Concur on the working together but as a hunter and fisherman, food and water is abundant if you know what you’re doing. Money i.e. gold, silver etc is useless when water, fuel, food and even alcohol & clothes becomes far more valuable bartering in a collapsed financial market.
A lot of folks seem to think gold etc is the end all but I’ll take common sense and the above and think I’ll do fine.
Funny you say that about the food. I was recently in norther Vt talking to a couple of guys about hunting after a meltdown. They pretty much told me the deer herd would be gone in a month or so, followed by the Turkeys and other fowl.
The only thing not hunted to extinction would be the fish.
And the northeast of VT is about as rural as you are going to get.