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In places where sea walls aren't built, people will move uphill. You can prepare by purchasing currently undesirable properties that are at higher elevations in affected metro areas.

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This paints a picture of people quietly lifting their furniture and goods, buying a house on a good hill in a good neighbourhood and moving there and life goes on pleasantly.

How will society react as a whole? We're talking about multiple billions of real estate and infrastructure wiped out.

Will it even be possible in a practical way for people to move uphill?

It's not easy to lift furniture quietly, but yes, like any other move, because the flooding will be gradual. As far as how society reacts as a whole, look at how the Houston and Baton Rouge metro areas absorbed refugees of hurricane Katrina, a sudden event. I'm only speaking for my country as you asked. Things won't be so peachy in Bangladesh.

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