We would have a very good standard of living in this big house (not the townhouse) for about a month before food ran out. A lake is within easy walking distance to have water - have fine Berkey to sanitize the water. Actual living conditions would be good at this location due to we have a big bus RV, looks like a greyhound bus, it's that big. It is kept full of water and gas and has a generator and is kept on trickle charge so it will always be ready to roll or to stay here to have the water, generator to run its cooling if its major hot in the house, so go to bus to sleep, cook, whatever.
With all that good stuff in two houses, a big house and a townhouse, HERE'S A QUESTION I HAVE ABOUT THIS BIG HOUSE:
This house is in an upscale neighborhood. There is one upscale condo group, very new, about a mile away and no regular apartment building(s) within several miles due to the high cost of building in this upscale area. There is no substandard housing here and no place for poor people to live. This area is mostly white and if other races live here, they have to be fairly wealthy. Houses are half a million dollars and up, a lot up to a million and more.
There is no inner city mob bad guys in this area. They would have to come from another location as far as at least 15 miles away in all directions from here. Naturally, the largest inner city mob bad guys would be in Dallas, twenty miles away and from there to here is city, just the town names change. There are many thousands of homes from there to here. I don't think they could make it here before they stopped or were killed.
So, the main question is, present mob bad guys wouldn't get here, but would the upscale people here turn into a type of inner city mob bad guys and attack their upscale neighbor(s) when they realize the neighbor(s) isn't/aren't dying like they are?
I sit in this fancy house in this fancy area and wonder how secure it is among it's fancy neighbors. This being Texas, I'm sure they all have guns. Would they use them on me and other fancy neighbors to stay alive?
If they have kids, and you have food and they don’t, I doubt they’d hesitate. Income doesn’t matter. There is a king and a despot in every crowd.
Dear heart, fear and desperation can make people do bizarre and inhuman things.
You never know if, when SHTF, that beta-male cashier at Home Depot would morph into The Governor from "The Walking Dead".
You never know if, when SHTF, that sweet young girl who sings alto with the choir at the Antioch Full Gospel Fellowship Assembly will turn out to be a Ladies Auxiliary of the Bloods.
And if that's not enough to convince, the first dozen pages of Selco's blog will instruct as well.
That sounds similar to the place my inlaws have in South Carolina for getaways. They’re planning to retire down there, and if they asked me the same question, I would tell them to assume all people will turn feral when the SHTF, even upscale ones.
They’d be prepared, though. They are both excellent with guns. When my FIL is out of town, my MIL has told us-—”Anyone who opens that door during the night better yell “Mom”, because she sleeps with her gun nearby and she will use it.
Everyone in the surrounding areas know that’s a wealthy area...so IMO it would be a target for the gangs of bad guys. And they’d be real happy to take off in that RV....
Better IMO that you get yourself a place in the hill country to bug out to.
You can tell part of my voice recognition software failed with that last post of mine.
Just my opinion here, but I’ll try to answer your very good question. It all depends on how bad, how big, and how long the disaster lasts. Even if it was a power loss for two days that would be calamitous to the EBT gangs. When the EBT system went down in several states two years ago my wife and I were watching TV. We were shocked. Two women the size of refrigerators almost assaulted the TV crew covering the story. They were enraged, and screamed: “Da @;”ing EBT done broke!! How’s dey spect us to eats?!” This was six hours after the machines went down. So depending on the emergency, you will probably be safe in the short term. But in the long term I think everyone will make their way to where the resources are.
What is the quote that Kart is always making regarding HUMONS from Quark? That’s your answer.
We live 75 miles from St. Louis. and I figure as long as they have a tank of gas, they can get here, so we better prepare for “yutes” from the City.