Metairie ( MET-ər-ee; French: Métairie [metɛʁi]) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States and is a major section of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area. Metairie is the largest community in Jefferson Parish and the fifth-largest CDP in the United States. It is an unincorporated area that would be Louisiana's fourth-largest city if it were incorporated. The zip codes that serve the community are 70001-70006.
Métairie is the French term for a small tenant farm which paid the landlord with a share of the produce, also known as sharecropping. In the 1760s, many of the original French farmers were tenants; after the Civil War, the majority of the community's inhabitants were sharecroppers until urbanization started in the 1910s.
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Because the people speaks they conversate and they show concern about others wellbeing
My husband needed help with his car,knocked on my neighbor's door,asked for a jump and he assisted him
It's age friendly because my car couldn't start one day,I knocked at my neighbor's door,he came out under the rain and gave me a jump.Also,I also take care of my neighbor's kids when am off duty and they have a party to attend
good area to reside and live in. Mixed age.