type of niegborhood you like,don't have a job you like, don't have the home life and self content you want, no city will please you. I think not being able to earn enough money is a large problem for a lot of people in NOLA. i haven't live there in 15 yrs.Not many cities have a downtown and french quarter type places to stroll, most of the year, if you are bored. The city has a lake front, a large river front, but nice nieghborhood parks and basketball gyms are too scarce. I guess it just depends on your pocketbook power and also your experiences help to evaluate a prospective place . I've live in Chicago, it has bigger hoods and bigger crime in the bigger hoods;also it has bigger nice neighborhoods too.If you can afford it.Same with NOLA, if you can afford it you can have a decent life there.i think it is a nice place to retire. Correct me if I'm wrong haven't lived there in 15 years.
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Harold
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| re: Lower 9th Ward For Life - 7/25/2006 - 5/29/2009
My feeling is if you don't have the money to live in the type of niegborhood you like,don't have a job you like, don't have the home life and self content you want, no city will please you. I think not being able to earn enough money is a large problem for a lot of people in NOLA. i haven't live there in 15 yrs.Not many cities have a downtown and french quarter type places to stroll, most of the year, if you are bored. The city has a lake front, a large river front, but nice nieghborhood parks and basketball gyms are too scarce. I guess it just depends on your pocketbook power and also your experiences help to evaluate a prospective place . I've live in Chicago, it has bigger hoods and bigger crime in the bigger hoods;also it has bigger nice neighborhoods too.If you can afford it.Same with NOLA, if you can afford it you can have a decent life there.i think it is a nice place to retire. Correct me if I'm wrong haven't lived there in 15 years.
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Lorraine
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| re: Lower 9th Ward For Life - 7/25/2006 - 5/1/2008
I hope you're right Derek. I've been there twice, once for the Jazz Fest 2005. I LOVE it. If I had the money to restore one of those mansions in the Garden District, I would do it tomorrow!
A single woman, I was hesitant to go to Bourbon Street alone, but I did. I was fortunate to meet a gentleman that shared the entire evening with me visiting almost every bar and taking in the sounds and the excitement. What an inspiring place to be for the soul! I was hearbroken when I saw what Katrina did and learned the selfish reasons why. New Oleans has my heart and always will. I wanted to do the Jazz Fest this weekend, but circumstances didn't allow me. Once again, I hope the ambience and magic of that town stays alive as well as the quaintness it once possessed. The vagrants that cause the crime should only know how they rape and scar the beauty of that town. One must learn to see the forest for the trees.
"How like a dream is this I see and hear!" - Two gentlemen of Verona
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| Not proud to call it home - 1/4/2008
I am a New Orleans native. Before the storm, New Orleans was not one of the best places to live in my opinion. After the storm , the city has gotten worse. Lack of good paying jobs, and crime are the[read more...]
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| Quality of life - 1/4/2008
I am a New Orleans native. I think this city has gotten worst since Katrina. Crime is one reason. Too many people dependent on the[read more...]
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| Great place to retire. - 12/12/2007
If you have the $ and like the funk, NOLA is a great place to retire. The colleges are excellent, the food is really good, the music scene is exciting, the architecture is exquisite, and the street[read more...]
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| 99% of Murders in N.O. are Drug Related Gangs - 8/18/2007
The murder rate after Katrina went sky high due to Drug Gangs taking over new territory.
Tourists are pretty much safe as long as they stay in the right areas.
Do Not Stray. Remain in public[read more...]
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| I'm in Iraq and I feel safer than if I were in my - 7/7/2007
Facts:
New Orleans has the worst murder rate, education system, and crime of any other place in the U.S.
Why would anyone move there knowing this? You might ask yourself, "Then why do people[read more...]
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| The last two posts say it all - 6/18/2007
All you have to do is read the last two posts - although the spelling and punctuation in the one was so bad it was difficult to figure out what they were even trying to say - to see that the people[read more...]
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| How Could You? - 6/11/2007
Well hello I agree with Kass completely. How are you just gonna talk about New Orleans and you don't know anything about it. I live on the westbank which is in the metro area of New Orleans I guess[read more...]
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| u call it hell but i call it home - 6/5/2007
I came to find this website on mistake looking for realestate in my hometown of New Orleans. At first i wasnt going to leave a remark but after sum of the things ive read it makes me sad that sum[read more...]
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| Just a big ole toilet bowl - 5/17/2007
What a dump to live in. It was bad in New Orleans before Katrina, but living there is much worse now. Although, Katrina did get rid of some of the run down housing that was there before. Spike Lee[read more...]
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| Wretched City - 5/16/2007
My husband and I went to New Orleans on vacation in 2003 - we left early. We went back just this month on our way to Texas and found that other than fewer residents, it really hasn't changed. A high[read more...]
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| Moving from New Orleans - 5/6/2007
I am retired and I am considering[read more...]
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| Nice to visit - 5/2/2007
NOLA (New Orleans, LA) has a reputation for being a place to drink and have fun. It's not a great place to live as the city's political leaders have for years been incompetent to manage the city. [read more...]
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| Visit don't stay - 3/19/2007
I've lived in New Orleans for over 20 years and as a single woman I contiually find that not only do the locals lack a certain level of morals but the city also attracts some serious low lifes. I[read more...]
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| Post-Katrina - 1/28/2007
Post-Katrina, not much quality of[read more...]
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| ignorance - 7/31/2006
New Orleans has a high crime rate, mostly due to drugs. People have grown up in generations of ignorance and do not know how to get or appreciate a job and working for a[read more...]
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| Lower 9th Ward For Life - 7/25/2006
Born and raised in the "LOWER 9TH WARD." I haved lived in 4 other major cities and let me tell you that not one of them can match the Food, Culture, Entertainment, History of "THE BIG EASY." In the[read more...]
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| walkin to new orleans.... - 7/20/2006
i love new orleans. she's my lifeblood. the best thing about her is that 90% of the nation's population couldn't understand her, or wouldn't care to. that's what makes her so special for those who[read more...]
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| Scary place to live - 7/15/2006
Been here all my life and finally am leaving. The crime rate is a major reason for the move.[read more...]
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| I guess it is a love learned - 7/12/2006
I read all of these comments and must say that I disagree with these people's perception of "quality of life." I would hate to live in one of these straight laced cities that shuts down at 11pm. [read more...]
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| got imagination? - 6/19/2006
Leave as quickly as possible. Awful place to raise children. Bad roads, high crime, high divorce, high veneral disease, low police moral, public schools, low wages, low respect for experienced[read more...]
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