What is the current state of New Orleans?

I was wondering if anybody knew what the current state of New Orleans is? I want to go to Tulane University, but if the city is still shot I kind of don't want to live there. I've always wanted to go to New Orleans, but now it seems pointless.

OK I was talking about condition when I said "state" . I know this whole synonyms thing is difficult to comprehend for some of you. So go condition bad alright?

There has been HUGE progress in the past 2 years and New Orleans is not "still shot".

NOLA is one of the world's special places with an ambience unique in North America, and remains so even after Katrina devastated it in 2005.

Katrina flooded about 80% of New Orleans with salt water, and the water stayed for almost a month. Much of the city is still struggling to recover and all you have to do to see devastation is drive around. It will take years for NOLA to fully recover from Katrina.

However, the parts of the city that tourists usually visit were not flooded. It's not a coincidence - the French Quarter and other old parts of the city were built on relatively high ground and only suffered wind damage from Katrina. Almost all of the damage has been repaired and you have to look closely in the FQ and city center to see that Katrina happened at all.

Part of Tulane's campus flooded, but the damage has been repaired. The neighborhoods around Tulane have also recovered.

You can drink the water, the electricity & phones work, and services like the post office, hospitals, schools, and police/fire/EMS are operating. Restaurants, stores and shopping centers are open.

Municipal services like street cleaning & trash collection collapsed after Katrina. Those services were fully restored in late 2006 and it is no longer an issue.

Regarding crime, questions like yours tend to attract highly negative "answers" from people who do not live here and who have little or no idea what they are talking about. Use the same common sense necessary in every major city in the world and there is little chance you will be a victim of anything except a need to visit the gym.

Note that the City of New Orleans is only part of the greater New Orleans area. The GNO area had a population of about 1,400,000 before Katrina and is estimated at about 1,200,000 now (July, 2007). The absent 200,000 are mostly from the City of New Orleans and the parishes of Plaquemines and Saint Bernard, which were the worst-flooded parts of the metro area. Jefferson Parish - just to the west of the City - suffered only minor flooding and has fully recovered.

You should visit and see for yourself.

Good luck!

New Orleans is in the Same state it's always been in --LOUISIANA.

I think they have managed to fix it up a little but i think it's a bit bad still.

About 1/2 of what it used to be. People are suppose to be getting some of the money from the feds that was promised to them over 2 years ago to help them rebuild.