[EnglishCon]

I think in a rural situation, staying put is by far the wisest option, with two provisos:

1/ Can you defend your perimeter? You’ll have neighbors you can rely on, sure, but also have a large area to defend with very few people. As was mentioned in that thread, a hundred houses per mile makes better odds of you not being a target than being the only house in a square mile.
A good friend of mine who is a rural prepper has teamed up with the neighbors and agreed that, in a worst case scenario, they will all live and work one farm.

2/ Can you maintain and repair your pump. With a well, that is vital. If you have a stream on your property, you can create a pond - handy for power too - but if not you are depending entirely on the pump not breaking.

I envy you in a way - rural prepping is a different set of challenges, but is a lot easier in a lot of ways.

[Indy Pendance]

My best guesstimate is 50 houses per square mile. We are all conservative, we are in a location that is NOT likely to be looted. We all are looking out for each other. There is a farm next door to me.

We can maintain and repair our own pump. Hubby and I are engineers.

Thanks for the advice. If anyone is thinking of moving, my best advice, move rural, on a well and septic. It’ll save half in property taxes and less gov intervention.

Prepping is easier, we don’t have to bug out of a city. But, even if we don’t tell people we’re prepping, they’ll still come here ‘because’ we’re not in the city. I’ll NEVER live in a city again, EVER! And I’ll NEVER tell anyone I don’t trust I’m a prepper.