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Posted on April 10 at 10:13 a.m.

Reality? Ours is rough. In just a few weeks after evacuating (before Katrina hit) to Houston, we realized that we New Orleanians would quickly wear out our welcome in Houston and other places where we clustered. We returned home to NOLA to a rental in October 2005. Being that we and everyone we knew and all our relatives had lost our homes & everything we ever had, rebuilding our family home was much more difficult than we expected. Nevertheless, we, and many of our neighbors, managed to return and rebuild our homes in Lakeview. It has been very difficult and we have been severely mistreated by LRA/RHP/OCD/ICF - all operating out of Baton Rouge with little apparent concern for citizens from New Orleans. Your most major corporation profited highly from our 'recovery' and gave us no lagniappe - i.e. most of our recovery money went to B.R.

I reckon the point of your article was to try to make New Orleanians feel bad. I guess you want to rub it in that we are disliked, have a lot of problems and many undamaged communities are benefiting as a result of our losses. I wish we had your gang and public education problems rather than our reality. BTW, it worked, I feel bad. I feel discouraged. I am further disenfranchised. People like you should lobby to force the succession of coastal Louisiana parishes.

Thanks. Your compassion is about what we expect from your community's representatives.

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