Re: Rick, Michonne, & OTA - cleaning up the mess
They pretty much had no option but to make it. Michonne was not the quitting type. She'd walked away from situations she knew were dangerous, after attempting to take who she cared about with her. After Mike and Andre were gone, and Andrea died, it would've been easy to walk away, to just go and not come back. But these were her people now, and they didn't give up.
"Everything starts off unknown." At the beginning, the outbreak was unknown. What would become of their world was unknown. Now it almost seemed hard to remember what it had been like before. "This will be no different."
Even if they don't settle, even if it doesn't get easy, they're already learning how to deal with things, as a group, as a town, as allies. That was something at least.