I went to a yearly festival recently and there were probably a dozen or so LEOs there where in the past there have been just a couple. It seems there's a high alert on large gatherings despite no "official" proclamations of increased threats.
New Orleans is one of my favorite places. I was engaged in Nola. I was married there the following year, and I've been back 4 or 5 times over the past 10 years.
However, New Orleans has noticably gone downhill in the past 5 or so years.
What used to be a "normal" sketchy urban area {normal by city standards}, but full of beautiful places and wonderful people, has turned into a gangland nightmare. The homeless used to be unintrusive types. Now, there are far more of them. Camped out by the st Louis cathedral even. They may threaten to kill you on the spot if you don't play along with their bullshit. I believe there was a dead body just laying against the wall there last time I visited, and the little markets setup around the cathedral just carried on selling all around him.
I went to Mardi Gras in my mid-20s. Fell in love with NOLA, but even then some parts were pretty rough. But I think NOLA teeters on the edge, even in good times. Hubby was in the NG and got sent there during Katrina for a month. I will never get him back there because he saw the super ugly side. An illustration of just how fast things can go bad.
Oh yes, no doubt when you have that mixture... The party atmosphere mixed with tourism, mixed with poverty and homelessness. .. Yeah, it was always dangerous for sure.
I only meant that it's much worse now
Similar to Philly, which I grew up hanging in and around. In the past 5-7 years it's turned into a hellhole. My Philly friends won't even go to their old spots. You can't.
These shootings are used as a distraction for what is coming.
I went to a yearly festival recently and there were probably a dozen or so LEOs there where in the past there have been just a couple. It seems there's a high alert on large gatherings despite no "official" proclamations of increased threats.
Imagine that....
New Orleans is one of my favorite places. I was engaged in Nola. I was married there the following year, and I've been back 4 or 5 times over the past 10 years.
However, New Orleans has noticably gone downhill in the past 5 or so years.
What used to be a "normal" sketchy urban area {normal by city standards}, but full of beautiful places and wonderful people, has turned into a gangland nightmare. The homeless used to be unintrusive types. Now, there are far more of them. Camped out by the st Louis cathedral even. They may threaten to kill you on the spot if you don't play along with their bullshit. I believe there was a dead body just laying against the wall there last time I visited, and the little markets setup around the cathedral just carried on selling all around him.
Pretty sad, really.
I went to Mardi Gras in my mid-20s. Fell in love with NOLA, but even then some parts were pretty rough. But I think NOLA teeters on the edge, even in good times. Hubby was in the NG and got sent there during Katrina for a month. I will never get him back there because he saw the super ugly side. An illustration of just how fast things can go bad.
Oh yes, no doubt when you have that mixture... The party atmosphere mixed with tourism, mixed with poverty and homelessness. .. Yeah, it was always dangerous for sure.
I only meant that it's much worse now
Similar to Philly, which I grew up hanging in and around. In the past 5-7 years it's turned into a hellhole. My Philly friends won't even go to their old spots. You can't.
How unusual...