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 District and French Quarter
- All-in-all, one of the most unique places in the US
Cons:
- Weather is shyte, although winters tend to be mild (ironically it can get cold at times, even worse than say the SF Bay)
- K-12 education outside of private and parochial Catholic is mostly, not good
- The politics. Depending your perspective, you get the worst of both worlds (batshit insane conservatives running the state vs. corrupt liberals running the city)
- Every other commercial you see will be for personal injury lawyers. The tort decisions there are out of control and insurance rates are high.
All this is probably OK for childless young adults. I'd think twice before settling down there though
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've ever had. Then there's the usual suspects like Cafe du Monde beignet's, jambalayas, crawfish etouffees, gumbos, po-boys and mufulettas.
I also wandered out to Metarie (which I learned was pronounced Meta-ree, not Me-taree). It's a suburb.
America doesn't really have any other destinations quite like it.
It was much worse back then and pre pandemic. In practice if you have a good relationship with your neighbors, they will probably warn you when the shooting is about to start.
Yeah injury lawyers are prevalent, because they can get paid $50k and under without having a jury. Lots of lawyers conspire with judges to get favourable decisions.
He’s not right but he’s not wrong, I was waiting for something in one of the city’s offices once and he came in and people in the middle of much more complicated legal affairs recognized him and started begging him for help. He brushed them off and went through to do whatever his business was.
Plastic surgery’s a pretty powerful force in his universe too, this was only a few years ago but he looked just the same as when I was seeing his ads on tv in the eighties all the time.
I sat in a jury for a civil lawsuit between an employee, a company, and the insurer for the company. Guy was driving a company vehicle for work and got T-boned on a rural highway by some kids riding through cane fields. His line of work was cleaning those giant shipping vessels, which requires you to climb about 60 feet vertically. Well, the company didn't want to pay more for insurance, so they tried to get the guy to take a foreman gig so they could skimp on his payout.
Long story short, the counsel for the plaintiff was VERY good, made the insurance company's people look like amateurs, and was successful in pleading his case and getting everything he asked for. Very nice fellow, and I didn't notice until driving over a shipping canal that his face was plastered on a giant billboard for maritime injury cases, lol.
> they tried to get the guy to take a foreman gig so they could skimp on his payout.
That’s federal law; nothing to do with the company or New Orleans.
Glossing over a lot of nuance, but if you can offer the person what amounts to a lifetime (or at least long-term???) job at the same or better pay that they can reasonably do with their new disability, there is no standing for a workers comp claim.
The hell it doesn't. They didn't accommodate his new disability. The foreman on the crew had to make the same climb in the same gear, they just weren't doing the cleaning. This is a guy who tore and broke every joint and bone in both legs and had two separate locations where they had to fuse his spine.
They wanted to offer him the job so they could fire him for not performing because they didn't want their premium to increase.
In Omaha, there's a bar that records the number of jello shots purchased by the fans of each team every College World Series. When LSU was in the CWS, they bought a record amount of jello shots, obliterating the old record. That's because McKernan and Todd Graves (of Raising Canes fame) were taking turns buying thousands of them and giving them away to the LSU faithful.
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 District and French Quarter
- All-in-all, one of the most unique places in the US
Cons:
- Weather is shyte, although winters tend to be mild (ironically it can get cold at times, even worse than say the SF Bay)
- K-12 education outside of private and parochial Catholic is mostly, not good
- The politics. Depending your perspective, you get the worst of both worlds (batshit insane conservatives running the state vs. corrupt liberals running the city)
- Every other commercial you see will be for personal injury lawyers. The tort decisions there are out of control and insurance rates are high.
All this is probably OK for childless young adults. I'd think twice before settling down there though