New Orleans vs Detroit

[O-Dawg]

Ahhhh, whatta thread!

I lived in N.O. for 22 years pre-kat; was a displaced person in Detroit metro for three years post-kat; now returned to N.O. because that's where the jobs were.

I really, really like both places. I feel at home in both places. I sometimes end up defending both places to outsiders who don't know Jacque $iht about either one.

N.O. has po'boys, Detroit has Coneys
N.O. has gumbo, Detroit has lemon rice soup
N.O. has sno cones, Detroit has snow
N.O. has a river, Detroit has a river
N.O. has jazz, Detroit has jazz
N.O. has Big Shot soda, Detroit has Faygo
N.O. has Mississippi, Detroit has Canada [[sorry, couldn't resist
N.O. leveraged its overnight catastrophe into billions of dollars of federal construction assistance; see just one recent example here
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/mark...tent=D9DGA5QG4
Detroit got its own bailout, but the difference is that in N.O. the bucks are going into infrastructure in the city itself, while in Detroit the $$$ went to corporations to stimulate car production in places which usually weren't named Detroit.

[O-Dawg]

Pre-Kat parts of N.O. were sparsely populated, but they were populated, while relatively few neighborhoods were densely populated.

Post Kat entire regions of N.O. are simply empty and have returned to what would be called prairie in Detroit; but other parts of the city, those that either didn't flood or didn't flood badly, have become more densely populated than before.

I dont think it is either. It lost a HUGE population when Katrina hit.

[O-Dawg]

The Culture of New Orleans is basically comfortable with androgyny and having fun with gender bending. I have a hard time imagining an event like this taking place in Detroit, especially not on the scale being talked about here;

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2...ses_to_ru.html

[jjw]

Lake Pontchatrain-Lake St. Clair
gumbo-city chicken
savored French heritage-ignored French heritage
beignets-donuts
Mississippi R-Detroit R
French Quarter-Greektown
City Park-Palmer Park
Audabon Aquarium-Belle Isle Aquarium
above ground burial-below ground burial
joyous funeral-sober funeral
Fort Pike-Fort Wayne
streetcars-People Mover
growing in population at this time-decreasing in population at this time
pedestrians-no pedestrians
City of New Orleans, Crescent, Sunset Limited-Wolverine
I-10, I-90-to many to mention
French Market, Crescent City Market-Eastern Market
Andouille-Kielbasa
ocean seafood-lake seafood
shotguns-bungalows
Garden District-Indian Village
balconies-porches
Caribbean-Canada
St Louis-Mariners

[jjw]

Oh-one more:
New Orleans-no shrine to gigantic tires and Detroit; well-you know!

[jjw]

Louis Armstrong-Joe Louis

[Ed Golick]

Both cities had Morgus the Magnificent.

[Susan Messer]

Both cities have soul.

[Whitehouse]

They have Jazz, we had Motown....
They have French Quarter, we have Greek town.

[sumas]

I am not witty as most people on this board but I say both cities have soul and a shared French history.

[O-Dawg]

Both cities had Morgus the Magnificent.

^^^ This. Gotta be one of the most obscure TV trivia facts ever. Good find, Ed.

[Lowell]

They know what Superbowl rings look like, we don't.

Very happy for Nawlins!

[exmotowner]

They have the Saints and Detroit has ..... well New Orleans still has the Saints.

[tetsua]

They have the French Quarter - We have "can you spare a quarter?"

This is funny stuff

[Danny]

New Orleans Saints won their first Super Bowl- Detroit Lions never went or won a Super Bowl.

[smogboy]

I love it....we need to laugh at ourselves once in a while.

Sometimes that's all we can do.