My job is in Houston. Small towns don't need people with my talents. The people who live in the small towns and commute have high dollar real estate and a much longer drive. This doesn't work. I also want to keep my daughter in her current school as that is where her scholarship for college is going to be. I am not going to screw her future for a "just in case" scenario.
And a lot of this stuff, no matter how much it costs today, it will look cheap compared to what it will cost after. And simple things like water storage don't cost much. Plastic drums for water don't cost much, neither to large sacks of rice and beans.
We have done the stuff that is affordable. During the last bit of hurricane stuff we were good for two weeks. Three if need be three weeks. A year? Ain't gonna happen. Many that think that they are prepared for a year are not. The roaches and weevils are going to survive. They are not stocking up either.
Keeping my job will be the most critical thing, not planting rice in my small back yard.
Just the "mental preparation" provided by reading this article will put you way ahead of the sheeple, if TSHTF. And for one thing, you already have firearms covered, and most sheeple don't.