Where y'at? --I'm down in New Orleans, the Brooklyn of the South, to look at houses, listen to neighborhood stories and, of course, eat. I suspect I'll find, as Mike Miller did, that calling a city home isn't about architectural styles, climate, cuisine or even safety and job prospects, but about something less quantifiable but perhaps more essential: ya gotta believe.
Happy new year, everyone.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, but I love New Orleans. (They're not the same in my mind, either. NO is more like the Greenwich Village I enjoyed in my college years.)
My husband and I got married in NO and visited five times while he was stationed at Barksdale AFB in NW La. In honor of Mardi Gras, I posted a design-themed ode to New Orleans. In it, I included the garden where we wed, great Nola buildings and some pretty cool artists on Etsy:
http://jgkitchens.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-orleans-inspired-style-its-mardi.html
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