Posted on 01/26/2012 4:44:50 PM PST by blam
The way I look at it, anyone who leaves Detroit and makes it this far, will be worth taking an honest look at to decide whether they can contribute to the community.
I live in a community like that. AND I can’t wait to get out.
People are so educated they need help to do everything that counts in life. Common sense, intelligence and education are not related.
Were you being sarcastic?
bflr
That - might - actually work.
I never heard anyone suggest it, before.
But, when you get right down to it, a microwave oven IS a farrady cage.
Who knew?
Thank you.
for example?
Good thoughts. Lots of opportunity, there.
But your first influx will be from JXN, then K-town. You will be full up when the survivors of Detroit arrive.
:)
Yup, and I read about that right here on Free Republic.
When it all hits, I’ll miss FR the most...
LOL, I can’t read everything, you know.
Yes, FR will be missed.
>>LOL, I can’t read everything, you know.<<
Me neither! That’s why I’ll miss the FReepers giving my pointers.
I’ll miss ice cubes and indoor plumbing.
You can have 'em.
The people are better educated,
But not necessarily in anything worthwhile ... and frequently lacking in common sense.
everybody is very friendly
Especially when playing "Knockout King" ... it's such lovely interaction with total strangers.
nd there is lots of stuff to do.
Like get mugged, robbed or raped.
You can walk anywhere you want to go eat, shop or whatever.
And have to, because you can't afford a place to keep a car.
The night life is interesting.
Yes, drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, bums, pornography shops, and wandering gangs of yoots are just fascinating.
You can find better business connections,
Yes, lots and lots of folks in the pharmaceutical business ... cash only, of course.
there are very high concentrations of millionaires. There are a lot of liberals too...
And a surprising connection between them. You also find a very high concentration of professional busybodies paid by your tax money.
Everybody goes to private school,
Yeah, except of course the teeming masses incarcerated in prisons labeled "So-and-so Elementary School" or PS #666.
But if you want to have your kids go to private school, you need a large city to support competition between them.
False.
Nearly everybody I know has a pretty prestigious education:
Nearly everybody I know has a practical and productive education, many of them are military veterans. I find their company and their conversation much more sane, intelligent, and grounded in fact than the drivel spewing from the mouths of Ivy League fools.
I liked small towns before I was exposed to the city.
Every time I go to the city, I realize first that everyone there is insane, and second that if I lived there any length of time, I would be insane too.
The volitional power of the city is awesome!
Yes, indeed, it's a real Triumph of the Will.
I enjoy our civilization.
Our civilisation is being destroyed by these oh-so-brilliant, prestigiously educated urban poofters with whom you love hobnobbing.
When TSHTF, living in a modern city will by impossible. Dying (horribly) will be very easy.
Laura Ingalls Wilder said, “The rich get their ice in the summer and the poor in the winter”
We just have to build an ice house. It will hold for six months.
As for indoor plumbing, you’re right. But my toilet will flush by hand even if we have to haul the water in.
I'm afraid that traveling after TSHTF will be deadly. IMO, you could be ambushed around every corner.
You're going to have to gamble now and make those preparations before TSHTF.
Pitifully, we can’t.
If we left, we leave everything. No one would buy our house and no guarantee of a job anywhere we go. The best we can do is be aware and ready to go asap.
It’s going to take a couple hours for the “youths” to get organized and get to us. In the meantime, they are going to be hitting the better neighborhoods first. That buys us time.
Cabin doesn’t have indoor plumbing - actually, it has no plumbing at all.
No one is there most of the winter, and who the heck is going to heat it?
HOWEVER - it occurs to me I can plumb it up, and leave the pipes dry.
In a SHTF scenario, we could have plumbing on day one. Gravity-fed water system, septic, etc.
Hot water is going to be boiling buckets on the wood stove.
My in-laws have a cottage in Traverse City, MI. It’s fully piped. Every year my hubby and his brother blow out the pipes and put RV antifreeze in the toilets. No problem with the plumbing at all.
We bought two rainbarrels a couple years ago. One is in use right now. We use it for outdoor watering all summer. Your gravity fed system is a great idea.
I saw a “Dirty Jobs” where Mike Rowe was making huge water containers for buildings in NYC. They have gravity systems. I wonder how a rainbarrel would fit into that equation for a smaller building.
Again, I have no desire to drive 10, 20 or 30 miles for a stupid gallon of gas, no jobs or anything else.
If people really want to get away, I suggest they leave the country and head to the Amazon jungles. Or hey, there is always Alaska if ya like living in a refrigerator environment. It's just not for me.
BTW, rural areas are also very easy targets...Few or no neighbors, few witnesses, few or no prying eyes or cameras...People leave their doors unlocked, everyone is trusting, etc...All the things criminals like.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.