The Best Places in America to Be in The Event of a Collapse

Ask a Prepper ^ | April 2016 | Mrs Davis

[C. Nelson]

First, you want to pick a place that allows you to maintain a normal, mainstream life before life as we know it comes crashing down. A lot of us are of the mindset that something catastrophic is inevitable. I am becoming increasingly convinced that this is a sooner rather than a later probability, however it could conceivably still be years away. So in the meantime, you want to have reasonably convenient access to things like employment, education, cultural and extracurricular activities for your kids, modern medical facilities, shopping, and all the trappings of modern life.

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Another consideration is proximity to nuclear power plants, proximity to military installations, distance from potential targets in a nuclear attack, and things of this nature. As to military installations, the concern is always martial law, confiscations, conscriptions and so on, all the FEMA camp nightmares we have envisioned and theorized about. I am not particularly concerned about nuclear war in the classic sense, and feel that EMP type weapons are a far more likely and devastating possibility, but terrorism is always a consideration and those guys are nuckin’ futs and very hard to anticipate, so being too close to potential targets detracts from an areas desirability.

So, where are the best places to be?

1. One of my favorite places is the Ozarks region of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma

This region provides many areas that are about the right distance from cities, have a good water supply, strong rural and conservative traditions, agricultural activity in the form of farming and ranching, and a history of subsistence farming.

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What would be your first 5 options?

[sailor76]

We’re in St Pete. Traveling to Sarasota is no problem. Is there a regular meet?

[DuncanWaring]

Here's an overall philosophy for answering the question:

The CW2 Cube -- Mapping The Meta-Terrain Of Civil War Two

The centerpiece illustration:

[Captainpaintball]

That is a great idea, but you gotta get close enough to them, in that critical timeframe to post the signs. Unless you are going to risk posting them within a mile or so around the neighborhood.

[vetvetdoug]

Searcy or Marion County, Arkansas. The ethnic population is the lowest in the state and the taxes are too. Population for the counties is in the low 20K too with a nice hospital within 20 miles.

[huldah1776]

Tell you one thing, the area on the map is occupied by GOOD NEIGHBORS.