Posted on 08/17/2018 6:14:22 AM PDT by C19fan
The family stepped warily onto Bourbon Street and hurried past a burlesque joint, an absinthe bar and neon signs touting “Leather Lingerie Love Toys” and “Hunk Oasis Male Strippers.”
Heather and Chad Bruton, a clean-cut couple from Texas, didn’t want to visit this historic city for the first time without witnessing its famed promenade of debauchery. But with three young children in tow, they didn’t want to see too much.
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You can’t pick up a turd from the clean end.
And the rest of the city? Pretty dangerous. Just don’t wander too far.
They complain about few families in the Quarter. At the cost of properties in the Quarter, unless you are already rich, you can’t afford a property. Just not where a young family would start.
no! i don’t drink, smoke or gamble but i love NOLA and Las Vegas. Adults need their spaces away from children.
Show me someone going to New Orleans for vacation and I’ll show you someone going to New Orleans for the first time.
I go most years on my birthday. We love it. We avoid Bourbon Street like the plague. Great restaurants, beautiful French Quarter, great bars.
I visited New Orleans and had an okay time. Then Katrina hit and I saw that city for what it was: a jungle of greedy parasites run by thieves and incompetents and ket alive only by old money and gullible tourists.
There’s nothing there I ever need to see again.
The kids have seen worse from their parents....
I looked at the city differently when I was in my 20's.
Well, I like architecture and New Orleans has a special type of architecture that is special to itself. To walk its streets (The Garden District!) is to wallow in beauty, in my opinion. I also love its history. Great for antiquing as well.
My wife is a fanatic for antiques and insists on going with me as often as possible. She just can’t afford them. I go for the charbrioled oysters, although we have to travel to Metairie for them (Drago’s).
I can’t afford them either! But I love to look in the little shops. My husband is into the oysters (although I like them in a po’boy) and I’m into their coffee. And some of the smaller hotels in the Quarter are exquisite.
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