Engaging, fluently-written work of narrative sociology, based on in-depth interviews with 30+ affluent mothers in an aspirational urban neighbourhood in Houston, Texas. Kimbro seeks an answer to why, despite everything they've been through, a majority of the mothers interviewed decided to remain in this community, despite its clear vulnerabilities. Accessible to a more general readership, without sacrificing academic rigour, and a useful insight into the social 'stickiness' of place, and how natural disasters (and, by extension, climate change) are experienced along intersecting axes of wealth, class, and gender.