While “where” is part of the ‘escape’, especially if where you ARE is NOT the place to remain if TSHTF. You know all about that.
It’s about being ready BEFORE you are abandoning a sinking system and being able to survive —> thrive (eventually) when the ship sinks from internal damage.
We could hardly be in a better place to hunker down.
Sure, someone could almost always go to somewhere more remote, but overall, we live where people want to bug out to.
It was a gift from God, really. IN a hot housing market, God saved this place for us.