moving home and hunkering down.

[rockriver]

i was considering my food needs for another thread, and considering what family members are doing.....

2 different groups of relatives came to mind, and neither will discuss preparedness or survival as we do..
BUT>..

the texans,
2 cousins ( brothers) moved to texas from ga. then their mother moved to be near them. another sister and husband, both police officers, have bought a house and preparing to move. another sister is a nurse, is strongly considering the texas move... they say, something on the order of "the worlds getting crazy. it just seems like it would be good if we all lived near each other." hmm. the brothers have grown children.... and were discussing their weaponry when we last met... maybe they are more into prepping than i realized... lol

the tenns,
uncle lives on a hillside on in tenn. everyone in area has small homesteads with a few horses or cows, and a garden and a barn or two and a tractor! one child is architect and has built house nearby on same road. another child is veternarian and has bought house and land across the valley on same road. another child is retired military with specific skills, preparing to move home. they don't use our vocabulary, but i saw a stack of white buckets in one basement. and buried fuel tanks.. when i commented, i was told, well you never know when you might need extra food. and well, it's harder for your fuel to be stolen, if the tank is out of sight.
uncle wouldn't discuss, surv and prep. but smiling he took me to his basement. he has a small "cave" under the house... and when i asked he said... you know we live too close to that nuclear facility. i trained all the children what to do when they were little...

the bottom line of these two examples are that folks are forming up and hunkering down. in a quiet, but clearly determined manner... i'm just guessing it is happening in your family also..
think about it? they aren't members here, or at other survivalist websites. have you got an example, you'd care to share?

it is encouraging...

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Most of my family wouldn't know "form up" from squat. All they know is latch on which is why I avoid them.

There are a lot of folks in this area that have survived the crash that are doing this stuff. In fact more and more and no they don't talk about it much. But just try and get bakery buckets round here LOL. Some of my recent conversations they state they don't say much so as not to look like them people on tv.
Training, mm not so much, they do things as part of a lifestyle being from this area but no organized stuff.
No one here is moving much because it's one of the free states not enjoyed by many these days

[Flagwaver]

After the government of Cyprus put its hands into its citizens' bank accounts and TOOK their life savings that they had set aside for their retirements, my brother bought a largish gun safe. Then, I found out that another family member had also purchased a large home safe and 25 acres out in the country. I have a safety deposit box in my bank, but I think I should get a home safe, too. I went to look at safes yesterday. My local ACE man told me they have a 6 month waiting list for Liberty safes. He can't keep them in stock. People are preparing.

Even my sisters have started talking about buying "family land" where we could live near enough to help each other in hard times. They are not kidding, and they know nothing about websites like this one. People are quietly trying to get their lives in order and protect their wealth and families.

[Grinnan Barrett]

My wife and I were just discussing this today. Our kids all moved out and now they are moving back toward home. Our son moved back in with us and this has worked out fine. We are in process of looking for new property nearer to our home. Plan is to have all the family on 30 to 40 acres. We currently have over 400 but it is too far from home to be of use to us here. I am retiring from my job and plan to work locally doing something. The family is all in favor of the move as they are sick of the city. All are into preparedness so they know the drill. The closest friends we have are also looking at the same area we are.

It appears to me that people are in fact moving back into family like circles as a way of protecting those they love. It is like we all feel the impending crisis waiting to happen. GB

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It appears to me that people are in fact moving back into family like circles as a way of protecting those they love. It is like we all feel the impending crisis waiting to happen. GB

Well said.

Have some older parents that are used to me being the survivalist in the family. They and the other brothers have usually always had more "means" than me with which to do certain things but never have really thought about the long term except for socking back some cash. Mom used to always shop for a couple days time. They were both sick a few years ago and we were helping out quite a bit. She couldn't understand why I brought so much groceries there. "Ma, your not in the place where you can go shopping every couple days, it's stupid not to have a week or more of food in the house." Flash forward a few years and she proudly tells me about the pantry she's starting up, Dad asking me to pick him up ammo for this that and the other. They have always been believers in the financial system (yeah I know...LOL). Recently sitting down with them Mom blurts out how she's been telling Dad they need to buy some gold or silver. Wheels turn slow. I gifted them a half dozen Silver Maple Leaves recently with the hopes of getting them interested in that sort of thing. I think deep down the whole family knows I will (and have for decades) prepare FOR them. Mom getting some food is her way of making them less of a "burden" (in their eyes) when the time comes. I think a lot of older folks go through that.

[Rmplstlskn]

My family and extended family are clueless or avoiding the reality of what they see.... My brother has told me many times that they are living as if no tomorrow while they are young enough to enjoy it, then worry about the details in older life... Him and his wife have good careers and make very good money, and they are doing what he said he would do. They go to and fro all the time with their adult toys and hobbies...
The rest of the family are unremarkable in their awareness, and none have skills useful in a PAW or depressed society. One is a bone doctor, which may have some residual value from his schooling as an MD, but I wouldn't bank on it. So none of them have skills I would trade preps for... The only exception is my Mom. She is welcome any time to our home, if she has time to go from South Florida to VA in an event... Otherwise, she is in YHWH's hands...

I don't ~~SEE~~ many other preppers in my area, but if I were able to see them, it would be OPSEC fail... Haven't met many is more like it... It is good to see others have family circling the wagons...

Rmpl