“Go tribal rather than solo.”
A small to medium sized town that is a cohesive community and 50 to 100 miles from a large city would be good. By the time the feral population in the city realize they are starving they’ll be out of gasoline and they won’t walk that far.
A small to medium sized town will have the ability to engage in a natural economy (barter) and form a cooperative militia for defense. Alternately.......... Guam
The guy on a farm with just his family is dead meat
Agree. If the shtf, ferals won’t dare enter the smaller towns that ring the big cities.