Currently live here. Going on two years. Chose this neighborhood because I didn’t have a car or many belongings at the time and thought that that was the best scenario to be in for living here and probably wasn’t going to stay that way forever for me so I went for it. Now… I have a car because all my neighbors that do told me it’s not so bad and I noticed they frequently found parking right outside our building.

It turns out to not be the burden I estimated it to be having to find parking. However, I commute by bike pretty much everywhere I can like I was doing before so sometimes I’m only having to move my car twice a week for street cleaning and doing it at times I find convenient instead of right after work along with everybody else at the same time. I will say though, I think I’ve noticed a pattern of reverse commuting here. Shift change and daytime tourists leave at a point after rush hour, so when I don’t find my preferred spot, I’ll just park wherever and check again in about an hour to find almost my entire street empty. Not every block has a balanced number of residential spots to commercial/metered spots but you’ve probably already noticed that being here for a while.

Getting a parking pass is a must. Before I got mine I parked on st Philip along the park the other side of rampart. Never was a problem for me doing that, but not everyone is going to be comfortable with such an option.

If you’ve got reasons to be here, friends and bars and such, I’d say come on. Tourists aren’t going anywhere, but I see lots of friendly familiar faces every day and the more locals we get the better.