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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
But you're talking about something happening in an extremely large, wealthy, fully developed, relatively stable country. Very few things that happen in the US (or many fully developed countries for that matter) are going to play out in a similar way in the majority of the developing world.
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I think the point stands. People who had to leave New Orleans in '05 for the foreseeable future or even permanently (and, importantly, who wouldn't have left in the first place had their city continued to be perfectly inhabitable) ended up mostly in places like Houston and Atlanta and Baton Rouge, etc. that were the closest options culturally, climatically, geographically.
I see no fundamental reason for this to not be the typical way such evacuations will take place in the future. If Shanghai and Mumbai ever get abandoned to rising seas (I really doubt it, FWIW), then the people will just be relocating to inland cities like Nanjing and Hyderabad, and so on.