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What New Orleans Taught Me

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Re: What New Orleans Taught Me

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wenc wrote: post #15
SJC_Hacker wrote: post #9

Didn't grow up in the city, but relatives came from there, I still have an "ear to the ground" so to speak, am Saints fan and visit occasionally. Pros: - Great food - History (relative to the US at least) - Laid back culture - Decent public transit. Not as good as NYC or SF, but in the city and even outlying areas like Metarie the streetcar gets you alot of places - Interesting architechture in places like the Garden…

New Orleans is not a place I would settle in, but it's one of the most interesting places I've ever visited in the U.S. - Setting for Gabriel Knight I: Sins of the Fathers. The most atmospheric game I've ever played. It was basically a tour of New Orleans (St Johns cemetery, Lake Ponchartrain, Tulane, etc.) - Yes, food. Even though Antoine's, Commander's Palace, Mothers are touristy, they're the best touristy food I'…

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Re: What New Orleans Taught Me

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Post by speed_spread »

wenc wrote: post #15
SJC_Hacker wrote: post #9

Didn't grow up in the city, but relatives came from there, I still have an "ear to the ground" so to speak, am Saints fan and visit occasionally. Pros: - Great food - History (relative to the US at least) - Laid back culture - Decent public transit. Not as good as NYC or SF, but in the city and even outlying areas like Metarie the streetcar gets you alot of places - Interesting architechture in places like the Garden…

New Orleans is not a place I would settle in, but it's one of the most interesting places I've ever visited in the U.S. - Setting for Gabriel Knight I: Sins of the Fathers. The most atmospheric game I've ever played. It was basically a tour of New Orleans (St Johns cemetery, Lake Ponchartrain, Tulane, etc.) - Yes, food. Even though Antoine's, Commander's Palace, Mothers are touristy, they're the best touristy food I'…

The best NOLA-based game is NORCO. Fight me.

Re: What New Orleans Taught Me

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Post by Loughla »

b8 wrote: post #22

I grew up in Louisiana and have been to NOLA a lot (also studied at Tulane). While there's NOLACon etc. there isn't much tech here and not a lot of jobs. Lots of us live in poverty. Laissez faire and corrupt politics have been in Louisiana for a long time. Lots of public schools are closing to be replaced by private schools. NOLA floods pretty good every 5ish years, so it's not a good place to live imo + the insuranc…

My biggest complaint with NOLA is absolutely the school system. There were too many people taking advantage of the destruction of Katrina post hurricane, and the government was shamelessly complicit in the cash grab. Middle and upper middle class kids benefitted immensely, while the poor were further tracked into shitty schools for the most part.

When we were evaluating places to settle as adults, the schools are what kept us from stopping when we were there.

Re: What New Orleans Taught Me

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Post by bhelx »

mrkurt wrote: post #18

I really, really like New Orleans and this fits my 2 year experience so far. 2025 makes it hard to be far from SF for me again because there's so much interesting stuff getting built. FOMO follows me around though.

Glad to hear you’re enjoying it! Would love to meet up some time if you ever get the chance.

Re: What New Orleans Taught Me

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Post by adityamwagh »

SJC_Hacker wrote: post #9

Didn't grow up in the city, but relatives came from there, I still have an "ear to the ground" so to speak, am Saints fan and visit occasionally. Pros: - Great food - History (relative to the US at least) - Laid back culture - Decent public transit. Not as good as NYC or SF, but in the city and even outlying areas like Metarie the streetcar gets you alot of places - Interesting architechture in places like the Garden…

It’s apparently the murder capital of America too [0]

[0] https://nypost.com/2022/09/18/new-orleans-becomes-murder-cap...

Re: What New Orleans Taught Me

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Post by Multiplayer »

I've spent a lot of time in NOLA over the past 5 years as I have some investments here. The quality/price of housing and quality of life in the Uptown and Audubon Park areas is fantastic. I'm very surprised more remote engineers/workers haven't discovered it. Yes, hurricanes are a thing.

I would consider raising a family in those areas as well. Beautiful and walkable.

I live here part time now. I tell people New Orleans is a different country - has to be experienced.

Re: What New Orleans Taught Me

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Post by togakangaroo »

sixothree wrote: post #6
bhelx wrote: post #3

Speaking of community, there is a really nice little tech community going strong in New Orleans that I think reflects the culture talked about here. If you are ever in town you should stop by an event https://www.noladevs.org/ . Feel free to reach out to me if you want some intros.

Any recommendations on which meetups are worth attending?

Also a link on that noladevs site to the community slack. That one has been going since early Launchpad days....what? 14 years ago?

Re: What New Orleans Taught Me

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Post by janetmissed »

selimthegrim wrote: post #28
janetmissed wrote: post #25

I just moved to Seattle after being in New Orleans for about a month and I already miss nola. There’s really nothing else like it in America. I’m especially missing the cheap public transit and good dive bars, Seattle is lacking with both of those things

If only the cheap public transit was reliable and punctual. It is amusing when the bus driver stops and gets out to buy crawfish though.

it’s all part of the experience lol. I’d imagine I’d stop finding these quirks amusing pretty quickly if I actually lived there and got over the honeymoon phase. Also the self affirmation messages they play on the buses were kinda surreal the first time I heard them after a long night on bourbon street

Re: What New Orleans Taught Me

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Post by readthenotes1 »

Multiplayer wrote: post #37

I've spent a lot of time in NOLA over the past 5 years as I have some investments here. The quality/price of housing and quality of life in the Uptown and Audubon Park areas is fantastic. I'm very surprised more remote engineers/workers haven't discovered it. Yes, hurricanes are a thing. I would consider raising a family in those areas as well. Beautiful and walkable. I live here part time now. I tell people New Orle…

New Orleans has been a "different place" for a long time...

My great-great-uncle told me about driving there with a buddy during college--in the 1920s.

I think one of the early Harriet Potter books included the reference to a man who spent a year there in his youth and had the indiscretion to have experimented with alcohol.

Just a very different place from the rest of the US South, and AFAICT, different from any other place in the US

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