Talk About Tennis 2.0

Environmentally and planet wise, smaller towns disappearing is good. It takes less energy and resources to fuel a large city than to fuel many smaller towns with an equivalent population. You also don't have many, many people driving to far away places to get stuff, be it supplies or a job.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 5:35 pm Environmentally and planet wise, smaller towns disappearing is good. It takes less energy and resources to fuel a large city than to fuel many smaller towns with an equivalent population. You also don't have many, many people driving to far away places to get stuff, be it supplies or a job.

The industrial Mid West is slowly disappearing. The farm belt has become industrialized to the point the small mom & pop farm is barely hanging on. But hey let's keep interviewing the retirees and others who hang out in diners instead of focusing on where these folks are going and what they expect when they get to their new locations.

I wonder what's the appeal in living in New Orleans these days except if you have deep family roots there.

Suliso wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:56 pm I wonder what's the appeal in living in New Orleans these days except if you have deep family roots there.

The music and food alone are reason enough. But even then, for me, New Orleans is a wonderful place to VISIT--not live. The two times I've been there, at the end of the visit, I was ready to go home.

Suliso wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:56 pm I wonder what's the appeal in living in New Orleans these days except if you have deep family roots there.

A colleague temporarily moved there with some friends for the pandemic. She went to college there so knows it well and I guess it was a cheaper option than NYC with more outdoor stuff year-round. She's been there over a year now.

She evacuated ahead of the storm.

I think people either love New Orleans or hate it. We went for a few days in May a couple of years ago and we loved it to the point that we were talking about purchasing a home for two families. Other people go and as soon as they step off the plane are ready to leave. In the end it's location, in the deep south, calmed us down.

I've never been there so I was just wondering. Bad climate, frequent natural disasters, general poverty of the region. Of course I've heard about the food and music too.

The poverty issue is skewed. Not everybody in N.O. is poor. With the Mississippi draining into the gulf there, there are tremendously important industries there for agricultural trade and exports. Grain elevators and therefore an entire support structure is there. Lots of support and high tech industry for the rigs and oil industry in the gulf. Just a bit above N.O. you also have a lot of oil refineries and related industry.
You could make the same claim about Galveston in TX, and wonder how come people stay there. In the end, for the same reason people always stay someplace: money.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:41 pm The poverty issue is skewed. Not everybody in N.O. is poor. With the Mississippi draining into the gulf there, there are tremendously important industries there for agricultural trade and exports. Grain elevators and therefore an entire support structure is there. Lots of support and high tech industry for the rigs and oil industry in the gulf. Just a bit above N.O. you also have a lot of oil refineries and related industry.
You could make the same claim about Galveston in TX, and wonder how come people stay there. In the end, for the same reason people always stay someplace: money.

This. Even during our short stay you could see that wealthy people live in the city proper.