New Orleans is the OTHER Detroit.
If you want to see, smell, & taste filth, visit New Orleans.
Down in the Quarter, business owners have to wash their store fronts each morning with bleach to remove the vomit & spilled liquor. The smell is awful - it will ruin your breakfast appetite.
Leave your nice clothes at home. The better you dress the more likely you will be mugged or murdered. Leave the nice shoes at home, too. The streets are filthy. Your best bet is to dress as poorly as you can stand to avoid theft & scams.
If you are thinking of New Orleans for a vacation, think of Cleveland, Newark, or Oakland instead.
Tourism has kept NOLA one slight notch above Detroit.
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(1) Mardi Gras has become increasingly dangerous. (2) Post Katrina thugs have become bolder (3) NOLA's short sighted attempt to erase history.
Yep, NOLA will become Detroit, and maybe even worse.