It means-we know we live in a deteriorating, crime ridden, dangerous pest-hole, but as long as we can make money by denying it and luring gullible tourists with cash here, it’s all good. There is also a ‘fantasy factor’ at work- young, left-coast, ‘artsy’ types are flocking to the ‘funky’ areas-and getting robbed, assaulted and killed with impunity. Still, they believe their very presence will ‘lift’ the area into a hip urban paradise. Talk about fatally stupid! Now lets see if this guy’s wife and kiddies STAY in the Lower 9. If they do- they are suicidal.
Remember that idealistic white girl from San Francisco who showed up in NOLA a few years back? She was some kind of activist. She lasted something like 24 or so hours before they found her body. Case is still unsolved. She was last seen alive peddling away from a club or bar on her bike