I thought of our good friend, FReeper ‘Cuban Leaf’, when I was reading this article.
So did I. I was going to ping him just as soon as I finished reading the article.
Ah, if I could only describe to you where I live and the surrounding area...
I own an entire finger of a plateau, about 90 feet over the valley below. You can’t see my house unless you come up a road that, when we first saw it, were a little afraid we were going to come up on a house with an old guy on the porch with a shotgun in his lap just itchin’ to shoot him some city slickers driving one of those new-fangled horseless carriages.
Now we like it that way.
My neighbors have no idea how much money I make, and we all think alike, politically. They are as prepared as I am (some much more so). We are far enough from the liberal areas that the starving hordes would have to get through many people like me to get to me. It would cull the herd.
But, ultimately, “safe” is a meaningless word without a qualifier. We’re a LOT safer than Seattle or its burbs, which is where I lived for 45 years. We considered Wyoming for tax (and other) reasons. My sister and her husband live next to Mel Gibson’s old place in Montana and actually bought it from him a few years ago. They’re ready as one could expect. Kentucky (the part we are in) is actually pretty safe, and our property is safer than most here, but it is also spectacularly beautiful. And with an elevation of ~1,000 feet, it’s more comfortable, heat-wise, than some areas around here.
We moved here for two reasons.
1. If we do not have a SHTF event, it is a beautiful and wonderful place to live.
2. If the SHTF, it has everything we need to be self sufficient and be “relatively” safe. e.g. we get enough rain that nobody waters their lawns here, but we get it like Hawaii. In fact, this area is very much like Hawaii without the ocean.
And remember, when you bury your PM’s put a layer of old nails a foot or so above it so those with metal detectors think the nails are what they were picking up... ;-)