Wait til he realizes he has to walk up stairs to see the river

@clayed3311

3 ай бұрын

Everything is wrong in that city

@CynthiaNotG

3 ай бұрын

LMAO idk why that just made me laugh because I realized I never really quite noticed. Must have been all drinks. You’re so right 😂

@jasperdelange4748

3 ай бұрын

Isn't that normal? (Dutchie here)

@llallogen7380

3 ай бұрын

@@jasperdelange4748Most places are not as obviously below sea level as New Orleans is. Some are, but it is funny to look up in the French Quarter and see a boat pass by

@PerishingTar

3 ай бұрын

​@@jasperdelange4748we copy being under sea level from your country

Nothing is confusing because nobody goes to the Westbank accidentally… the signs before the bridge all say WESTBANK (despite going east) which is not a place a tourist wants to go lol.

@codymustafa5034

3 ай бұрын

The wets bank is the suburbs and working class neighborhoods what are you talking about lmao. You from texas huh

@AliciaTheTroonSlayer

3 ай бұрын

@@codymustafa5034That’s literally the point they made 🤦🏿‍♀️ Tourists don’t want to go to Gretna lmao.

@PaddyMacWorld

3 ай бұрын

The West Bank “Algiers Point” is exactly were I stayed when I visited New Orleans. Drank in the Old Point Bar a few nights. Great time.

@kaymillerfromTX

3 ай бұрын

@@PaddyMacWorld Oh yeah, Algiers is nice is nice and actually part of New Orleans. But people usually take the ferry across the river. I was referring to driving/directions, my bad.

@BoHror933

3 ай бұрын

It no confusing because at that point the river goes north so its natural for the banks to be in reverse

As someone who lives near New Orleans, and drives to it often. When you begin to break it down like this, yes it becomes confusing. But most people don't ever look into it like that. If you're in Gretna, or Terry Town (or just Generally on the West Bank). You just call it... The West Bank. And opposite goes for if you go into the City. If you go downtown, or any of the Wards, youre on the East Bank. One of those "Ignorance is bliss" moments.

@blakegoulds8313

Ай бұрын

That is why we in the military use the flow of the river as an orientation and then call it "left bank" and "right bank".

@JeanEDeaux

13 күн бұрын

Except for Algiers.

Here in Detroit, we look south into Canada.

@CABNoLimit

4 ай бұрын

🇨🇦🇺🇸

@rinkashikachi

3 ай бұрын

Ah, yes, those canadian southerners enjoying their stupid sun while we shiver in cold here

@evolv.e

3 ай бұрын

Where I lived in Washington state, I too could view Canada looking southward. Only one TV station on my rabbit ears was US, while the other 3 were Canadian

@tubro541

3 ай бұрын

In Windsor, Canada🇨🇦, people look North to Detroit, USA🇺🇲🙂

@tubro541

3 ай бұрын

​@@evolv.e Which gulf island?

I have lived in Nola my whole life. I’m 40 now. When I was around 7 I had a good sense of direction while driving around with my parents. For several years I believed South was towards the lake because I “figured it out” that when we would go to the West Bank on the GNO we were headed “West” 🤦🏻‍♂️Still messes with me occasionally.

@ljs5757

24 күн бұрын

Since you call it the gno or maybe you reference when you were a kid it was the gno now it's the crescent City connection and you mentioned driving West to get to the West Bank I guess you mean because it was the West Bank you thought you were driving West but if you're on the gno which is now called the crescent City connection you will be driving due East to get to the westbank ...😊not a criticism just a curiosity

@winstonho0805c

20 күн бұрын

I was born and raised in New Orleans, and when I was five, I thought the river was to the west and emptied into the lake. Someone finally gave me a map when I was about six...

This is why military uses left bank right bank. Using downstream travel as the reference

@christopherg2347

Ай бұрын

I heard they learned that lesson in WW2. Because most rivers in the US flow from north to south, many had issues when hitting a river that flowed north. So the neutral left/right is quicker. Of course, there are a few places where the river ocassionally changes direction. But that seems to be rare enough.

@KrisMeister

Ай бұрын

In French they do left and right bank as well.

The cardinal directions in New Orleans are towards the lake, towards the river, upriver, and downriver.

@elizabethclaiborne6461

3 ай бұрын

No, it’s uptown or downtown. You weren’t born here?

@eamonia

Ай бұрын

​@@elizabethclaiborne6461I wasn't born here and _I_ know that

@wcrandolph

Ай бұрын

And towards the lake.

@eamonia

Ай бұрын

@@wcrandolph Don't forget the river...

This is why us tow boaters reference it differently. We say (right/left) descending bank.

@deckape69

4 ай бұрын

104 is on tbe West Bank 105 is on the East Bank

@larsedik

3 ай бұрын

That is much more practical.

@tuvoca825

3 ай бұрын

That seems MORE confusing to me. 😂

@KirillTheBeast

3 ай бұрын

Anyone who's been near a river long enough calls them left or right banks. This has been the case in most of Europe since the late middle ages because navigable rivers as well as river crossings were extremely important at the time and people already knew rivers change their course over time.

@gujwdhufjijjpo9740

2 ай бұрын

That’s how it’s done where I live (Alaska). Cardinal directions are only used for the banks of lakes and islands.

In New Orleans, a person is either going Uptown, Downtown, Riverside, or Lakeside. Those are the 4 directions you need to know to get around.

@div_vinity

3 ай бұрын

and uptown is south of downtown 😂

@dabigsqueezy

3 ай бұрын

​@div_vinity right. It's down river.

@MinutemanOutdoors

3 ай бұрын

Literally nobody says lakeside.

@MinutemanOutdoors

3 ай бұрын

​@@div_vinityUptown is called uptown for 2 reasons. It technically sits at a slightly higher elevation than the rest of the city AND it was the area of the city where the wealthy lived.

@Polariti

3 ай бұрын

You mean River front and Lake front? Or did I just not get the memo?

That is why we in the military use the flow of the river as an orientation and then call it "left bank" and "right bank".

@genebillingsleyjr.9278

Ай бұрын

Wait, your left or my left?

The same thing happens in Minnesota 😂

@Bradinator

4 ай бұрын

West st paul!

@chefssaltybawlz

4 ай бұрын

Do people there say west and east bank? In New Orleans the highways signs literally say 90 Westbank rather than the cities on the other side lol

@MinnesotaMan

4 ай бұрын

@@chefssaltybawlz ha! it does not, however the city named West St. Paul is directly south of the city of St. Paul lmao

@chefssaltybawlz

4 ай бұрын

@@MinnesotaMan Haha yeah that one is wild, I assumed it was from the same French or Spanish folks who used “East/Westbank” haha. You’ll never hear “go north/south” in New Orleans either.

@BrightWendigo

3 ай бұрын

Mini-Soda

In France, we say left and right banks, from source to sea. It always works.

Go on the levee in the French quarter. The water is literally like 7 ft above the solid ground.

In french we get around this by calling river banks left or right (while pointing with the flow). For the missippi the west bank would be the right and east bank would be the left. Helps to know which side you're on even when the river turns like this.

@CynthiaNotG

3 ай бұрын

That’s interesting. Louisiana is the only state where land parcels are divided like the French and Québécois too. If you look at maps of Louisiana towns and Quebec towns specifically, they’re nearly identical. ⚜️

@karlehamel

3 ай бұрын

@@CynthiaNotG Yeah the land are divided in narrow strips along rivers mostly. It’s called the « seigneurial » system or lordship I think in English. This is to maximise water access for farming and transport. The south of Québec is pretty much all like this because it was settled a long ass time ago. As soon as you cross the border into Ontario or the US all the farmland are just squares as far as the eye can see. I get it.. it’s simple and easy to divide up the land but then some have water access but most dont and must rely on wells a lot more or have some sort of deal with their neighbours that do.

@CynthiaNotG

3 ай бұрын

@@karlehamel oh you taught me a new word. And yes! I’ve been to Quebec driving from New York it was so cool to see so I started studying a lot of French history in North America. Very cool stuff indeed.

@Balizabr

3 ай бұрын

We do the same in Russia

@Achill101

3 ай бұрын

We do the same in Germany. Left of the river Rhine is mostly west, and right of the Rhine mostly east.

In New Orleans "uptown" and "downtown" have real meaning. Uptown is up-river, and downtown is down river.

it can be confusing when the sun sets on the west bank

As I sit in Terrytown, ignorance is bliss. 😅

My parents find it weird when I use cardinal directions since they grew up using the lake and the river as reference points. I live in Jefferson Parish, so it works a lot better since the river is curved differently over here, and our arterial roads are better aligned with the compass grid

Like a Rainbow in Marerro, whhhhaaattt?

As a Londoner this makes sense to me, you can be standing due south of somone on the other side of the river and youre still in north London and theyre still in south london

@thejam-1041

Ай бұрын

Where? If you mean the Thames it doesn't go through north or south London

@TheMotlias

Ай бұрын

@@thejam-1041 the river doesnt go through north or south but theres north of the river and south of the river

@thejam-1041

Ай бұрын

@@TheMotlias I'm aware because I'm north of the river but south of people south of the river. But that's not north or south London 😂

In Michigan lots of people orient themselves around the lake. I've never been to New Orleans. Thanks.

Similar to how I-10 trends east and west but between Tucson and Phoenix it runs north and south.

if you think the nomenclature is wacked out, try driving around in the city, you can stay on a single road and all of a sudden you are on a different road and you never made a turn to get of that road..

Laissez les bons temps rouler?

Eastbank, weatbank and northshore, southshore. The four cardinal directions

It would be even more confusing if we switched it to the accurate compass settings If you drived a certain distance, you would "suddenly be on the opposite bank of the river" without crossing the river ...Now that's confusing

@user-pt1cz4ot1e

Ай бұрын

That’s actually the opposite. That’s what he’s saying he’s confused about, but the river is always slicing down the middle, it’s just turning, as rivers do. You still have the east and west sides, and no, you cannot get to the other side without crossing the river. That’s the entire point. 🤦🏼‍♀️

You just have to know where the other side is. Simply cross any of the bridges, & you’re on the West Bank. Don’t confuse it anymore than you’re showing it by looking at the map.

Maybe I’ve lived here for far too long, but it’s not confusing at all.

As a person born and raised in New Orleans i was offended at first but i am now going through an existential crisis realizing that everything he’s saying is geographically correct.

Try driving in New Orleans, the roads are designed to follow the river.

New Orleanians ALWAYS know where the river and lake are. Even in other cities we know where the big bodies of water are. Compass points are a construct. Water is real.

the river is flowing north and the "west bank" is east of you; mind blown.

That's why you should call it left bank and right bank 😅

Not confusing the Gaza Strip is across the crescent city connection West Bank of the river and New Orleans is called the crescent city because of the crescent shape of the river bank great channel

amazing content keep it going bro

No, it is not confusing. Embrace the moment you are seeing history alive in front of you. Embrace it.

we have this kind of bank naming silliness in St. Paul MN as well

That’s why all the criminals get away because they reported as heading east when they actually they’re heading the other way and the cops can’t catch them.

@juliangang2018

Ай бұрын

As someone from New Orleans, no, that's not why. Good shot though, it makes sense.

That's like an Abbott and Costello bit

It’s not that confusing, is it? It’s the west (river) BANK. It’s not the west “side”

Moved to New Orleans back in October 23. I have been trying to figure this out.

@JeanEDeaux

13 күн бұрын

The river simply curves around to be east of the city. Simple.

Don’t even get me started on the names of some of those streets

@bunnykiller

2 ай бұрын

really, I was looking for a sign that was supposed to say " Choppatooless"

I was stationed in nola for 4 years and I still don’t understand half the shit they got going on there 😂

67 years old born and raised still living in New Orleans and yes it's very confusing there's some good documentaries about how the city got started a lot of the streets are basically not in a grid pattern but in a best way I can describe it as a Japanese fan pattern following the river because you couldn't do it in a grid and be fair to everybody who founded the city and wanted riverfront property because that was where the money maker was shipping stuff up and down the river we also have a bus that goes to the cemeteries but sometimes freaks people out😮 and we have a street called South Claiborne that crosses South Carrollton and a 90°angle which kind of doesn't make sense I guess

There's a suburb in the Twin Cities metro called West St. Paul. It's southeast of St. Paul.

Do what we do here in Baghdad have a specific name for each bank

It really isn't confusing. When I moved here I was confused about it for like 15 seconds before I realized what the Mississippi River is.

This is why river banks are traditionally referred to as "right" and "left" instead of using compass points.

Just makes me think of when barney pretended to be a tourist from east westerson missouri

In New Orleans when traveling east on I-10 you're actually traveling north. New Orleans has major streets that run parallel and intersect. It's the "Crescent City."

I go upstairs backwards

There’s a freeway I take to college that has a section where the lanes have to twist a lot to pass through a city and the Northbound lane goes South and the Southbound lane goes North for about a mile.

That's why in France, the indications are Left Bank and Right Bank facing downstream.... Perhaps they could rename them?

From the river to the lake, new orleans will be free

Holy shit! That’s just so confusing- maybe they should switch it. Then it will only be confusing for the other 2,340 miles.

Wow, New Orleans and New York City, both, have a Canal Street! I mean, it makes sense since they're both coastal cities

That's why we use terms like 'River Left' and 'River Right'.

Always problems with anything called West Bank...

there are so many sharp turns in the Mississippi river that at various points as you had upstream or downstream, you will find yourself briefly reversing course. Which is why cruise ship travelers heading south to the Gulf of Mexico are often perplexed to see the New Orleans skyline growing closer - an hour after they’ve left the city.

It’s not confusing. You’re either on one side of the river or the other. It’s not like you’re going to accidentally cross it without knowing.

@norbertdx

2 ай бұрын

That's generally only because the last bridge that crosses the river is in nola , after that, it's only ferries. But if you're not paying attention to the many bridges you might think you've cross it.

I cross the same Bayou 3 times on my way home. Pretty much traveling in a straight line.

That's why it should only be the left and right banks

In Paris there is also a river, but they call their sides: East Bank and West Bank

In mumbai, the rly tracks divide the suburbs into east and the west. This terminology remains even when the railway runs west to east and then finally north to south 😂

The only thing that should get you turned around in New Orleans is common sense. If you ever find yourself coming into New Orleans, turn around and gtfo of that dumpster fire

The streets that cross Canal with the North/South designation do not run north/south, but East/West.

It’s either that or what is the West Bank for one stretch becomes the east bank of the other stretch

I am a native New Orleanian. And we don't use the compass to indicate direction. We use: Uptown, Downtown, Frontatown and Backatown.😂😂😂😂

Paris fixed this by referring to the banks of the Seine (a river flowing South-East to North-West) as Left Bank and Right Bank. Of course, because the city is also on a bend, that means the Right Bank is located both up and around the Left Bank.

Where I live in Northumberland, England, you can go either north, west or southwest to Scotland as the border runs diagonally between the two countries 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

also why West Saint Paul, MN is directly south of Saint Paul, and not anywhere close to being west of it. it’s just because the mississippi moves east/west through STP, so “west st. paul” even though being directly south, is on the west bank of the river

Messes with you when ur drunk driving 2am. Road signs say west...but you don't want to go to Westbank, so you go east to the west bank anyway

Ive lived in New Orleans for like 5 years now and have been confused about this FOR EVER. And not a single person here can explain it. Thank you so much. This answered a burning question ive had for a long time.

@user-pt1cz4ot1e

Ай бұрын

I’m sorry, but what are you talking about? 🤨 You’ve lived there 5 years, but can’t figure out that the river divides east to west, even if it turns a lot? I’m more confused by your all’s confusion.

This reminds me of the fun fact that it’s possible in Panama to go east from the Atlantic Ocean and end up in the Pacific Ocean.

I mean... The river, yeah, but the lake is north. That ain't changing anytime soon.

@bunnykiller

2 ай бұрын

there was a time during Katrina you couldnt tell the difference, it was ALL Lake

Yup lol I lived in Gretna, LA and the older people used sunrise and sunset to give directions lol

I have lived in metairie/kenner/new orleans my whole life and it has always confused the fuck outta me why we called it east/west bank even though it was north/south of the river bank

WE ALSO USE northshore and south shore relative to the lake

In Panama, the Pacific Ocean lies to the east of the Atlantic Ocean; and in downtown Detroit Michigan, the Canadian city of Windsor lies to the south. Check both out on a map; and get used to it.

The Panama canal has a similar orientation.

Similar issue in London's only cross river Borough. Richmond bridge crosses the thames in such a way that Richmond (Historically West Sheen) in South London requires you to go North East from East Twickenham in North London.

What I really want to know is who brought the ice age back on that satellite map?

Like the highways 90 and 94. Both are east west highways, but in Chicago, they converge into 1, and run north/south through the city

Why don't you call the two banks the left bank and the right bank, seen with the water flowing away from you? That sounds much easier and less confusing.

It is not confusing. You even stated in the beginning of the video how it works. Everyone around here understands it, and the Public high school graduation rate is barely 80%.

In New Orleans you give direction like toward the river or toward the lake and up river or down river

I use Lake Pontchartrain mostly but also the River as my compass. The lake is north or south of me and then I use Baton Rouge and Slidell exits for east and west.

I live close to this area and i recently asked a friend why on earth is it called the West Bank if it's east of the city.

when you grow up here it all makes so much sense

New Orleans has always been weird and strange and the strange and weird people that occupy it.

This is very common around the world. It’s why in some places there are lands that no country claims

If you accidentally end up on the Westbank, I assume you were driving with your eyes closed. If you accidentally cross the lake.. I don’t know what to think lol.

Just call it the left bank and the right bank.

Bro so confused I even know where am I

My wife is local to new orleans,and we recently moved here. This really confused me forever. I was continuously telling my wife" but im on the south side of the river! Not east or west.

Here in Alaska, we use the terms left bank and right bank. It’d be as if you’re floating down the river. North, South, West, and East banks only applies to lakes or islands.

This confuses you? Damn boi, youre remedial

North and South Bank would make more sense...

@hiruharii

Ай бұрын

a river only has two banks

Wait until he realizes there abunch of places in Louisiana where you can walk west into Mississippi

Right bank left bank in refinance to flow