Crisis spurs spike in 'suburban survivalists'

AP/Breitbart.com ^ | 5/25/09 | GILLIAN FLACCUS

[Old Professer]

I’ve never figured out why when people decide to get away from it all they somehow seem to end up in the same place with all the rest of those who had the same idea at the same time.

[clee1]

It’s not the economy, stupid.

It’s the stupid communists!

[familyop]

"I’ve never figured out why when people decide to get away from it all they somehow seem to end up in the same place with all the rest of those who had the same idea at the same time."

Heh. That's a timeless truth! ;-) The diversity of such a group can be entertaining, too. I'm enjoying the snow follies each year, as the costs are split many ways. ...not too bad. Plows weren't enough last year. This year, they have an airport snowblower! We can't wait to watch that in action and take pictures of it, when it's buried in a drift. ;-)

[familyop]

"Would it not be wiser to go either off the grid to some totally rural area or even to Canada or Alaska?

Thots?"

You might try a rural area or tiny town in, say, northwestern Kansas, or even western Nebraska. If you look patiently enough, some places in those areas are really priced low. Such a place might be good for developing or fixing up off and on, without having to move right away. Gardening is even possible in those areas without greenhouses.

The weather and other conditions in very remote, higher elevation areas in the northwest and lower elevation areas further to the northwest can be brutal to extremes. Most people don't like being here year 'round. If you don't mind the weather, the solitude and occasionally meeting people who are very different from one another in many ways, come on up. I'm one of the odd few who like all of this because of too many years of living in extremely hot, humid, extremely southern places in the past.

[Daffynition]

LOL ...don't know. There's a funny web site Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality: Each item was purchased, taken home, and photographed immediately. Nothing was tampered with, run over by a car, or anything of the sort. It is an accurate representation in every case. Shiny, neon-orange, liquefied pump-cheese, and all.

I suspect it would fall into one of those categories:

[Daffynition]

See my post above..........

[2Jedismom]

Man! I wisht I had a cistern!

[familyop]

"Man! I wisht I had a cistern!"

You should have a local company that makes concrete cisterns, septic tanks, risers and the like. Plastic ones also work, but they need to be filled before backfilling (check local code on that) in order to prevent collapse.