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Originally Posted by ratbastid
It is sort of hard for us flatlanders to grasp, isn't it? I can't really explain it either, except to say that most of NO was financially incapable of getting themselves out. That and, if you've ever visited the city, it has certain charms that would tend to offset the risks.
Besides, it had always been below sea level, and it had never been a serious problem before right?
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And the Dutch? At the heights of the Dutch Empire, they had huge flood problems and yet, they were still able to survive as a empire that colonized some islands in Americas, the Indies, etc. Why would the dutch people still live in a flatland that often had flooding problem that amount up to more sevre than New Orleans?
I suppose the better question would be this, How did the Dutch learn to survive?