One has to really wonder if someone who promotes themselves stating they are a life long resident of a particular area if that makes them more qualified than the other person....I see that statement over used coast to coast.
You see...being a lifelong resident just says one never took the effort to live anywhere else, and your frame of reference is limited to living / working in the same place your entire life.
About myself, I was born north across the pond, then went south, then back north finally to the place I call home...New Orleans... the essence of the best of all places across all the ponds I crossed in my lifetime. With the ability and legalities to live and work anywhere I want on this glorious planet, I chose New Orleans. I chose a place I came to initially as a reprieve from a failed marriage...a place to come to for a few years just to "defrost my brain" from Corporate shaninigans...corporate warmongers throwing my mind like a football during the last superbowl game from state to state, country to country.
So since 1991 I chose to spend these precious years of my life in a place with a soul...and people that love...love to socialize, love to live life to the fullest...laugh death away with the brush of an arm with a hankerchief extension blowing in the winds...winds full of the sound of trumpets on any random day of the week.
If you have ever lived, or spent an extensive period of time in mountains...Tibet, Bolivia...remote areas...where the air and life are thin...one gets to appreciate these places...and the passion of life when you return to your place, New Orleans. For in brief mountain moments...time and space mean nothing. So one's self promotion based on time and space means nothing.
The number of times one used the bathroom in a particular place over a particular time is meaningless. One spends the first 24 years of your life laying a foundation of knowledge that will help define what else you do not know for the rest of your life....then you can begin to understand and interpret the soul of yourself and a place. At the end of the day, it is one's overall life and how you view and treat others...how one understands and listens to others is all that matters.
As a Realtor...it is not how long you are in a place, but how you can help a customer today. What you knew yesterday is worthless for the deal at hand today.
The world post-Katrina will never be the world it once was ever again. The Mexican restaurants are not going away. The Honduran that you are not sure is legal or illegal, but does one heck of a job doing sheetrock? They are here to stay. The monstor houses Uptown with 2 or 3 people living in them? Call them mostly future C's and C's...future Corporate rentals and Condos...for when one is on your 4th wife/husband you don't need 20,000 SF anymore.
The new money...they are rebuilding...100 units at a time. By the time the average Realtor figures out the changes...if they have not travelled and seen what happens in a place like this...they will be finding themselves another occupation and reputation.
So the lifelong resident theory is a theory...a theory based more on fiction than fact. The facts belong to those that continue to strive for excellence through a knowledge base of continually walking, running, driving the same neighbourhoods..week after week..., the facts versus fiction belong to being one of the people rebuilding this glorious home we call New Orleans.
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