Originally Posted by
dharder
Doesn't that just add to the infrastructure problems, the job shortage, housing shortage issues, etc?
Daniela
As mentioned above, it's a balance thing. For many you're right, it's going to be tough to move there. More population will place more strain on the road, power, water, eductation, healthcare and communications networks. Accomodation will be in short supply and so rents will be high, and ultimately will mean that at some point there will be people who are unable to find suitable accomodation somewhere in the poulation chain. In the other hand, the region will need people with all manner of skills, clearly structural engineers, geologists, but councillors, electricians, surveyors, truck drivers, and the hundreds of other vocations that need to secure, clear and rebuild. And those people will have the same everyday needs, so the shops will still be needed to feed and clothe the population. And the region needs the taxes from those people all the more.
You're right that they don't need people arriving and putting pressure on the region today, but there will be the need for a managed re-population in teh coming months and years.