Posted on 12/03/2012 9:02:01 AM PST by Uncle Chip
I still work in a major metropolitan area, but am 7 hours from my escape. Cities will be the worst, Sandy and Katrina have shown that.
I have a son who lives in the mid-west, but he is finally getting it, and doing some preparing.
Gunner
Where’s the tipping point in that equation?
Which equation the getting to old to fight or the trade off moving to town?
The age thing, it depends, I am early 50’s and can still shoot like I did years ago, but I don’t have the physical stamina, plenty of strength, but short lived. Also, my long distance vision in going so 1000m shots are getting harder. I also have seen a slight decrease in quick thinking, but that may be lack of interest in the daily things I have to think about at work. I figure in my case probably about 8-10 more years.
The town move, that is too abstract and can only be answer if the SHTF while I am still alive.
Ooops, I answered to the wrong post. That I cannot answer. Some are holding out but the taxes and population explosion is shutting them out.
WOW... Nevada beat Alaska?
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TT
Before long there won’t be any “out in the country” to move to. The more farms that are lost to sub-divsions the more costly food is to produce (even without the govt getting involved). The end game looks ugly.
Forty miles from any major city such as Austin, Dallas/Ft. Worth or Houston and at least twenty five from a 'minor' city such as Abilene, Amarillo or Lubbock.
Personally, I'm thinking of our next home being around Coleman, Texas - small town, big trees and a bit further West from tornado alley than we are now.
Re: Is land more expensive in Montana than Texas?
When I moved to Montana in 1971 the average cost of ranch land was 52 dollars an acre according to the Chamber of Commerce. Sigh but that was before the developers moved in.
I just checked my Lewis and Clark route map on Google Earth.
On the return trip they followed the river that runs through the southerly portion of this ranch.
Error in my prior post. It was only Lewis and his group that crossed this ranch. Clark went to the south and down the Yellowstone.
When I clicked on this, I half-thought it was going to be about a cathouse in Nevada.
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