If you live in the city, you will have big problems if anything goes wrong, because your neighbors problems become your problems.
If you live out in the sticks and prepare, there is a lot of room for error—and most likely your neighbors will be preppers just like you (whether they call themselves that or not).
What type of issues do you mean? I’m not being snarky; I simply don’t understand your point.
The waitress at the restaurant I ate at today (a no mask no distancing state) was complaining that the walmart was a 1/2 hour drive. The town is a ways out.
Cities will extinguish within a week. Preppers can hold out for a year but there will be prepper wars and the city refugees will be scavenging. SHTF is pretty much the end depending on the circumstance but the more we depend on government,SHTF will be dystopian catastrophic apocalypse.