To each their own I guess...
I'm also originally from a third world country and lived in New Orleans for a year. The place is an absolute dump. Aside from a couple of streets in the French Quarter and Magazine Street, the place is a crime ridden hell hole that consistently smells like open sewage. Aside from that, it's dark, gloomy and muggy for half the year. The murder rate is in the top 30 world wide. Taxes are some of the highest in the US. The schools are worse than most third world countries (I'm not exaggerating, look it up). Shopping there sucks and the touristy stuff gets old pretty quick. Outside of the French Quarter, the city is mind numbingly boring.
The day I left was the best day of my life.
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