I have lived in Central Florida (Military) South Florida, Central Texas, Houston Area, Southern California, & NY City & Montana most of them because of working for the FAA...
No matter were you live there are always good areas & bad areas...
& how in the world the recent incident on Bourbon street indicative of NOLA being a 3rd World City? By not having the barricades (that Fed gave us money for years ago) in place.
It was a horrible incident perpetuated by an individual not even from NOLA...
I was born in NOLA & raised in Jefferson Parish it is ridiculous how people from outside of New Orleans always bad mouth it.
It is one of the reasons our state has stagnated so badly since the 1960's. All the other states that I have lived in all have tried to help their major cities grow...
EXCEPT LOUISIANA! That's true but it doesn't change the fact. Sorry if my opinion offends you but, again it doesn't change the fact.
Ask yourself why is that???