What Is The Best Place To Live In The United States To Prepare For The Coming Economic Collapse?

TEC ^ | 5-2-2011

[Christian Engineer Mass]

The Mass. income tax is 5% right? I’d rather not pay it but I’m pretty sure the wage I’d get would be more than 5% higher in Mass.

[The Duke]

I've personally scoped out Dothan, AL. It is an excellent choice - the city was quite obviously booming even during the darkest part of this current economic downturn.

Honorable mention also to Mountain Home, AR and Crossville, TN.

[PA Engineer]

Some places you can still buy rural subdivision land for under 10K per acre . Beat that anywhere .

10K per acre? Your kidding right?? Here maybe? I could give you a couple hundred more listings all within 2 hours of my home in Western Pennsylvania. Most are over 100 acres with farming, hunting, mineral and timber rights. Gas lease rights are starting to become an issue in some areas though. $10,000 per acre is expensive.

[cripplecreek]

I still don’t understand how weather and earthquakes figure into planning for an ecomonic collapse. These things can happen anywhere.<

No fault lines under Michigan's lower peninsula and never underestimate the ability of the lakes to knock the crap out of a storm. Natural disasters can happen anywhere but the greater the stability, the better you'll do.

[blam]

Thanks. Lots and lots of data there.

[PA Engineer]

I lived for a while and worked there. There are only two seasons. July and winter. ;-)

[Squawk 8888]

Try Canada ;-)

[Quix]

Did he leave out Mountain States?

Anyway—thanks for the thread.

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[3boysdad]

Most agree you don't want to be in a densely populated area, but I would add that you also don't want to be anywhere warm. And I'm talking total economic collapse, i.e. throw law and order out the window. You want to be able to live like Grizzly Adams if necessary. Most Liberals who are bringing this mess upon us do not know how to live like this, but they do know that warm is easy. And I feel sorry for all you guys on the border, especially Texas (very densely populated state). We have lost our opportunity by a long shot to seal our borders and make our country safe. You have no idea at this point who is camping out in your “backyard” now, nor what awaits thrusting itself across the “border” when the proverbial crap hits the fan. You'll all be fighting a war to stay alive for sure. But you'll be warm!

[AnalogReigns]

North Dakota

One of the interesting things about Europe, is you just don't see houses, other than castles or palaces, sitting alone on a landscape....as since they have seen many an economic and social collapse down through the millennia, people either lived in walled towns or cities, or next to castles....NO isolated homes. This was all for their own protection from roving lawlessness.

Therefore even now, people who live in the country live in towns and villages....as old habits are hard to break (and I'm sure the zoning works that way too).

I wonder if we will see the same in the future of this country?

[cripplecreek]

Where others see adversity many of us Michiganders see familiarity and security.

My great grandmother only left the state once in her life and said it would never fail to provide for those who learned to use her.

[FormerACLUmember]

Here is the house you need:

Republicans in power home mode:

Democrats in power home mode:

[blam]

"Blam lives in Florida:)"

Nope.

I live 40 minutes from Florida and 20 minutes from Mississippi, freeway driving time.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Any tips on getting and keeping antibiotics? More valuable than gold at the end of the world, I think.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[blam]

"But geography aside, I still don’t understand how weather and earthquakes figure into planning for an ecomonic collapse. These things can happen anywhere."

He's saying that if you're going to move to improve yourself for an economic collapse, don't move to an area that already has know problems.

[douginthearmy]

This is my plan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cs8G_mY8jE

[blam]

"I've personally scoped out Dothan, AL. It is an excellent choice - the city was quite obviously booming even during the darkest part of this current economic downturn. "

Most of my relatives are there. My grandparents (both sides) were farmers in that region.

[EternalVigilance]

A lot to be said for that.

[Jim Noble]

I agree.

Stay the hell away from NH, especially above Concord. Very dangerous.