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But when you look at how Haiti is 2 years after their quake you realise that we aren't really doing all that badly.  It makes me grateful that we live in a country whose government, however much I may dislike the current one, does actually try to get things moving.  At the very least we don't have to live with (many) piles of rubble lying around in the streets and what is there is fenced off.  Yes it's frustrating and yes it's depressing and yes we do have issues that are really hard to live with, and broken roads and buildings etc, but ... it could be worse.

However, I don't want to minimise what some people here are going through, so this blog shows a walk someone took through the red zone close to where I live. The kids' school is tucked in behind and between all these streets mentioned here.  I know many many people who live in these streets and in those houses (well, most of them used to live in those houses), and it's hard to live with.  Edit: explored the blog a little more and found this one of the streets immediately by our school.