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Originally Posted by Feanor
Look, everyone comes to America to build a city ON a hill. Only the French come and build a city UNDER a hill. So that every time it rains they get flooded. Well whatever they're French..... then the U.S. goes and buys it (buyer beware I guess, but if you're going to buy something French you should have the brains to check it out ahead of time) and now you guys are footing the bill for the Frenchness of la France. Any surprises? Come on who didn't see it coming?
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The original New Orleans was not built below sea level. The old town (Bourbon St. etc) largely survived Katrina intact. It's the new development that had problems.
I don't understand why people build there. It's not like we're short on land. Move back a few miles and you get great dry land.