unless you're independently wealthy, it's too late... there aren't any jobs out hereHere's what that was about. And, if you think it's for urban warfare in foreign cities...I'll sell you a bridge:
bttt
I wouldn’t be caught dead in a city of any size for any real length of time.
Largest would be Olympia, Wa.....for about 2 hrs at a time.
BTTT !
Yet they still manage to muster manpower and gear to conduct East German style checkpoints and speed traps.
It must be almost 10 years since I was in a city of much more than 30 or 40 thousand people.
I’m not in a rural area...but I thank my lucky stars I’m not in a city, either.
Flew home last night and had a stopover in LaGuardia. Sigh of relief just leaving there, they won’t have much of a chance in a place as big as NYC.
A great additional problem is the out-of-control Public Sector Unions, and there needs to be cuts to them, too, as Scott Walker has done in WI. We need to do the same thing in EVERY State (all 57 of 'em !)
Possible SHTF thread...
I get tired of the comments that start out with, “Can you imagine if this happened during the Bush Administration...,” BUT can you IMAGINE if stories like this came out during the Bush Administration??? People are afraid to live in cities and are preparing for the EOTWAWKI, and yet there’s a chance that Obama will be reelected?? What is this, the Twilight Zone???
Don’t answer that.
What made the difference was a scan of the town. When the fertilizer hits the ventilator, all we need to do is blow the Route 17 bridge on the south end and barricade two roads on the north to secure the perimeter. The exits on I-95 are far apart, and if city people want to get to the town without using the exits, they have to wade through two swamps and swim a river with alligators. The land is flat enough that a machine gun nest in my third floor condo would have fields of fire wide enough to prevent anyone from getting into town without my permission.
Of course I'm being facetious...
...or am I?
We moved 35 miles outside the city. Best move ever. We are still well within travel distance to the city for work and shopping but far enough that no one would ever go there much less walk there. We are tucked well out of the way and feel nice a cozy here.
After the November elections, many will probably say to hell with not only American cities, but America itself and pack up their families, their goods and the wealth.. and head elsewhere.
Over time the important centers of political power become more-and-more liberal with less and less commensense conservatism as a break.
These centers of liberalism become malignant cancers that spread everywhere. The laws passed in these cities affect not only their citizens, but the citizens in the abutting suburbs, and even those in rural areas far from the "madding crowds".
Even in the most remotest places in some states you are no longer able to own certain weapons, or if you do they need to be registered to one extent or another.
Even in the most remotest areas there are ever evolving land use restrictions for ecological and other reasons.
If the people in the large cities decide not to enforce the laws or protect the borders, then gang members can flow freely even into the most remote areas, e.g. gang members growing marijuana in remote forest areas.
People in the large cities can vote to place the nastier things in remote rural areas where there is less resistance, e.g. unnecessary dams, pipe dream solar collectors, dumps, etc.
You can run, but you can't hide. And in running you have decided to no longer be a part of the political process.
And if you are truly a "prepper" and you post anything at all about it on the internet then I have some pre-IPO shares in a cold fusion technology I'd like to sell you.
If you think your handle hasn't already been associated with your current GPS location you're in serious denial.
Everybody goes to private school, so it is quite expensive if you have kids. But if you want to have your kids go to private school, you need a large city to support competition between them.
Nearly everybody I know has a pretty prestigious education: Harvard, Pepperdine, the Sorbonne in France, Oberlin, Amherst, Georgetown, Duke, Tel Aviv University, and King’s College in London - to name a few. I rarely ran into anybody educated when I lived the small town I was born in!
I liked small towns before I was exposed to the city. Small towns are stifling. There is energy - the energy of commerce - vibrating off the windows of every tall building in the big city. The volitional power of the city is awesome!
I enjoy our civilization.
Now will riots change all this? I do not know, but I hope not! I might visit my parents on election day, after absentee voting.
Paging John Titor...
The town closest to where I live is about 400. I know, ‘cause I been there once. Life is good!
unless you're independently wealthy, it's too late... there aren't any jobs out hereDon't worry about it. The parasites in Nawlins never had the damn sense to pull their thumbs out of their asses and head for dry ground. I'm not too worried they'll find their way twenty miles on foot to Mayberry.
I wouldn't try to do it with a golf club that's for sure.
I made the move a decade ago. The closest house I can see is miles away and I live and the end of a dead end gravel road 10 miles from the nearest town. The nearest high crime area would be a couple days hike from my house.
I’m considering getting some milking goats and chickens as an easy way to convert land into protein.