They'd rather live in health conditions that would make a billy-goat puke, than walk 5/10/15 miles to get away from it? And this is before the shootings, knifings, rapes, robberies, beatings and all the other Mardi Gras fun of good ol' NOLA???
Again, foreign to my thinking thankfully.
Foreign to my thinking also. But you and I aren't suffering from life long poverty, distrust of outsiders, health conditions, lack of education and wits, caring for small children, caring for sick relatives, knowing you live in a crime ridden area as it is, etc. If walking 10 miles for help required 2 of those miles to go through the ghetto of Newark, NJ(all I could run at full speed safely without winding or tripping myself), or walking more than 1 mile moving my bedridden grandfather(triple bypass and stent surgery) and non ambulatory grandmother, I would stay put also.