Perceived Value
Still dazed by Katrina (2005), the residents of New Orleans have showed incredible resilience recontructing (although partially) this city almost completely destroyed by the wind blown waters of Lake Pontchartrain. Those areas most severely devastated have recovered ever so slowly, but those closest to the heart and uptown of the city have become even more desireable after the storm than they were prior. The stately mansions of St. Charles Avenue and the Garden District have survived and as a result thrived in the Post - K world. For those looking to relocate with in the City of New Orleans today, these areas are characerized by their perceived value of withstanding the most destructive and deadly storm ever to hit the mainland of the United States.
There is little doubt by those still in and around this enchanted city that it will return to its mysterious and charming ways, but for now and possibly for the foreseeable future, it will be a much smaller, more intense and certainly as opportunistic environment as it ever was before. Some say the charm is in the people of New Orleans, some say in the grand mansions of the Garden District. I say the charm lies in the complex and deep relationships between those who chose to live in these magnificent examples of mankind’s architectural acheivements and these gems themselves. Even Mother Nature did not have the heart to destroy them, and by not doing so, attracted even more loving souls willing to take on the task of restoration at hand.
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