Faubourg Marigny: Creole Character Just Outside the Quarter
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Immediately downriver from the French Quarter, the Faubourg Marigny is where New Orleans gets a little looser, a little more colorful, and a lot more interesting. One of the oldest faubourgs — the French term for suburb — in the city, the Marigny has been a bohemian enclave, a music hub, and a tight-knit residential neighborhood all at once for decades. For people ready to nest in New Orleans, it offers something genuinely hard to replicate: French Quarter proximity without French Quarter chaos.