City or Country?

[Rmplstlskn]

I have seen places out here off of tiny dirt roads where no one goes that I would like to be at if anything happened. However, I have to say that I think where i am now (series of dirt roads) the neighbors would come together. There are still places like ours where everyone knows everyone else and will treat each other decently.

I have seen such places, and you would be surprised how "traveled" those tiny dirt roads are... I too believed "the neighbors would come together," but not in the way I WOULD LIKE! For the ones I saw and knew, they were poor or unprepared, and would "come together" to demand I provide some "help" to them... to "be neighborly..." Just gives us some food... Can we borrow your generator for a few hours... Have any batteries? I need more food...

Rmpl

[HomeDefence83]

To me, the ONLY problem with being out in the country is making sure you can resupply yourself. That's very thing from furnace fuel to water purifying tablets. If this location is a BOL, you also have to consider how to get out to it. But other than those two problems, the city is a NIGHTMARE. In addition to all those basic books we've all read, check out Stephen King's zombie book CELL. It'll show you what will happen to a city when everything suddenly goes wrong. Planes, cars, and power plants all become bombs in that situation.

[monkeybird]

During the last several months I've noticed more and more knowledgeable preppers urging their readers to GOOD. In fact these same blog writers have actually moved even further out of population areas. I've also notice the tone of the forums, including this one, become more urgent. It's almost as if a universal consciousness is aware of the signs around us and feel it's time to put up or shut up.

I chose a middle ground. I'm the first to admit I'm not self sufficient. Not even close. My decision to live where I do is based on the needs of my family. i.e. hospitals, doctors, etc. I thought I was safe enough because my area is so hard to find. Now however, I wonder how remote is remote enough? I guess it time for each of us have to be really HONEST with ourselves, to made the hard decisions.

[610Alpha]

To me, the ONLY problem with being out in the country is making sure you can resupply yourself. That's very thing from furnace fuel to water purifying tablets. If this location is a BOL, you also have to consider how to get out to it.

The point of being out in the country is to become self sufficient i.e. not needing to be resupplied or be able to go a very long time without being resupplied. Furnace fuel, convert to another fuel type specifically one that you can resupply by the sweat of your brow ....chop wood. Water purifying tablets are for bug out bags not your homestead every day use....build a water purifying system that can easily be maintained whether that be by distilling it, chlorinating it, or boiling it the only one that you might need resupplied would be chlorinating it. You can stock up a lot of chlorine fairly cheap and it doesn't take that much chlorine to treat water.

Get out there...get some property raise your own animals and vegetables...get some solar and provide your own electricity...that is the point of going to the country.

[rice paddy daddy]

Since the late 90's we have lived on a dead end dirt road six miles outside a one stop light town of 2,000. Got no plans to move back to the concrete cess pool (city).
We (wife and I) worked all our lives to have a farm in the country. We're here, and this is as good a place to die as any.
Ya'll are on your own.

[Bud]

I have been a prepper since 1983 when i moved my family seventy miles from the city where I worked. We live in an agbiz town of 800, we have our own wells in town and the central water tower draws from all three wells using a pump that is electrically run and we have a natural gas generator to keep it running already on line. We have a grain elevator in town that holds well over 4 million bushels of corn and soybean. We are overrun by deer but also have a very large cattle farm and confinement hog operation within three miles of town. We are over 20 miles from the nearest interstate and the nearest town to us (a similar sized agbiz town) is seven miles away. the nearest town with a traffic signal is seventeen miles away. (It was a really big deal when it was placed in operation 12 years ago. Many of us rushed over there just so we could say we drove through it)

We have every single type of tradesman you can imagine living in town; plumbers, carpenters, concrete workers, electricians, welders, you name it and all of them have their tools. Many are veterans and many are hunters.

A very large number of us have agreed on common calibers, that is 9mm, .22lr, 12 gauge and 5.56mm. We have one road in and one road out and the surrounding countryside can be easily watched from on top of the six story grain elevators. We have a very fast moving deep creek on the north end of town and a large impoundment lake just seven miles north.
Because of our experience with storms, both tornados and winter, many of us have generators and a lot of is have secondary sources of heat for our homes. It's a big fad right now to add a wood burning auxillary furnance to the standard natural gas furnaces in our homes.

We are not the only town around that is prepared as well as we are.

Stay in the City or suburbs and if you don't, pass us by.