WE are planning to get hunkered in the mountains. A large yard is not going to protect you from your grasshopper neighbors. There are too many of them.
Not everybody can. If you happen to be in the later category, the next best thing is to make friends with your neighbors who are ants and shun those which are grasshoppers.
The political signs they put out during election time is a major clue in said identification. One advantage our side has is that we have more guns and know how to use them.