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Never have I seen a city that only has negative reviews online. Every single post is only complaining about homeless people:

http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/Louisiana/New_Orleans-793014/Warnings_or_Dangers-New_Orleans-Betcha_I_can_tell_ya_where_ya_got_dem_shoes-BR-1.html




That city is worse than Detroit. In Detroit they are at least trying to build up an economy again with new industry. This city was hit by Katrina and they didn't even try to fix it after that!

They do not fuck around!


- http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/Louisiana/New_Orleans-793014/Warnings_or_Dangers-New_Orleans-Bad_Neighborhoods-BR-1.html

Stick to well lit areas. Travel in groups. Don't let anyone in the quarter that you don't know stop you, they are probably scam artists. The most common scam is for a person to bet you an amount of money they know where you got your shoes and when. Answer: 'On yo feet, and in Nawlins.' Just be aware of your surroundings and you'll be fine.

Carry or at least get a knife, and if not just be ready to fight. Travel in groups. Have a phone handy just in case.

Most of all, carry yourself straight and with confidence. Be aware of your surroundings. Hustlers and punks know in the first glance which ones to avoid and which ones are easy marks.

From a racial angle, non-blacks of any color should be fully prepared to fight against blacks in new orleans. To be unprepared otherwise or pretend you are down with em because you happened to be a bit tan is first ticket to being seen as their bitch.

What expect from the vodoo city?


Just avoid the city if you can, otherwise carry a gun or hire some security team.

But I would stick with the don't go to New Orleans option.

I have never had a unpleasant encounter with any person or group in a huge number of times in and out of NO.  Maybe 50-75. 

Of course any number of things could influence this, maybe they prey on people that look a certain way.  No clue about that.....

Never go there for travel! If have to, alway go to some public places with a lot people around in the day time!

The closest I've ever been and would ever want to go to New Orleans was watching "The Princess and the Frog".  The way the city carried itself leading up to Katrina shows why it shouldn't have been rebuilt.  Chocolate mayor is now behind chocolate bars  :D

'Nawlins has ALWAYS been a "brawling" town.

Its got trouble and alot of it. Lots of history, old buildings, the French Armory.

On Bourbon Street, it smells like garbage/shit with a blast of air conditioning.

I thought it was weird they put their garbage cans underground with metal lids.

It was a rundown place before Katrina, its probably worse now.

That was its charm and still is.

How can something like this happen in the US?

http://img.youtube.com/vi/SvO73fHiY1g/hqdefault.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvO73fHiY1g)

Let's face it, any inner city can look like this when they get overran by ghetto type people. The war on drugs gives them something to do outside the legal boundries and the war on poverty keeps these types having kids w/o fathers and thus the cycle goes on.

This is true. Many "inner city" people have very few morals.

I know an old man that spent his entire working life in the merchant navy. He's travelled the world, many times over. Tells some great stories. And of all the places he's been to he reckons that it was in New Orleans that he felt most in danger.



   That doesn't add much does it ?


Can't speak of New Orleans, but in the UK I have seen communities devastated by the loss of industry - and all of a sudden (within 10 years), a population grows up with no vested interest in wider society and no hope of work. The loss of jobs/industry and the decimation in communities is matched in its magnitude only by the increase in the size of the supply of class A drugs.

    And la voila, you have the seeds of a Hell on earth.


Give people some hope - share out the fruits of technological prosperity. Share the wealth of the nation.

Yours first.

I think the liberals would be screaming racism if New Orleans was not rebuilt. I think a lot of these kind of people have very few job skills so they resort to illegal activity, often of which is stealing from the "average joe"

I agree with Ramsey above that the war on drugs likely causes a lot of these kids' fathers to be locked up and without a role model (not that they were that great of a role model in the first place, but was something), causing them to also to resort to stealing and other illegal things.

I pay tax - and I don't whinge about it. How about you ?

Was a good city to visit stripe club and jazz music. Didn't know the mayor went to jail. You have a news source for what he did?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/us/ray-nagin-former-new-orleans-mayor.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/us/ray-nagin-former-new-orleans-mayor.html?_r=0)

He basically skimmed money off of each contract that went for repairing the city.  Figure dollars in contracts went in, and took a small cut - he made millions in kickbacks.  The only thing is he got caught.

1/2 of Congress/Senate is doing this and Congress even voted against a bill to punish themselves for insider trading.  Gee, let the crooks vote on laws that would punish them - how could that go wrong  :o

Republics and Democrats both do this equally - but I think Nancy Pelosi is probably the one who had the best run due to her position as Speaker.

If the corruption is public knowledge, why didn't the voter kick them out?

The corruption is not printed in large boldface type on the front page of every newspaper (since every newspaper gets special privileges to stay in business from some elected official).  There is no Facebook page or twitter account with 2 million audience listening to political corruption. Everybody knows either Beyonce, Katy Perry or Miley Cyrus but they can't even name their 2 state Senators nor their Congressional district.

Plain and simple - apathy.  Until they see the politician literally stealing the iPad out of their car they don't care.  Out of sight out of mind.

Because America doesn't have enough government.  Those damn libertarians and anarchists are to blame.

It's interesting people are dancing around the most obvious cause: racial attitude.

Two of the most bankrupt and corrupt places in America are detroit and new orleans. Now check the racial history of those two places and current demographics, not to mention mayoral ethnic background.

This doesn't even count in places such as oakland, ca or washington dc metro area. When are you going to stop dancing around the fact that american blacks are simply not stepping up to acting like proper citizens compared to all other ethnicities, even mexicans?

Do not give weak excuses about economics or crock tear 'oppression' stories. Other places have had it worse, and got much better. These places are the way they are because of blacks, plain and simple.

Well that site hasn't updated since 2008 on the comments
But your right they were all pretty negative but six years is a long time.

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On your feet!
by TravellerMel Written Aug 30, 2008
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Unfortunately, New Orleans has a large number of homeless and/or seedy people who live in and around the tourist areas, and they like to harass tourists and locals alike. A common scam is to approach a "mark" and make a bet, along the lines of "I betcha I can tell you where you got them shoes." Once you engage them, even dismissively ("I can't even remember where..."), they have you hooked. They will talk you into agreeing to let them tell you where you where, indeed, you got your shoes. The unarguable answer will be: on your feet, on the street, in New Orleans. Most likely, this is the point where they will inform you that you now must pay them $20 for the "lesson" - and this last part is definitely meant to sound intimidating.

You're fucking brilliant!  I agree!  Let's not "dance around" this issue any more!  It's time for us to declare war on melanin!  If we can just rid the world of this hideous melanin all of our problems will be solved!

I go to NO 2-3 times a year and have never had an issue. It is one of my favorite places to visit. The culinary and arts scene is great. You have to be street smart in any major city but it isn't like the predators descend on you as soon as you step outside your hotel lobby.

It's not a scam it's just theft, because at the end they force you to give the money and shoes without anything contractual.

As someone who travels a lot, I think there is a minimum of things to do, avoid shaddy area and if you go there don't carry valuables, and where plain things

Avoid showing off your stuff, there are thiefs/scammers that would choose their targets from the hotel exit and approach you when you'd least expect it

Moving in groups help, but I think the most important thing is to work on the individual behavior before anything else

That's why you come to NO. To listen to music, people watch and eat the awesome food. Use Tripadvisor for eating. Bourbon st is full of people, all kinds. The music is everywhere and you can get and do about anything you want. A New Orleans staple. Don't leave town without walking down. It's busy most of the time but you don't have to be there real late to enjoy. 7:30 pm things are rocking already.
Visited October 2012

Massive unrepairable damage, unlimited ammo, just wearing it will keep most people away.

http://www.fondox.net/wallpapers/una-katana-1632.jpg

what that picture reminded me off
https://warosu.org/data/biz/img/0002/37/1395764374375.jpg
Might be one of the biggest scams of the decade?

I went to New Orleans because so many friends had told be it was a place worth visiting, so I was very excited. It turned out I did not understand what all the fuss was about. The French Quarter smelled like garbage, even though there are people cleaning all the time, the stench is still in the air. The tours you take on carriages are to worth the money you pay. Bourbon St is full of cheap, drunk, sleazy people partying like its there first time in a bar. Over all I could not wait for the weekend to be over.

You never know what you are going to see on Bourbon Street, especially late at night. There is no place else like it in this country. If you can't have fun walking down Bourbon, you can't have fun.

lol, you'll have to excuse Honeypot, he's a bit obsessed with black people.

Can you give an example? isn't the Bourbon street in the french neighbourhood or something? excuse my ignorance :) I'm not familliar with the US and especially with New Orleans

Bourbon street in the french quarter,New Orleans
Most anyone who comes to New Orleans wants to experience Bourbon Street. Many sights and sounds you won't experience anywhere else. You can walk around with a cocktail and take in the sights. There are many clubs/bars with live music by mainly NO musicians. A must-do for any first time tourist. Note: It can be a bit crowded at times so don't go if you don't like crowds.

Interesting might be something to add in a tour, for a next visit to the US, and of course taking in consideration this scam, the trick I do sometimes when I'm bothered and I'm in unsafe area I just pretend  not be able to speak the language and keep walking, works almost every time

Hurricane season is actually a nice time to go. People tend to avoid the gulf coast from August to November for fear of having their travel interrupted. You can get some nice deals on hotels and restaurants often have lower prices. 

http://www.sketchfactor.com/


http://www.examiner.com/article/d-c-news-crew-robbed-news-crew-reporting-on-racist-locality-app-robbed

I think a lot of the "fun" that can be had in New Orleans has to do with drinking and getting drunk. If this is not your "cup of tea" then New Orleans and burbon street is likely not for you.

I don't like drinking, smoking, drugs or anything that is dangerous for my health, by I enjoy laughing with my friends when they are drunk before they hit the bucket, so I guess that's the ambiance you have there if I understood your post correctly

Ain't that right, boy :)

You my new bitch?

You are like a giant, exotic, alien teddy bear from another dimension I cannot even comprehend.

Why you think so ? I personally find it weird when people are proud about destroying their health and being potentially a danger to other good thinking, it's not like I never tried drinking, weed and what's not, I did when I was a teen, and I didn't find any interest into it, not only that but I saw how smoking destroyed my fathers health till he got a heart stroke, and stopped afterward and from there he's been doing better, I lost a couple of friends due to drinking and driving, and old friends of mine is mentally ill due to the effect of weed and other drugs. I'm pretty happy with my current life style if anything is the lack of sports that I need to fix

I wouldn't go that far, but I would say he is certainly in the minority. In my experience the fast majority of people enjoy "partying" at least somewhat in small frequencies.

This is why places like New Orleans are so popular with tourists as people go there to enjoy a short vacation of partying. It is also probably likely why there are so many street scams there because so many people there are inebriated.

Anyone here from Metairie?

not only new orleans has scammers but also every place on earth has scammers too so do not give new orleans a bad name..