Would you move back?
 

If you lived in New Orleans and your home was destroyed, would you move back when the area is ready to be inhabited?

Re: Would you move back?
 

this is a dumb poll.

Re: Would you move back?
 

I am dumb. And I have been wondering how many people may actually move back.

Re: Would you move back?
 

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this is a dumb poll.

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Woohoo I finally agree with Voltron!

Re: Would you move back?
 

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this is a dumb poll.

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-do you own your house/land?
-do you have extended family in NO?
-are you married w/ kids in school and what is your spouse's opinion?
-do you have a job to go back to?

Re: Would you move back?
 

My point is this is a dumb poll because NONE of us know this feeling of losing everything we have because of Katrina. It's IMPOSSIBLE to know what we would do because we don't know how the people are feeling. It's a sensation impossible to re-create. Therefore, it's a dumb poll.

Re: Would you move back?
 

less negative follow up:

its a good question, but not as a poll. there are a ton of factors to talk about as well.

Re: Would you move back?
 

My thought is more that the city has always been, and will always be, 20+ feet below sea level and very susceptible to natural catastrophe. I don't think many who lived there really understood the physical vulnerability of the landscape.

Now that they know, would it prevent them from returning?

Re: Would you move back?
 

Most of the 20% of the people who didn't evacuate and were trapped will likely not come back. They are too poor, have nothing to come back to, and suffered too much psychological trauma to go back. I imagine many of the 80% who evacuated will come back if they have insurance or some other means of rebuilding. Biloxi was the hardest hit area and all available real estate has already been sold. People want to live near the ocean even if it kills them.

Personally, I wouldn't go back because I wouldn't want to live in a place where my house could possibly be destroyed every year.

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My thought is more that the city has always been, and will always be, 20+ feet below sea level and very susceptible to natural catastrophe. I don't think many who lived there really understood the physical vulnerability of the landscape.


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I think a lot of people did know the danger - there are songs about it for crying out loud. Some just acted a little like 18 yer old boys and thought they were invincible.

Yes, I think I'd move back. I think it will be safer after the reconstruction and I think the city has so much to offer. Of course that would depend on how settled I was elsewhere...

You know, I live in Vegas. Every summer we have flash floods and usually someone dies. We're getting nuclear waste dumped in our backyard. If we had just a couple weeks without power during the summer thousands of people would die from heat exhaustion. But I'm not going to move any time soon. Right now, this is where my heart is.