I’ve been back home in New Orleans for a few months after being gone for the past nine years.
You’d expect some things to be a bit different. New leadership at the City Council, a new Governor, Chief of Police, and a new Mayor.
Perhaps some businesses and some established businesses had now shut their doors.
These are things that you’d expect after nearly a decade in any major city in the U.S.
However, there are changes that I’d never in a million years expected in New Orleans.
Known as a city that never sleeps, where there’s always an event or somewhere to celebrate and party, is no longer.
In my early adult years, the social scene was incredible.
There were many nightclubs, some legendary. Whispers, Discovery, A Touch of Class, Prime Example, Nexus, Secrets, and Atlantis were tops.
Hurricane Katrina was a huge blow, and the city has yet to fully recover. Unfortunately, as of now, the social scene is dead.
Outside of a few small bars and strip clubs, there’s absolutely nothing to do. There is nowhere to go in New Orleans.
A longtime buddy of mine, Mike, took me out to a few struggling spots to see for myself. Even on the weekends, there weren’t even more than ten people in any of them. I wasn’t only disappointed, it was a gutpunch.
Unless I’m willing to hang out in the French Quarter, which is basically a tourist trap, I’ll have to go out of town for a proper night out.
I guess I’d better start planning weekend getaways or perhaps, at some point, relocating.
Creole Gaudet
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