To rebuild or not?

[Chez Daja]

The problem with New Orleans is that there was so much to rebuild that it all couldn't really be done within a 2-3 year span without crippling any budgets or making taxes stupidly high.

Yeah, and that's the exact reason I would've left after Katrina. Just imagine getting your life back on track and having it completely slaughtered two or three, or four years later.

If your home was destroyed in a natural disaster, would you rebuild in that same location or move on? If you like, you can differentiate between two types, freak occurrences (think the 2004 Indonesian tsunami) and historically common (hurricanes in the Gulf Coast). Take into consideration that this area hit would have been the only place you've ever known, and you family has known.

I think for Indonesia, it is a little different. It's much harder to relocate away from the danger zone because the land there is much less than that of America. Not to mention that it is harder to migrate from one country to another, unless you want to do it illegally.....which, in most cases isn't worth it anyway.