>>>It’s entirely possible that nowhere in North America is a safe redoubt.<<<
The real question is, where would it be safer? If the SHTF, and the power of the US basically gone outside the US, would you want to be an expat gringo in Mexico? How about Thailand?
My brother has four acres in Honduras. Would that be safer?
I’m fine with rural KY, at least an hour from any major population center. We all speak English and there are plenty of new and used parts for my stuff.
I wouldn’t want to be an American expat in a developing country filled with hungry people. Rural Kentucky sounds like it might be all right, at least until the desperate start driving down I-65 in convoys looking for food and shelter. No doubt folks in your part of the world will defend themselves, and no doubt the desperate will do what they need to do to survive. I don’t see anything different here in Alaska. In the end, it’s in God’s hands.