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April 2nd, 2012

Whether you are moving to New Orleans for the first time or moving back to the city, chances are you will have to make a few adjustments in lifestyle. For me, after living in Washington, DC, the hardest part of reintegrating into NOLA culture was the transportation. In DC, I had a love affair with the public transit systems, an area where NOLA has always severely slacked. Shifting from a no-car-necessary city back to the drive-at-your-own-risk New Orleans streets left me longing for New Orleans to have a metro of its own and over two years later I still resent having to use a car to get around the city.

In New Orleans, the streetcars serve only to add to the ambiance of the antiquated city, the bus system is less than accessible and/or navigable and the system as a whole…

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