Is Now The Time To Move Away From Major U.S. Cities?

The American Dream ^ | 1-26-2012 | Michael Snyder

[patton]

LOL - what nonsense. My wife makes me kick the bucket, to make sure there are no mice in it.

Call that my bucket list.

LOL

[Mad Dawgg]

"Sugar, corn, and water are easy to find..."

I was talking more about the materials for the actual still. Copper tubing and fittings and such.

[ArrogantBustard]

That’s why I live where I live!

I don't blame you.

Still ... I think it's instructive to consider the various "services" that make urban life possible ... and what will happen to those services when TSHTF.

Police, Fire, EMS ...

Electricity, gas, gasoline, water, sewer, food ...

Imagine how much fun it will be as all this comes crashing down around the ears of the feral hominids.

Remember Watts? Detroit, Washington DC, Newark, Atlanta ???

Those were localized. And they were catastrophic. When TSHTF whole cities will go the same way.

[Grunthor]

My “Farm” is way too small to blip on the beaurocrats’ radar.

Otherwise I really have no idea what you are talking about.

[Travis McGee]

Yep, it’s a delicate balance, and there are no guarantees. Move to a remote mountain and you might not get found, but you might starve to death eventually if you’re not a crackerjack farmer already. And the farther NW into the cold zone, the harder that gets.

OTOH, your small town with some kind of job and other advantages might get overrun by savages. Who knows? I’m in North FL, at least we grow enough to eat around here.

[little jeremiah]

It’s a general rule, of course - I pinged you since I mentioned your name!

Various odds in various locations. The one thing I would not bet on is the future being like the (recent) past. Like many scenarios in not recent past, yes.

[Salamander]

Plumbing and wiring isn’t that hard.

Your professor was an idiot.

[cherry]

lack of law enforcement is not a bad thing if you don't live in the inner city...basically, you protect yourself and your own, and the consequences be damned...

you know the politically correct police will only protect a certain few, and the law will only go after the right wing nut jobs....so who needs em?

[jpsb]

Cool I will watch that one! Thx

[Salamander]

My mistake...it was a Monarch wood cook stove and later, I used the 1930's Oriole gas stove.

The Monarch looked very much like this but this one but not nearly as pretty, being original to the house and well-worn.

I had to go out to the smokehouse [yeah, seriously] and see what the name of the gas stove was.

I no longer have the Monarch...and no, you don't want one...LOL

Both were ordered from various Montgomery ward catalogs [late 1800s/early 1900s] that are somewhere up in the attic, still.

The charming -real- linoleum "rug" with the nausea-inducing pattern also came from the 1920s MW catalog.

It got tossed right fast, too...after I scraped and peeled it off the old yellow pine board floor where it had sort 'grown into the wood'.

Bleah.

[jpsb]

Can you recommend a still or plans for a still, one that will not blow the operator up and is easy to use and make (or cheap to buy)? thanks.

[blam]

"New Reality Series premiers soon: Doomsday Preppers No, I am not kidding... "

Wow. Ain't that something.

I was prepping before prepping was cool....

[netmilsmom]

??For instance, in my little cabin in the woods, I need a couple of hundred freepers to defend it.<<

We are four who can shoot (well, I’ll learn. Dad is a former marine and the girls took shooting classes).

When it gets closer, I’ll pm you for directions!

[netmilsmom]

Yikes! Some question marks appeared in my last post!

[Travis McGee]

You can and should try to hedge in all directions, but there are no promises.

[Silentgypsy]

I’m OK w/boiling buckets on the wood stove. I’ll still miss my ice cubes :( There’s nothing like a beautiful glass of iced water on a hot summer day!

[Domestic Church]

Ruralia scares Suburbia, it’s another planet to the folks from the inner cities. All we have to do is pluck our banjos.

[blam]

"There’s nothing like a beautiful glass of iced water on a hot summer day! "

Hot Summer Day

[patton]

That there woodstove is sure some pretty.

[grumpygresh]

How about some land along the CA border? What about buying contiguous land on both sides?