I dont know how you guys live in the city.I have to be able to breathe--clean air and plenty of green space,a low crime rate sleepy town for me. I had a friend that lived uptown, and every house had bars on the windows. She said she was in the good area. Wow, I saw less of a threat in a 3rd world country I lived in once.
I guess Im still a country girl, but good luck to you. Hope you pack heat LOL
Originally Posted by chellachella
I don't feel squinched-in at all--and I'm walking distance to City Park. I've got decorative wrought-iron bars on the front French Windows, which is great: when the weather is nice, I don't worry about leaving the french doors open w/their screens, locking my front door & going to work for the day. No one would be able to get through the bars before a neighbor would notice since my TV & computer are right there in the front room for anyone walking by to see--but I did that all the time last year & nary a problem. Bars on windows are very much a Caribbean-Hispanic-Gallic architectural feature, whether you live in a city w/high-crime or not. All those places uptown w/bars on the windows? They weren't added on as an after-thought. They were built like that 80-100 yrs. ago. Of course, the counter-argument is NOLA may have had a horrific property-crime rate for that length of time...
Crime rates by city still are localized to particular areas: I have lived, periodically, in at least three cities that were "the most dangerous in the US". Each time, I never felt un-safe. Why? Well: was I a drug-dealer in public housing? No. Therefore, statistically-speaking, my life insurance risk was still pretty good. Having said that, I would NOT voluntarily live in 7th or 9th Wards w/o a machine-gun, eyes in the back of my head & a Bengal Tiger named "Cuddles." But they aren't the whole city--they're two areas. The Treme is considered "transitional" which is real-estate-code-speak for "moderately shitty." However, there ARE blocks of the Treme that I would consider living in. There's even parts of the WB I would live in if I didn't love where I was now. Plus most of Metairie & Kenner are fine. The area along Gentilly is beautiful--don't know if it's good or not, but it sure is pretty.
The Garden Dist. was REALLY over-priced when I was looking--my apt. in the Garden Dist. would be about $500-700 more than it is in mid-City, plus I have better parking. I also didn't want to live downtown or in Le Quartier. Here's a thought: if you want a place that actually has parking & room for your dogs (or at least a decent neighborhood to walk them) have you looked @ a small-ish place in Navarre? Granted it's not on a streetcar line, but it's pleasant & there are some small 1-BR-looking places there. Yet your neighbors tend to be younger professionals--they also tend to be not-nosy. It IS however, even further away from CBD & Fr. Qtr. than mid-City, as it's one neighborhood north. Still if you found a place a block off of Navarre, it would be a quick run down Navarre to Orleans Ave. to get back to Qtr./CBD.
xoxo annie
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