alt Hacker NewsI've spent a lot of time in NOLA over the past 5 years as I have some investments here. The quality/price of housing and quality of life in the Uptown and Audubon Park areas is fantastic. I'm very surprised more remote engineers/workers haven't discovered it. Yes, hurricanes are a thing.
I would consider raising a family in those areas as well. Beautiful and walkable.
I live here part time now. I tell people New Orleans is a different country - has to be experienced.
New Orleans has been a "different place" for a long time...
My great-great-uncle told me about driving there with a buddy during college--in the 1920s.
I think one of the early Harriet Potter books included the reference to a man who spent a year there in his youth and had the indiscretion to have experimented with alcohol.
Just a very different place from the rest of the US South, and AFAICT, different from any other place in the US