Why?
Everyone keeps saying that as if we're (rural folks) waiting with open arms. What the heck are you going to do when you get here? We all know each other...you'll just be a troublesome unknown outsider with zero supplies.
You may want to consider staying where there's people you know, eh? Get yourself stocked up while you're at it, you may get some unwanted visitors too.
I’m a city person. The cops will be defending their own neighborhoods. Gonna talk my block into going Vlad.
Exactly! I am also surprised that people think folk in the rural areas (as well as in the ‘Southern Hemisphere countries’ stated in the post by Brulee quoting that coast to coast station) would be willing to help. Why would they? Sure, the invaders (and that is how they will be seen) will probably be armed, but so will the people already living in those regions, and they know the area much better. Sure, the National Guard/Army/etc would be involved at some level, but consider that the S will be hitting the fan, and thus it will not be a simple Afghanistan/Iraq issue (and that issue was not ‘simple’ in any case, considering the ultimate sacrifices many brave men had to make). Thus, why would anyone assume people will be needing extra mouths to feed, particularly mouths that will not be able to do much to help (I doubt a New Yorker from Manhattan would be much help in a ranch, or if a ‘pretty girl’ from the Valley would be much help in the fields ...although I am sure other duties could be found that would not be PC in the modern world but would probably be happening in a SHTF scenario ....sad bad things). I feel that is one major assumption that is so totally wrong it couldn’t be more so! Particularly considering how, in the current state of things, people from Southern States are seen as stupid sots by people from the ‘bigger cities,’ and people from the Southern Hemisphere countries are seen as vermin. Hard to anticipate welcome mats when (and IF) things change.
I think the ideal is to get to a rural area BEFORE the SHTF. I’m trying to figure out how to do it.