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Metairie, LA
Metairie sits directly adjacent to New Orleans along the higher, more flood-resistant ridge of land that gives the area its name — "metairie" derives from a French term for a sharecropping arrangement once common on the plantations that occupied the land before suburban development took over in the 20th century. The community saw a substantial population influx after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, as many New Orleans residents whose homes had flooded relocated to Metairie's comparatively higher ground, accelerating growth trends that had already been building in the unincorporated Jefferson Parish suburb for decades. Lakeside Shopping Center, one of the larger regional malls in the greater New Orleans area, anchors a substantial commercial corridor along Veterans Memorial Boulevard that's made Metairie a significant retail destination for the entire metro area, not just its own residents. Metairie's combination of higher, less flood-prone ground relative to much of New Orleans proper, a substantial post-Katrina population influx, and significant regional retail development has made it the largest and most consistently populous suburb anywhere in the greater New Orleans metropolitan area.
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Slidell, LA
Slidell sits at the eastern end of Lake Pontchartrain's north shore, close to the Mississippi state line, and its position along Interstate 10 and Interstate 12 has made it a significant transportation crossroads for traffic moving between New Orleans, the Gulf Coast, and points further east. The city's Olde Towne Slidell historic district has preserved a walkable cluster of early-20th-century commercial buildings along Erlanger Street, giving the city a small-town downtown core distinct from its newer highway-corridor commercial development. Slidell was significantly impacted by Hurricane Katrina's storm surge in 2005, with substantial flooding across parts of the city, and its recovery and subsequent growth in the years since have made it one of the more closely watched examples of north shore rebuilding and continued suburban expansion in the broader New Orleans metro area. Slidell's combination of its position as a major interstate transportation crossroads, a preserved small-town historic downtown in Olde Towne, and its post-Katrina recovery and growth has made it one of the larger and more strategically positioned suburbs anywhere on Lake Pontchartrain's north shore.
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