Cliff notes: When people in major population centers run out of food, they are going to go to where the food comes from.
There are no perfect solutions—but living in urban areas is the maximum dumb move.
If they run out of food, they must have run out of gas and diesel. They ain’t driving to my rural home out in the Alabama sticks when the fuel pumps stop.
The Starving Urban Hordes will devastate the suburbs and places within walking distance. For those of us who live far, far from the big cities—many days of all day walking—we don’t have to worry about them.
“they are going to go to where the food comes from.”
Likely on foot though
Yep, and the wild game will last for a while, but everyone with any kind of a gun will have the same idea. It won’t be long until you’ll have to walk ten miles to come back with a squirrel or a crow for dinner. In other words, food for one when you may need food for four.
And anyone with a generator will be a target. If your house is the only one for miles around with lights on and hot food on the table; then your starving, freezing neighbors will leave their cold, dark homes and invite themselves into yours. At that point no one will take no for an answer.
So if you have a generator, you’d better conceal it the best you can so no one can hear it run, (put it underground somehow or build a stout, insulated shed with vents to run it, or better yet get a solar generator) and totally black out your house so no light leaks through the cracks to be visible from outside at night.
Any kind of widespread breakdown of civility that lasts more than a few days will bring serious trouble. It will just take a little longer to reach the hinterlands.
Sure, but as they fan out, their numbers decrease for a variety of reasons. Aside from the inverse square law, they will die from disease, accidents and injuries which result in infections, exposure, being shot, being taken out by others between them and me, and starving before they can find the food.
And should it happen in winter, the attrition will be MUCH greater.