Posted on 01/26/2010 6:12:58 AM PST by iloveamerica1980
Where is the best place to live in the country in the event of economic collapse? A US Army veteran employs to use of computer graphics and a host of social-economic-environmental factors to share his conclusions....which are fairly obvious!
Well, everything will be on sale!
Cool. I could load up my boat and head north through the Mobile Bay delta where there is plenty of fresh water, vegetation, and game.
Imagine the competition for “his” space!
It's unlikely to get worse than what those people saw.
Moreover, a large collapse will be at least somewhat incremental...you'd see one area fall before another...and be able to learn how people are going to react to this new crisis.
But other than the above, most of the apocalyptic fantasy is that suddenly we are free men again...with no burdensome government and corporate rules...living as rugged individuals instead of as a collective.
A pleasant fantasy, but the experiences of Zimbabwe and Argentina suggest different realities.
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If I remember correctly, from my inferior public school system history, quite a few people were able to survive in areas north of the frost line well before public utilities were available. My parents property backs up against the River of No Return Wilderness area in North Idaho. Plenty of water, plenty of game, plenty of wood for a cabin and a cozy fire, and very few people.
While I prefer the comfort of S. TX I can certainly imagine surviving close to the Canadian Border without any problems.
I'm not so sure. With our relience on national trucking and food distribution, the national electric grid and with such widespread use of credit cards and electronic banking -- I think it's possible that it would all come crashing down at once.
I can’t access the link....can someone post the map here?
According to this map....appears I've made a reasonable and safe choice!
Perfect!! Mind sharing the place with me?? If that's ok with you...I'll be camped out up by the Garlic store!!!
Firewood!! Warms ya twice...cuttin' and burnin'.
But what are you going to do when you get old and unable to cut enough, hmmmmm??? (like I am now)
The movies tell me that you'd both better be practicing head shots if you want to keep the contents of your craniums.
I think it’s already been established that you don’t want to be there during a collapse.
I think he avoids the immediate area around NOLA because of population, but he does seem to recommend swampland in the middle of Florida.
Er, good luck with that.
Here's a website that talks a lot about where to go post-collapse.
http://www.survivalblog.com/retreatareas.html
His top 10 states:
1 Idaho
2 Montana
3 Oregon
4 Washington
5 Wyoming
6 Utah
7 South Dakota
8 North Dakota
9 Arizona
10 Colorado
The analysis given is wrong and does not account for water borne diseases such as malaria which would become a serious problem. One of the reasons the pilgrims landed in Massachusetts was that it was north of the area that was known to harbor water borne diseases and the Massachusetts had one twentieth the number of deaths from water borne diseases of the Cheasapeake area.
The analysis presented might kill you.
If SHTF, I am heading North for this reason.
I live in AR, which is among the areas he listed as good. A friend of mine at church has a cabin I know about and I briefly considered it since it was near a river and thus there’d be a steady supply of fish, but almost everyone at church knows about it and I’m sure he’d have his own plans for it in such an event.
I’ve settled on either making a run for Texas or going up to the Buffalo River. I need to learn a bit about both before I make up my mind.
What is “survial”?
Our forefathers made it, all over America.
And so would we.
I'll be heading for the hills.....no, wait......I already live there! :-)
Just an FYI, Jack Spirko, creator of TheSurvivalPodcast.com, who lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area bought land here in Arkansas 25-30 miles from me a few years ago as his bugout location, and is in the process of moving here (if he hasn't already) permanently.
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