"It was at this point that residents realized that their visions for their new town had been so much pie in the sky," says Hsieh Chih-cheng, executive director of the 921 Earthquake Reconstruction Foundation. Hsieh says that as the relocation work on the neighboring Shuangchi and Sanchakeng Villages was completed and the huge Chichi Earthquake disaster area began to look like its old self again, residents of Juiyen were stuck waiting.
「到了這個時候，居民才驚覺當初的大餅可能只是空中樓閣，」921 重建基金會執行長謝志誠指出，在鄰近的雙崎、三叉坑等部落遷建工程紛紛完工，廣大的 921 災區逐漸恢復舊觀之際，瑞岩人一度只能無奈等待。