What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to briggs and a look at the
big easy new Orleans in case you don't know new Orleans is right here in the state of Louisiana
not too far from the border of Mississippi where the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico meet
new Orleans is best known for mardi gras and the french quarter but there is so much more
to this city with history and culture around every corner let's take a look
the landmass that would become the city of New Orleans was formed around 2200 bc
when the Mississippi river deposited sand and silt creating a delta region
before Europeans colonized the settlement the area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least
1300 years now this city's been around a long time it was actually founded in 1718 by french
colonists they celebrate this on May 7th but the actual date is really unknown they just know it
was around 1718. at first the community was a trading camp before being transformed into a
rectangle and fortified community which is now known as the french quarter the french quarter is
where bourbon street is and where most the mardi gras stuff goes on and that's what most people
that have never visited new orleans or don't know much about new orleans they think that's what the
city is just the french quarter that's all they know there's so much to this city new orleans
has changed hands a few times first it was in french control and then after the seven years war
with britain they lost control of it and it was given to the spanish that was in the 1760s when
the spanish governor showed up to take control of new orleans the german and french settlers chased
him out of town in a bloodless rebellion lisa was bloodless for a while because the spanish returned
and executed the ringleaders of this rebellion during the american revolution it was an
important hub of transportation for the american revolutionaries a lot of stuff was smuggled up the
mississippi river to arm and supply the american revolutionaries new orleans remained under spanish
control until 1803 when it reverted briefly to french rule nearly all of the 18th century
buildings of the french quarter are still standing dating back to the spanish period eventually the
united states took over new orleans as part of the louisiana purchase on january 8 1815
they had the battle of new orleans here this was all part of the war of 1812 against the british
general andrew jackson along with the us navy what there was of it a bunch of militiamen
a bunch of farmers some kentucky frontiersmen and a bunch of pirates defeated the british
who were considered to be better trained and better equipped fun fact about that the treaty
that kind of would have ended things was signed on december 24th 1814 just a couple weeks prior
but the forces there didn't know about it yet technically they still could have but there was
a treaty and most militaries would kind of stand down while they work out all the finer details
but it wasn't ratified by both countries till february of 1815. this whole video could be done
about the history of new orleans but we're going to move on i'll talk about other things later on
when the louisiana purchase went down there was roughly 13 to 15 000 people living in new orleans
during the war of 1812 when they had that big battle with andrew jackson the battle in new
orleans there was less than 25 000 people living there and new orleans continued to grow at least
in double-digit percentage points every single census until the 1970 census where they actually
lost 5.4 percent of their population and that trend continued until just this last census
in 2020 where they gained again for the first time since the 1960 census where they gained
11.7 percent at the 2020 census new orleans had about 382 000 residents the entire metro area has
just under 1.3 million residents right now so they might be on the upswing again
i say might because if another hurricane rips through there they're going to start losing
population again just like they did in 2005 when hurricane katrina came through that hurricane
flooded 80 percent of the city and killed about 1800 people so many people were displaced that
it caused a population decline of over 50 percent and it caused about 125 billion dollars in damages
new orleans began as a trading post and a smuggling operation apparently with pirates
and everything these days it's still a crucial transportation hub and distribution center for
waterborne commerce as they say no pirates anymore at least i hope not i mean we still
have pirates in the world but they're no fun not like the old pirates where they're making people
walk the plank and carrying swords and eye patches and peg legs that's no fun no one flies the jolly
roger anymore this new generation of pirates just don't honor the old traditions of piratin
i would be curious to find out when the last time a ship was boarded by a guy with a peg leg
and maybe a hook for a hand new orleans operates one of the world's largest and busiest ports it
accounts for a significant portion of the nation's oil and petrochemical production the port itself
is the fifth largest in the u.s based on cargo volume 12th largest in the us on cargo value yes
there's a difference tourism plays a major role in the city's economy accounting for 5.5 billion
dollars during normal times i don't know what it's been during the pandemic i'm sure the number is a
little skewed but normally it's around 5.5 billion now there's a lot of major companies that are
headquartered in new orleans i'll tell you what was there at the end of 2021 i did one of these
videos about los angeles and like i think it was not los angeles but it's like two of the companies
left in the six months since i did that video so you got companies like rolls royce att ibm hera's
entertainment capital one popeye's chicken those all have some sort of headquarters there may not
be their major headquarters a lot of companies will have like their north american headquarters
and then their other one in your whatever federal agencies also employ a lot of the new orleans
residents along with some military facilities in the area for a long time there was like zero
jobs in new orleans i mean all the ones they had were taken and they weren't really filling any
positions but in the last few years that's kind of turned around and i think that plays a big role it
normally does and why people are moving back to new orleans why their population is growing again
now we get to neighborhoods and i always have to give this disclaimer when we look at the
neighborhoods we go by a livability score is this the absolute best neighborhood according to the
locals not normally is it the absolute worst neighborhood according to locals not normally
either we just go by the stats to kind of give people an idea what they're looking at the reason
we go by the stat is because everyone has their own opinion on what's the worst what's the best
and you could ask 100 different new orleans residents and they'll give you 100 different
answers on what's the best what's the worst things like that we also use the actual name that
a realtor might know the neighborhood by or you could find on google maps because people watching
this video they're learning about new orleans they're not from new orleans so they want to
be able to find it on a map alright here we go one of the best neighborhoods in new orleans is called
old aurora old aurora is in the algiers area of new orleans which is on the west
side of the mississippi river and this is not a bad place to live old aurora has two things that
normally indicate that a neighborhood is really really nice the first one is always waterfront
property and they have it the mississippi river flows right across old aurora and they have golf
courses in the area i don't play golf so i don't care but in all my research i've always found golf
courses surround the nicer neighborhoods in any city i shouldn't say any city you have places like
new york city where it's too crowded to really have golf courses around their nicer neighborhoods
but you get the idea you'll also find holy cross university in this neighborhood the stats here are
excellent they have a livability score of 85 their crime rate is 59 lower than new orleans average
and the cost of living is six percent lower than new orleans average so it's safe and it's cheap
how does that happen real estate prices are 24 lower than new orleans average and the median
household income is about 57 000 which is three percent higher than the national income that's a
whole bunch of numbers but here's the main one the median home value here is 148 000 that's about 19
lower than the national average and it's safe when you get to the worst neighborhoods
in new orleans one of the absolute worst is central city in new orleans that is
just west of the french quarter it's not a place you want to live they've got a livability score
of 57. their crime rate is 404 percent higher than the national average and that's 207 percent
higher than new orleans average they're knocking it out of the park when it comes to crime and to
take it a step further their violent crime rate is 653 percent higher than the national average
you have a one in six chance of becoming the victim of a crime while you're staying this area
but they do have a low-cost living that's actually 27 lower than new orleans average and their medium
household income almost 15 000 that's 73 lower than the national average i tell you about houses
but there's nothing here to talk about no i wouldn't move here i mean they do have some
homes for about a hundred nine thousand dollars that they'll probably let you have for a hundred
four thousand but that means you gotta remove the boarded up windows and any bodies that may
have expired inside sadly almost fourteen thousand people call this neighborhood home
when it comes to the stats that people look up when they're thinking about moving to a place
this is what they're looking at crime rate cost living and the typical home price the crime rate
in new orleans is 159 higher than the national average and their violent crime rate is 2 percent
higher than the national average property crime is 151 percent higher than the national average so
you're going to get your stuff stolen or you're going to get damaged if you live here long enough
you have a 1 in 16 chance becoming the victim of a crime throughout new orleans and their
year-over-year crime rate has risen by 13 their cost of living isn't horrible
it's actually 11 percent higher than the state average and it's only one percent higher than the
national average this is a major city and major cities are usually 30 40 50 up to 100 higher
than the national average their housing is four percent higher than the national average again
it can go much higher for a major city and their typical home price here is about 350 000
for a three bedroom two bath roughly 1500 square feet and it is a major city so those prices go way
up or you got some neighborhoods like we just talked about central city that go a lot lower
now in the times i've gone to new orleans about five of the places that i've eaten at
are no longer in existence so i'd like to tell you about them but they're not there so what's
the point one place that is still in existence that i love is mccarty's chicken and fixins
this place has been around since i'd say 2000. got great chicken and mac and cheese
really good mac and cheese i was hungry and been drinking with some friends most of the day i don't
know if that played part in it but this was really good mac and cheese i reached out to
one of our subscribers that i'm friendly with and asked them what's the best place they like to eat
in new orleans and they told me about a place called piece of meat you can get everything
from steaks chops ribs brisket everything i'm gonna eat there next time i go but if you're
visiting new orleans you gotta get some gumbo creole food's really good po boys jambalaya red
beans and rice new orleans is a foodie paradise i just haven't had a bunch of experience there
with the food at least not in recent years so i feel i gotta kind of skip this one a little bit
when it comes to tourism in new orleans you have to go to the french quarter that's
just like required if you go to new orleans and don't stop by the french quarter you've
done yourself a disservice most everything tourism centers around the french quarter and
bourbon street whether it's mardi gras or like voodoo tours they have there they have a 101
different types of tours there you could just pick one and have a great time the french quarter just
isn't for mardi gras and drinking and all that stuff it's the architecture the history
the dining options in my opinion though during festival the mardi gras festival it gets a little
too crowded and if you're not 21 to let's say 30 it might be a little too much for you they also
have the national world war ii museum the museum is divided into three sections the first section
is devoted to the war in the pacific another one is war in europe and then the other section is
aircraft of world war ii i thought that was really interesting you also have the st louis cathedral
which was built in 1794 it's known as the united states oldest cathedral that's had continuous use
when it comes to new orleans sports you got two main ones you've got the new
orleans saints american football team national football league they're great
go to the superdome see a game there it's like a party every single season doesn't matter if
they're doing good doesn't matter if they're doing bad these people will throw a party in the stands
then you have the new orleans pelicans and the nba they do okay i mean they're all right i'm
not a big basketball guy but pelicans are in the nba in new orleans they used to be the charlotte
hornets but apparently nobody liked the owner so nobody came to the games so he moved it to
new orleans for a while there they had to go to oklahoma city and play for two years
because of damage that was done to their arena during hurricane katrina they also have a rugby
team called the new orleans gold they have the new orleans hurricanes which is in the women's
football alliance and coming up this year the breakers are coming back in the usfl the usfl was
big in the 80s then they shut down and now they're coming back and the breakers was one of the teams
they had way back then well now they're starting it up in new orleans again back in the 80s when
the breakers were in the usfl were a thing they were in boston for a while then they
moved to portland oregon but we'll see if they last longer than the usfl did last time
when it comes to famous people new orleans has a lot to choose from and no matter who i say
i'm gonna get some uh comments about how come i didn't mention such and such but you got people
like bryant gumbel the sportscaster television personality richard simmons lee harvey oswalt
shot kennedy yeah he's from new orleans the old school musician and trumpet player bandleader
louis prima i always get a hard time because i don't mention any rappers or anything like
that it's just not something i know much about so i usually don't but i go through the list
of famous rappers from a place now and i pick one that has a little like lil at the beginning
their name and i just grab one and actually one i've heard of lil wayne's from new orleans his
real name is dwayne michael carter jr and when it comes to jazz players and instruments they play
i could do an hour long video on just these people alone there's so many different jazz singers
jazz musicians jazz drummers it's an insane amount i'd encourage you to go back to the like wikipedia
page and just look at all of them when it comes to sports one of the greatest running backs of all
time marshall falk is from new orleans the great receiver from the indianapolis colts reggie wayne
was born in new orleans so in conclusion i think new orleans is one of the best cities to visit in
the united states living there uh that's a little sketchy i mean they got a little more crime than
i'd like in a city i'd move to the people 90 of the time are wonderful it's just another
one those places where you've got 10 of the population working overtime to bring
a city down you will find great food southern hospitality and things to see in new orleans
but for someone like me the crime rate the humidity and the heat of the summer and the
possibility of a hurricane happening there again is what would make me not move there
all right everyone that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some
information of it now go out have a great day be nice to each other