Why didn't civilians leave eastern Aleppo when Russia opened corridors?

The article presents proposed reasons, but what do the civilians there say?

Many kinds of tests show that wealthy Americans tend to have less empathy than the rest, for people that are having difficulties of any kind.

I wonder whether people who lack of empathy get richer, or wealth tends to induce less empathy, or both.

US citizens: call for removing obsolete dams on the lower Snake river to help wild salmon survive there.

Spain's "Socialist" party has agreed to a coalition with the corrupt right-wing "Popular Party", assuring several years of right-wing rule.

Iran's President Rouhani points to the Clinton-Trump debates as showing a kind of democracy no one should want in their countries.