[Locke]

Originally Posted by blankall

Depends what part of the city you're in, but there's very much a feeling of lawlessness and general abandonment in various parts of the city. It's quite sad. The government and the surrounding well off people have just given up on large parts of the city, and the people who still live there.

Outside of the main areas, I saw groups of young men openly wearing gang colors, in ways I hadn't seen in any other part of the USA. I've never been to the rough parts of, for example, LA. I'm sure those rough parts exist in a lot of USA cities, but in New Orleans they were encroaching on the tourist type areas.

Beyond the gangs, just a lot of desperation. Sometimes I think about moving to the states, but then I see the massive inequality and don't think I could ever do it. The fact that so many people can't afford to see a doctor. Or that after a hurricane, the country would just leave people to fend themselves for decades after.....then the combo of giving these desperate people lots of guns...

And cheap booze and drugs, in conjunction with a piss poor education and, as you alluded to, no medical help.

You can see that trainwreck coming from miles away...