Trouble with Switzerland is that we Yanks cannot get in to stay. They are very tough on immigration. And it’s expensive as hell.
I’m just not that enamored with the idea of fleeing, unless circumstance literally forced it. It’s a semirural area just outside a midsize sourhern metro area here, farmers abound, most grow a garden and I’m related to half the county. So, I’ll stay put.
Family’s been here going on 300 years and Virginia before that, through oppression of religious dissenters, the frontier era, indian attacks, the Revolution, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the Great Depression. We’ll survive this, if indeed a catastrophic economic collapse is as baked into the pie as it appears to be.
If I were less situated, less certain or less attached, I’d be wary of making myself obviously “other,” as far as evaluating a potential refuge. Breakdowns aren’t pretty, and all manner of barbarity rears its head, I know I’ve heard enough old family stories to understand that.
Seek to blend in wherever you end up going, if you do. The scapegoaters won’t have you top of mind if and when it hits the fan.