I think it makes a lot of sense to link the devastation of a country in one time to the devastation in another. Circumstances are different in all kinds of ways, but the parallels are there. Communities are broken, families torn apart.

I wasn't even saying that it was unlikely that the lass would have wanted to go to Florida, even without being driven to it by desperation, just that it's a crazy choice to make, Miami (or wherever it was) for Edinburgh. Now the other way round, that would make sense.