......”New Orleans is one of the nastiest cities I’ve been to”.....
You’re not the first I’ve heard that about New Orleans.
New Orleans is awesome! My family went there for the first time for NYE 2019 and we had a fabulous time. We did a Plantation tour, a swamp tour to look for alligators, visited a Voodoo museum and a great WW 2 museum, and every night ate fabulous shrimp (best EVER) and other good food and listened to great jazz and other great music. And we walked around with our drinks outside. My teen was even tipped playing ragtime on a public piano open to all. Great fun. It was nice and mild on NYE. I can’t wait to go back for another trip.