Jersey City Vs. New Orleans (compare, places, bigger, Boston)
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New Orleans has more history than most of the United States itself. That's excluding the history of Louisiana.
Since you want to throw a Wiki article, check this?
and still is nowhere near all of it. I could go own about what Jersey doesn't have, but see I don't know anythomg about New Jersey I can't speak on it. Next time you comment on NO, know what you're talking about.
Whoa, easy there...I never said New Orleans didn't have history. I know it does. My premise is that Jersey City has a much better location, climate, economy, quality of life, is safer, and has more things to do nearby (3 minutes to Manhattan NYC, 45 minutes to beaches, 45 minutes to the mountains, 2 hours from Atlantic City, and the list goes on. As far as I know, the only thing 45 minutes away from New Orleans is swamps. I really enjoyed my stay in New Orleans....as a place to visit...but what I'm trying to do is list all the positive aspects that Jersey City offers as a place to LIVE (not visit).
Whoa, easy there...I never said New Orleans didn't have history. I know it does. My premise is that Jersey City has a much better location, climate, economy, quality of life, is safer, and has more things to do nearby (3 minutes to Manhattan NYC, 45 minutes to beaches, 45 minutes to the mountains, 2 hours from Atlantic City, and the list goes on. As far as I know, the only thing 45 minutes away from New Orleans is swamps. I really enjoyed my stay in New Orleans....as a place to visit...but what I'm trying to do is list all the positive aspects that Jersey City offers as a place to LIVE (not visit).
Location, climate, quality of life, and relative safety are all matters of opinion. The economy here is mainly based on tourism, oil, construction, and getting the rest of the country what it needs. I'd say the economy is not that bad considering the effects of Katrina. It's not the best, but hey! They are now trying to get into the biomedical realm. New Orleans also has it's crime problems, but how bad it affects you depends on how you live and the situations you put yourself in for the most part. 45 minutes to an hour from New Orleans and you have Baton Rouge to west and the Mississippi Gulf Coast to the east. That being said, how good a place is should not depend on what was 45 minutes away IMHO. Shouldn't it be the things that keep you in said city and not what attracts you away?
If you ask me, you don't get the true essence of NOLA until you leave the CBD. All of that touristy **** is overrated or over stereotyped.
New Orleans is not a Southern City as much as it is a Gulf city.
And the immigrant history here is much like that in New York....Irish, Italian, German...and much of the Americans that came in during the boom years of the pre Civil War era were from Philly and NYC, so New Orleans definately has this odd New Yorkish/Gulf Coast flavor but I'd characterize it as different from say Charleston/Savannah or much of the "Deep South".
And I live in New Orleans therefore I pick NOLA > *
So you live in NYC, but you would choose to live in NO over JC, which is right across the river from where you currently live?
What would you do for a living...just curious.
yeah, seriously. its faster to get into manhattan from jc than many parts of the outer boroughs..
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I really enjoyed my stay in New Orleans....as a place to visit...but what I'm trying to do is list all the positive aspects that Jersey City offers as a place to LIVE (not visit).
