Would you rather live in Indianapolis or New Orleans?

[Badger]

New orleans has so much going for it, but the crime and economy are so bad. I'll still give it the edge by a nose, though.

[Badger]

How is Indianapolis dull?

It's the home of DUDE FEST for crying out loud.

You just answered your own question.

[Badger]

It's weird to hear people describe the city where I've had the most fun of my life as "dull".

We don't play Ingress and we don't go to Dudefest.  It's as simple as that.

This x 10. Besides, man, even you have to acknowledge from the standpoint of a 1Dudefest attendee that it's prescence in Indy one weekend a year makes only a passing case for living there the other 51 every year.

[Badger]

Having lived in New Orleans for three years, I think most of you guys are vastly overstating the city's problem with crime. Memphis might have a different experience but I drunkenly walked home through quite a few "bad" neighborhoods and was never robbed or harmed in any way.

I heard a report on NPR just the other week indicating it's gotten damn near epidemic around the French Quarter over the last several months. Sounds like things have changed for the worse and/or you got lucky.