You’re also more susceptible to attack by large groups or forced relocation by the govt.
4 or 5 people on a farm would be easy to overtake by a well disciplined group. Especially if a couple are caught out working in the fields.
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4 or 5 people on a farm would be easy to overtake by a well disciplined group. Especially if a couple are caught out working in the fields."
And here's a typical example of contemporary, suburbanite discipline.
Burning AK47 - 300 Rounds & on Fire - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNAohtjG14c
No problem for the "4 or 5 people on a farm." ;-)
And in the event of economic or wartime disaster, fuel for long drives would most likely be hard to come by. City folks would stay in the cities (see also gridlock, roadblocks, dangers of walking through other neighborhoods, etc.)
There will probably be "civil unrest" in at least some of the cities. But mostly, many people who aren't accustomed to doing much real work (bureaucrats and the like) will find out what it's like to get really poor (re. default ahead).
There won't be any grand, awesome adventure "as seen on TV," IMO. ...only a bond collapse, more widespread poverty and much smaller government ahead (spending, lack of real domestic manufacturing, lack of value in currency from "money printing," and so on).