Quote: (03-01-2013 03:04 PM)BurnFirst Wrote:
G- long story short, my iPhone got pickpocketed and when I tracked it down and tried to get it back I got sliced in the forehead from someone I didn't even see coming, and had to go to the hospital for stitches. Sure that could have happened a lot of places, but every single day someone tried to rip off or hustle us. I can handle myself in a hostile environment but that's not what I went there expecting; it was much worse than last time I was there. Granted that was a long time ago.
Don't get me wrong I had a lot of fun and met a lot of great people too but I'm not in a hurry to go back.
Treat NOLA like any central/south american city.
+ friendly people, good food, great partying, loose tourist women
- poor, lots of crime, crooked cops, lots of hustlers looking for tourists
I've met a few people who got iphones stolen on bourbon while they were checking their texts. Someone has a running start behind them, grabs it out their hands and keeps running.