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Old 10-21-2008, 01:34 PM
 
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The threads title was not about job market but about damage left after Katrina. Housing will continue to be a huge issue in New Orleans for the next couple of years because of the damage. I would guess that 1/2 of the areas homes are still abandoned. There are areas in New Orleans that would be a blast to live in, downtown, uptown, umm.... The rest you would have to pay me a sick ammount of $$$ to live in as its just not the same city as before. There are a ton of new people here from places like Michigan and Ohio that are looking for work and the only people that didn't seem to make it out had there kids in a school they liked, had alot of money, had to stay for work, had alot of friends thats stayed, or didn't have the money to move out. There are a ton of lower, middle lower, and upper class people in the city left. I would venture to say new orleans has one if the highest crime rates in the united states if not the highest, it was per person pre Katrina.
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Old 10-21-2008, 03:09 PM
 
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There are still a lot of restaurants not open, even fast food places, or not open a full schedule, b/c they can't get the help. A lot of boarded up businesses, same problem. I was there end of Sept (I go every 2 months to visit grandkids) and not much different from 2 yrs ago.
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Old 10-21-2008, 06:58 PM
 
Location: New Orleans, LA
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There are still a lot of restaurants not open, even fast food places, or not open a full schedule, b/c they can't get the help. A lot of boarded up businesses, same problem. I was there end of Sept (I go every 2 months to visit grandkids) and not much different from 2 yrs ago.
Where do you get this information? According to Tom Fitzmorris, a local foot critic, we have more restaurants open today than we did before Katrina??? You've got bad information or you're just making this up based on your own opinion.
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Old 10-21-2008, 07:36 PM
 
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Where do you get this information? According to Tom Fitzmorris, a local foot critic, we have more restaurants open today than we did before Katrina??? You've got bad information or you're just making this up based on your own opinion.
Well, if you actually READ what I wrote, you'd see that I am there every 2 months, the last at the end of Sept. I reported what I saw.
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Old 10-21-2008, 09:35 PM
 
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And Fitzmorris' claim was about what he called "real" restaurants, not including gas stations that served food or fast food restaurants. I don't know if he counted Jefferson PArish as well, or only New Orleans itself.
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Old 11-05-2008, 01:22 PM
 
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Restaurants do not mean a city like NO is back, they just mean us southerners like to eat.
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Old 11-05-2008, 03:18 PM
 
Location: Baton Rouge
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Surprisingly, Lakeview is looking pretty good, considering how much damage they got. If they could get the streets fixed up, they would be sitting pretty in Lakeview. I think many neigborhoods are getting better little by little.

Contractors and house flippers are buying houses in groups (sometimes even by the block) and renovating them, then slapping them on the market.
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