re: Amari Cooper said what we've all been thinking about New Orleans

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.....and the most awful music in human history: jazz

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what the frick

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.....and the most awful music in human history: jazz

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Okay, you are dead to me. Don't expect any Christmas card from me next year unless it's attached to a box filled with cobras.

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It's comical the inferiority complex New Orleans residents have with their own city. They knows its a shitty tourist town so they double down on their defense of the city any time someone even hints the possibility that it is not the greatest city in America.

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I think they have a pretty realistic view of their city. They know it's a storm away from being destroyed. They are open about where the shitty touristy places are, and they are quick to give you damn good eating and drinking recs.

You aren't doing it right, and your NOLA friends sound like they suck.

You can have a good time in NOLA but you couldn't pay me enough to live there. It's just a filthy city with far too much riff-raff to ever be even remotely appealing to me. Good food, though.

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They know it's a storm away from being destroyed.

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It's a coastal city below sea level and surrounded by swampland. Every day you don't come home to find water in your living room is a blessing.

Just a few accolades the city has recently received (not tourism related)

• Greater New Orleans is the #2 Boomtown in America, due to population and GDP growth [Bloomberg]
• Greater New Orleans was named the #3 Big City Winning the IT Jobs Battle (after Silicon Valley and San Francisco) [Forbes]
• Greater New Orleans is #6 for creating middle-income jobs in the USA [Forbes]
• Louisiana is the #1 Most Improved State on the “Best States for Business” ranking since 2008 [Forbes]
• Greater New Orleans was the #1 Most Improved Metro in the USA [Wall Street Journal]

• New Orleans was ranked #1 on the list of “America's Biggest Brain Magnets” for attracting people under 25 with college degrees [Forbes]
• Louisiana’s workers are considered the Most Engaged Workforce in the USA [Gallup]
• Louisiana Economic Development’s FastStart training program has been ranked #1 in the USA four years in a row [Business Facilities]
• New Orleans grew faster than any other major U.S. city in the 15 months after the 2010 decennial headcount [U.S. Census Bureau]
• Louisiana has enjoyed 5 straight years of net in-migration [US Census Bureau]

• Louisiana was rated the #2 State in the USA to Start a Company [Tax Foundation + KPMG] Quality of Life
• New Orleans ranked in the Top 5 "Most Affordable Cities for Households" in the USA [Intuit]
• Louisiana was named #2 Best State to Retire [Bankrate.com]

New Orleans was named the number one U.S. City for Food by Thrillist.com

Men's Health Magazine named New Orleans the seventh Friendliest City in America

Business Facilities magazine ranked New Orleans the 5th best city for Economic Growth Potential and Louisiana the number one Best Business Climate in the USA

Forbes recognized New Orleans as one of America's New Brainpower Cities

CondeNast Traveler names New Orleans the fifth the Best American Cities for Foodies

In the January issue of Food & Wine, the magazine polled its readers for their picks. The "clear favorite" for top dining city was New Orleans.

Amari sure knows how to rustle some jimmies.

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New Orleans is consistently voted among the top 2-3 dirtiest cities in America, and was Time magazine's dirtiest city in America in 2011 and 2012.

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New Orleans has also had the highest murder rate of any American city with a population over 100k every year but one since 2000. In 2009 it's crime rate was 17th IN THE WORLD. The last time New Orleans wasnt in the top 10 in violent crimes among major cities in America was 1811...the year before Louisiana joined the union.

Everything I said is a fact.

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And yet, I've managed to make it 40+ years in this city above ground.

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Oh frick off, he's telling the truth.

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Hey I'm just warning him. If he goes down the Katrina road, he really will get banned.

Also, more than half of the city is at or above sea level, so he is actually wrong.

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Also, more than half of the city is at or above sea level, so he is actually wrong.

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yeah, I'm still siding with him on his statement