For years survival types have asked the question; where is the “perfect” retreat location? Many words have been written on the subject by authors such as Mel Tappon and James Wesley, Rawles, but the simple fact is there is no perfect location.
Granted some places are indeed better than others, some being much better. But trying to find the “ideal location” to avoid the golden horde is a futile endeavor.
Your best bet could be to stay where you are now. Packing up, quieting your job, yanking the kids out of school, leaving relatives and everything you know behind to move to a “safer local”, my not be the best answer.
Getting settled in and becoming one with the community takes time, a luxury I don’t think we have now. You will be an outsider, which is not a favorable position to be in when tshtf.
My place is located in the same area where I have lived most of my life, a small town in the Southern United States. It is not perfect, nothing is; but I know the area and the people. The county has around 22,000 people with a population density of 40 people per square mile.
The closest town to where I live (I live about four miles outside town) has 911 people according to the last census... Most of the county is covered in forest with most of the population living in one small town located up in the northern part of the county.
While this may not be the perfect set up, it is what I have. I know the area well, my family lives close by and I know the people or at least most of them. Should I pack up and move to a different area just because some “preparedness expert” said I should do so? No I don’t think so.
And with the current economic situation would I even have the time needed to make such a move work in my favor?
Sure if I lived in San Francisco or New York City or some other such God forsaken hell hole, I would do everything in my power to get out as quickly as possible. I am sure some will survive even in those areas, but why make things more difficult than they are already?
The point that I am trying to make is this unless you locate in one of the major population areas, you are probably better off staying put, and working within your present situation. Only you can make the final decision.
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I worry about my location because we are surrounded by trees. It would be too easy to ambush us from any direction. We need guard dogs. But being “cattle country,” any dog running loose is fair game for a rancher’s bullet. But we do have travel trailers and plenty of public land to bug out to.
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