I know I would stick to what’s familiar to me which is why I would head for one of the islands in the great lakes. It only has a population of around 700 now and the cold winter would probably freeze the dead solid for easy clearing. The 6 mile by 13 mile island would be pretty comfortable for a couple hundred people for quite a while.
A few of my local friends have brainstormed about our town and how we could set it up to survive the zombiepocalypse even to the point of using and old fashioned handcar (if needed) to move water on the railroad tracks. (It's only about a thousand yards to fresh water from the center of town and the tracks go right to the edge of the water.)