Billionaire Bunkers: Exclusive Look Inside the World's Largest Planned Doomsday Escape

Frobes ^ | 6/12/05 | Jim Dobson

[Kartographer]

For the very first time, a modern day Noah’s Ark has opened its doors for an exclusive inside look offering up plans for the ultimate Billionaire bunker and doomsday escape.

Vivos founder and CEO Robert Vicino announced Vivos Europa One which will be an invitation only, five star, underground survival complex, similar to an underground cruise ship for the elite. Each family will be provided a private 2,500 square foot of floor area, capable of two story improvements for a total of 5,000 square feet of private living quarters. With fit and finish comparable to a mega-yacht, each member family will hire their own architect and contractor to build out their living quarters to the custom standard they desire.

[lulu16]

On the Best Places site, there are new responses every day from different people, who go by their actual names and list their businesses. From their answers to the questions about coprruption, it seems that it is not a day to day problem.

Getting building materials, like concrete, is a regular occurrence. They don’t produce anything, except for beer.

I am worried myself about moving abroad, but my husband is gung-ho.

[Marcella]

That Frobe’s page will not load right now. I read a fiction book about such a place and it ended up with the people being killed.

People living underground stuck with the other people there is waiting for disaster to happen between the people, a psychological disaster as no one knows how people will react to other people underground. Plus, disaster could happen due to anything that goes wrong with the mechanics of the place that could destroy the air or the food, or sanitation or the cooling or the heating or the way out of there.

I would not go underground if I was invited there free of charge. The man who runs it has the control and I wouldn’t give up control of my life to anyone in a disaster situation, underground or not.

[tang-soo]

12) When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,

13) and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.

14) The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

15) Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave[e] and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

17) for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?” Revelation 6:12-17 (ESV)

[TADSLOS]

Reminds me of the sci fi book ‘Wool’.

[Helvan]

Fallout vaults are now a real thing?

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I am ready to move too. Still trying to get finances set and decide where to go. Most of 3rd world very corrupt. Corrupt here too, but the biggest problem is going to be some type of civil war. One does NOT want to be in the middle of that, I assure you.

[knarf]

Not the comments I read ...

I didn't read them all, but about 1/2 and most were wanting to either buy the place for their own dream world, or angry/sad about the waste

ONE zombie comment in the beginning

[Taxman]

I’m not sure that there are any “safe” places anywhere, anymore.

The International Living crowd keeps trying to sell me on the notion that life is good in this or that Central/South American country, but I have yet been convinced.

For now, I’ll stay in good ol’ Flori-Duh!

[TurboZamboni]

bump for later

[Hardens Hollow]

Sounds delightful!

I briefly considered leaving the US, but instead escaped Mexifornia and went to the Appalachian mountains. It’s great to be back in the US, so I won’t consider leaving again unless things get worse.

I like your idea of having a vacation home there - you can test the waters, have it as a backup plan if you need to escape, and can decide later to move there permanently. Just up and moving to another country had risks I wasn’t ready to take!

[Mamzelle]

Exactly. These big shots are basically helpless without their entourage, and just wait until they figure out that their entourage will take the resources and perhaps make the billionaires into slaves...

[publius911]

I just read an article about the good and the bad of Belize. Just in case you want to compare notes with the author, if you haven’t already read it:

Looks like very, very fancy and exclusive tombs, if ever an event occurs that would require their use.
Second thing I noticed is that nowhere is the disposal of waste discussed...

40 gallons of water per person per day, and at least a pound of trash PPPD has to go somewhere. Closed loop recycling of water (as with the space station) is not even mentioned. The maintenance workers will eventually become the masters. The proof of that is too well established to argue about.*

Finally oxygen and sunlight is essential, and no known system exists to protect all possible means of attacking those vulnerable intakes and outlets is known to exist.

*My local example is BART, in the San Francisco Bay area. When first proposed it was presented as a fast, efficient means of transporting millions of people to every nerve center of business and finance from many miles around. The reality is that the unionized overpaid operators and maintenance workers hold the keys to its efficiency or total paralysis. It's already happened many times in its short history.

QED

[publius911]

Just up and moving to another country had risks I wasn’t ready to take!

Just talk to a rational normal person who has moved to Costa Rica or Belize "permanently" and learn about the dark side never mentioned in the slick brochures.

A First World Potemkin Village, hiding a third world reality, where bars on every window and hired armed guards patrolling every night is the norm.
Everywhere.
And then there are the tropical diseases and critters and insects you've not even heard of.

Any honest person having experienced the reality can confirm those observations.

[publius911]

Many esteemed architects and land planners are now talking about and planning “New Ruralism”, “Agricultural Urbanism” and “Sustainable” communities. Carmelita Gardens is part of that new movement, one that emphasizes independence and self-sufficiency and is reminiscent of how successful frontier towns were built. Carmelita Gardens is where people can be, as we say, “Independent Together”.

Most architects and land planners are like children, with children control and temper tantrums as "argument." This has been tried so often and failed so often, that I laugh every time it appears.

HUMAN NATURE HAS NOT CHANGED IN 8000 YEARS...

All I need to do is remember that the first group that landed on the North American Continent had that "dream" as their guiding foundation and vanished from the face of the earth in less than a couple of years.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“We are planning to take a trip to Belize later this year...”

Belize, formerly British Honduras, is high on our list of a place to live outside the US. And though we have not yet been there, we have a tentative spot picked...

Belize has everything going for it...climate, English speaking, cost of living, health freedom, very favorable banking system (for off shore too, if one were to stay in the US).

[lulu16]

Where are you planning to visit? We’d like to stay at a beach resort and then take day trips. We want to See the Cayo District, Placencia, Corazal, and of course for fun, Ambergris Caye and Caye Cauker.

What will your itinerary be like? And please report back to us ( and me). And I’d like to see you start a post with your initial research and then we can compare your findings.

Can you share your tentative spot?