Don_t completely ignore the City in your search for suburbia. Most of Algiers (which didn_t flood) has typical a USA suburban environment (housing _ schools) with no more and maybe fewer problems than you find in the actual suburbs.
Other desirable neighborhoods in New Orleans are in the French Quarter area, Warehouse District, most of _Uptown_, the Broadmoor area, around Bayou Saint John _ City Park, Lakeview, and the Lakefront. Lakeview flooded badly and is recovering, but it will be a while before that is complete. The other areas in the list either didn_t flood or have recovered.
New Orleans is geographically quite large and commuting times from the suburbs to the city center can be an issue, even though you say you don_t mind. I recommend you try to live reasonably close to work/school - and you tend to get what you pay for.
Note that the news media deliberately sensationalizes incidents of violent crime and does so in a way that makes the average citizen afraid. Reality is that almost 98% of shootings _ murders occur within the illegal drug community and the other 2% are _domestic_ incidents. That doesn_t make the crimes OK, but the average resident (or tourist) doesn_t have to worry about it. New Orleans is not even in the ��top 25 most dangerous cities��:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/30/real_est��
Be sure to grab a snowball at Sal_s on Metairie Road, no matter where you eventually move to.
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