So why worry about it? I'm not sitting here wondering why people want to live in the middle of nowhere.
I love New Orleans. I love living in here. Every time I get off the interstate into one of the NOLA neighborhoods I get an indescribable bolt of energy. I've never felt that feeling anywhere else that I've been to. So I wouldn't trade living here, for living in the middle of nowhere, even if the murder rate was twice as high as it is now.
New Orleans isn't for everyone. No great city is.