Given the current situation, that they chose to leave is moot, divisive, and agitating. That every conservative I see or know is concentrating their energies on this issue is telling. I'm generally a conservative btw.

People will always stay and they will always need helped. And they deserve it. Any implication otherwise is ridiculous.

I didn't see hundreds of buses ready to take people out of the city nor was it mandatory that they left. I believe this has already been mentioned. So, how many left and how many chose to stay? We have no idea. Which makes this line of discussion even further moot.