Speaking of living places, here is a strong argument for why New Orleans should be rebuilt, and why I should live there:

What It Means

That is exactly the kind of thing I’ve been going on about to everybody lately. Living life instead of preparing against the day it arrives. What a radical idea.

“Everyplace else in America, Clear Channel has commodified our music, McDonald’s has commodified our food, and Disney has commodified our fantasies,” he said. “None of that has taken hold in New Orleans.” In the speedy, future-oriented, hyper-productive, and globalized twenty-first century, New Orleans’s refusal to sacrifice the pleasures of the moment amounts to a life style of civil disobedience.

Yeah, that too.