What Is The Best Place To Live In The United States To Prepare For The Coming Economic Collapse?

TEC ^ | 5-2-2011

[cripplecreek]

I’m staying right here in Michigan. In the event of an economic collapse it won’t really matter where you go if you’re looking for employment. I wouldn’t live in Detroit in the best of times.

Hunting and fishing opportunities abound and the soil is plenty fertile for growing food. The climate isn’t terrible unless you’re used to something milder. We don’t get the strong storms of the plains, our flooding problems are pretty minor, no earthquakes, and our brush and forest fires are mostly restricted to the north where there is sparse population.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I agree. Most people live in a large city or in the burbs. Whatever part of the country you live in you don’t have to move thousands of miles away. Just get a small retreat out in the country and stock it up. If things get untenable you can bug out to it indefinitely or you and your family can also enjoy it as a weekend and vacation getaway. If you are trapped in the city when the collapse comes you will lead a dangerous and miserable existence. Start planning now and be ready.

[Concentrate]

Hi blam! How are you? One point I’d like to bring up is that living in a big city like New York might actually be an advantage because police, fire, etc, services may be prioritized to be able to continue there. But who knows?

[B4Ranch]

>>What Is The Best Place To Live In The United States To Prepare For The Coming Economic Collapse?<<

Close to family and friends who may be able to assist you in your search for employment or a ride to the doctors office.

[TheWriterTX]

Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Alabama, Western Tennessee, and Kentucky.

The more southern states have shorter winters. Outside of immediate large cities, there are TONS of wide open spaces, natural water sources, ability to grow food, natural wildlife, fishing, etc.

Oklahoma has some great mountain ranges; perfect for hiding and hunting. Southern Texas is too hot in the summer; west Texas, you'd better have relatives, because country boys know how to survive but they also know how to shoot accurately.

Nebraska is wide open.

The hills in Kentucky and Tennessee are cultures unto themselves.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Oh, whatEVER! :)

[Free Vulcan]

I still say North Central Missouri or South Central Iowa. Plenty of everything to survive in an economic collapse.

[Zakeet]

According to this guy, himself the survivor of the massive inflation that ruined Argentina in the 1980s and 1990s, the following (Americanized) general rules apply:

• Live in states which allow you to carry firearms and allow you to use them as necessary for self defense.

• Avoid inner cities at all costs.

• Avoid country living - home invasions and robberies are too easy to pull off and will take place.

• Small towns where you know your neighbors and they know you are the best.

• Garden, farm and raise livestock with friends and family, operating in groups if possible. Pick areas easy to guard.

• Renting housing is much better than owning. Neighborhoods can and will change overnight. Local entities will tax real estate into oblivion.

• Get some precious metals and bury them where only you (and your spouse if you have one and trust them) know where they are stashed.
• Lay in a year's stash of food,

• Get a mean guard dog.

There are many more sensible suggestions in the book.

It is required reading for the times ahead, IMHO.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Anyone serious about this issue should pay close attention to the expert. Consider hiring him for consulting.

http://www.survivalblog.com/retreatareas.html

[peggybac]

ROFLMAO

[atomic_dog]

Study the photograph below. You want to be somewhere that is not lit up.

[tcrlaf]

A small rural town, with it’s own power supply.

My rural small town is fairly easy to defend, thanks to terrain, not directly on a primary Interstate, plenty of silo storage, and has a small moth-balled hydro plant for power, if need be.

In short, we can be self-sufficient, and defendable, for an extended period, if need be.

The only real problem in a total collapse would be fuel, but with small Natgas wells in the area, and a couple of homemade biodeisel stills, we could make it

[Raebie]

Katrina and the recent tornadoes did not take place in the “South East”. This author is geographically challenged.

[upchuck]

If you think that the Mid-Atlantic might be for you, you might want to check out North Carolina or South Carolina. The people tend to get friendlier the further south you go and there are definitely some areas that could potentially work.

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[blam]

I liked this article:

A Doctor's Thoughts on Antibiotics, Expiration Dates, and TEOTWAWKI, by Dr. Bones

"Studies performed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed that 90% of medications tested were perfectly fine to use 8-to-15 years after the expiration date. There was apparently no danger in the grand majority of cases. The FDA tested more than 100 medications, both prescription and non-prescription, and continues to study the issue today."

[Raebie]

And what does living near a fault line have to do with an ‘economic collapse’?

[Age of Reason]

The Northeast is a horrible place to go. Especially New Hampshire.

In addition to the cold and hostile population, the soil is very, very rocky.

So rocky that you'd spend all your time prying and pulling rocks out of the soil to carry them all the way to the edge of your field. Not fun.

Each winter's frost heave brings new rocks to the surface every year, so every year you have to do it all over again.

[kara37]

I guess I’m screwed, since I live in Florida.

Oh well, at least I have a cow, chickens, and a little land.

[MountainDad]

Avoid country living - home invasions and robberies are too easy to pull off and will take place.

B.S. Maybe in Argentina, but not out here!

[Age of Reason]

I’m attracted to NH because it’s the most freedom-oriented state in the Northeast, and the Northeast is where the jobs are.

Not so.

The most jobs in the country are in North and South Dakota. Plus, the ratio of cost of living to average family income in those state is extremely favorable.