Talk:Ba Sing Se/@comment-2217546-20120119200938

After the War, I can imagine Ba Sing Se's Lowe Ring as a failing area with many empty apartments, houses, and business. I think of it this way because most of the refugees will return home leaving their housing vacant.

Now for my evidence to support the theory that businesses will leave. Refugees were not necessarily poor, just displaced. They were automatically placed in the Lowe Ring. Imagine many retailers filling the markets to serve the refugees. When these refugees leave, not only are there less consumers, but the Lower Ring will be populated with only those who were there before; the poorest of the city. The shops will not have enough business to sustain themselves, and therefore they will leave, vacating their previous location.

In other words, the Lower Ring's future doesn't look too bright.