Southern California is the one of the best places in America to be homeless.
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Food for thought ping....
What Is The Best Place To Live In The United States To Prepare For The Coming Economic Collapse?
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Anywhere but a large city.
The feral yoots already have a stranglehold on most major cities. When TSHTF, it will only get worse.
Also. Check out any of FR’s great prepper threads on how to prepare for any crisis yet to come.
“I’d love to tell ya, but then I’d have to kill ya.”
Hawaii has a huge population and it does not have a lot of room.[ BS.... lots of people in Waikiki maybe m but elsewhere there are lots of wide open spaces . Lots of work although fairly low paid , but if worse comes to worse you can totally live off the land and the sea in Hawaii and NEVER have to worry about freezing to death . Some places you can still buy rural subdivision land for under 10K per acre . Beat that anywhere .
Like Alaska, most supplies have to be either shipped in or flown in.[ true and including gasoline , but any enterprising and industrious can beat the system and get themselves self-sustainable , and their family , within a relatively short while . Of course folks with money can get there a whole lot quicker!] And one really bad tsunami could pretty much wipe Hawaii out. [ pure BS , tsunamis only affect a small area along the coastline . I wouldn’t want to be there after an asteroid strike in the middle of the Pacific though , but what are you really going to allow yourself to worry about ? ]
As long as you mention the New Madrid fault, you might as well mention volcanoes (Mt. St. Helens) as well as earthquakes (potential for a 9+ and associated tsunami) in the northwest. Then there’s the supervolcano in Yellowstone. Really, it’s a matter of choosing your poison. Do you want to face drought and wildfires, or baseball-sized hail, or hurricanes, or -40 weeks, or earthquakes and/or tsunamis, or periodic torrential rainfall and flooding (Fargo, ND)? Not to mention the people who live in various places.
I would say any place with a light population, mild weather, and plenty of high quality water.
That pretty much matches the Florida panhandle. There are a huge number of natural springs, both large and small. Most of it is well above sea level.
You can get by with only a small amount of food for a pretty long time but having bad water will make you sick quick.
You better know how to hunt and fish. Oh, and live somewhere that has ample hunting (trapping) and fishing.
The best place for me to reside, in the event of an economic collapse would be in your house.
I’ll live in your basement, I’m not picky.
A country boy can survive!
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.
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?
>>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.
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.
I still say North Central Missouri or South Central Iowa. Plenty of everything to survive in an economic collapse.
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:
It is required reading for the times ahead, IMHO.
Anyone serious about this issue should pay close attention to the expert. Consider hiring him for consulting.
http://www.survivalblog.com/retreatareas.html