New Orleans Apartment Blog

One of the best places you can live!

Who wouldn’t want to live in one of the top 100 communities in America? Now, whether you choose an attractive 1st Lake community on the Southshore or the Northshore in the New Orleans area, you can live in one of the best places in America. At 1st Lake we have more apartments in award winning Metairie, LA than any other apartment firm, and we have apartments in Mandeville, LA too, another top 100 city.

Relocate America, a large relocation firm and website, chose Metairie as a top American city out of over 1800 nominations. Criteria included quality of life issues like the environment, educational and employment opportunities, crime rates, recreational activities, and housing options. And if you don’t mind us saying so, a 1st Lake apartment community is one of the best of those housing options.

Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, proudly noted the honor by declaring the team effort that goes into making Metairie such a great place to live. He exclaimed that it was the partnership between Parish government, the Parish Sheriff’s Department, the Jefferson Parish School System, and the Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission that made this award possible.

Relocate America is in the business of helping people and companies find the top places in America for a move. By seeking out places like Metairie, they know they are providing the best advice for their clients and website users. Key factors in their selections included future growth, the ability to rebound from the current recession, local government, business leaders, and visionaries in the areas of economies, housing, and the environment.

And Metairie made the grade. So for an A Plus city and an A Plus apartment community, you can’t go wrong with a 1st Lake home in Metairie, or for that matter in any of the fine locations where you find 1st Lake.