I’ve spent quite a bit of time working in and around New Orleans over the past 30 odd years. It’s a rough city and has been for decades. There is no better place in the USA to get thumped on the head and relieved of your wallet. In the quarter watch out for the street kids. They’re all pickpockets and they work together, usually with one or more adults. The last project I did in New Orleans I had an apartment across the street from Tulane. I’ve never heard so much automatic gunfire in my life, including some places I worked in Africa and the middle east. It was so bad I moved out to the other side of the lake after a week. Won’t be going back, I don’t care how much it pays. New Orleans is a war zone.
“New Orleans is a war zone.”
I know two people - both law-abiding adults - who were murdered in N.O. (separate incidences). I don’t know anyone who was murdered anywhere else.