<p>It seems that everyone has the same answer regarding safety: use common sense and don't walk around in the bad areas.
Basically, my question is, does it ever feel inconvenient or out of the way to constantly know if you are in a safe or dangerous area. Is there ever anything that lures Tulane students into shady areas, like clubs or bars. I want to be safe, but I don't like the idea of continuously thinking of my surroundings to make myself safe.</p>
<p>Well, the first point is that there are few schools in major metro areas that don’t have this issue. Tulane is no different than WUSTL, Vandy, Duke (not even a major metro area and there are crime issues in Durham), Columbia, Penn, Harvard etc. in this regard, and better off than many that I mentioned. The second point would be that, like any place you live for a reasonable period of time, you learn the good and bad areas pretty fast. So while I suppose one could say that having to think about this kind of issue at all is “inconvenient”, it is a reality that everyone deals with, and apparently pretty easily.</p>
<p>Current students will weigh in I am sure, but the fact is that students have a great time on a very regular basis, so it works for them. There are clubs and bars in good areas near campus and on Frenchman, which is well lit and well attended. I guess I am saying that I have not seen anyone here say that which you are concerned about has been an impediment to their experience at Tulane.</p>
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<p>You won’t. You’ll get used to living in New Orleans just as you’d get used to living in Atlanta or Nashville. </p>
<p>Every relatively big metro area has its ‘bad sides of town’ and it’s too easy to avoid them. I’ve lived in New Orleans my entire life and have loved all of my time here, and there are certain areas of town I’ve literally never stepped foot in, which says a lot seeing as New Orleans itself isn’t exactly the biggest city size wise. </p>
<p>My experience as a New Orleanian hasn’t been hindered a bit by ‘avoiding’ some areas. Though, I wouldn’t call it avoiding exactly…</p>
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Not really. All the bars or clubs you could ever need can be found by Tulane, which is a located in a noticeably nice area, or in the French Quarter, which is always full of tourists… This might sound a bit negative, but Tulane (and its next door neighbor Loyola University) is very much in its own little bubble, i.e., there is no real reason to ever purposely wander off into ‘shady’ areas.</p>
<p>When I first started telling people where my oldest would be going “away” to school I got those looks… you know, the “OMG I can’t believe you’re sending your daughter to the armpit of the world” looks. I live about 8 hours from her, and the only news we hear about New Orleans around here is negative.
Luckily, I have a friend who is from about an hour from there, so I wasn’t scared off by all the horror stories from people who actually know very little about New Orleans. </p>
<p>The truth is, it’s a beautiful place. Campus is amazing. I’m a small 5’4" white woman and I have never felt unsafe when there - including when I travel with my other children aged 8 and 10.<br>
The French Quarter is relative safe due to the sheer volume of people. Campus is in an area with multi-million dollar homes and an incredible park where a ton of people jog and hang out. It certainly isn’t like being in the ghetto of New Orleans. Since my daughter enrolled, I have enjoyed visiting and have taken in much of what New Orleans has to offer - at no time did I need to travel through a “ghetto” area to do any of it. You won’t have to be constantly on guard to stay out of the bad areas, just stick to the ones you know and don’t go looking for trouble and chances are, you won’t find it.</p>
<p>I feel my child is safer in New Orleans at Tulane than in Memphis, which is where her bestie went. That is just the “feeling” of an over-protective mother though, not a scientific fact.</p>
<p>On campus crime is pretty low at Tulane in comparison with many other city universities. The statistics are available from:
[The</a> Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool](<a href=“Campus Safety and Security”>Campus Safety and Security)</p>
<p>New Orleans (tragically) does seem to have a high crime rate- for example at least one murder per day. But the crime tends to take place away from the campus. You might check the newspaper at nola.com for more information.</p>
<p>I would also add that Tulane reports crimes within a 1-2 mile radius of the campus on their website. [Tulane</a> University - Crime Log](<a href=“http://tulane.edu/publicsafety/crimelog.cfm]Tulane”>http://tulane.edu/publicsafety/crimelog.cfm) You can see there is a column “OC” for “off campus”. Also you can Google to see a crime map for the New Orleans metro area, and that will show you how the vast majority of the violent crime takes place on the opposite side of the area, about 6-8 miles away I think.</p>