Yup—Prepper rule #1—move out of heavily populated areas.
There are no excuses anymore.
When we lived there we use to discuss how to escape the region if a big ugly event, economic collapse, epic quake, war etc...
I recall the LA riots, the biggest most deadly riots in modern American history. For the first several days the LA cops were basically hiding.
Now one can imagine what that entire region would be like in a major event...Nothing I would ever want to go through.
We came to the alarming conclusion there would be no escape.
I moved out 2+ years ago, to a rural town surrounded by other rural towns. It's been positive on many levels.