Top 5 Places In America You DON’T Want To Be When Society Collapses

a reply to: KawRider9

LOL! Gotcha , so be it if Obummer says it it must be true

a reply to: HONROC

Aside from my silly response, would you like to converse about the topic at hand?

Can you explain why having a plan in place now is a bad idea? Or are you just here to derail the thread and ridicule an obvious joke?

a reply to: HONROC

Um, star for the Obimmer reply!

a reply to: LABTECH767

Nope, 100% accurate, nobody needs to come up here to AK with the intent of riding out the coming storm. In fact, it would be very smart if most of the folks here now moved to greener pastures immediately. Not only is Alaska entirely full with the "No vacancy" signs well lit, but it's a hellish place where even the most well prepared are just living on borrowed time before their horrible deaths at the hands of nature.

Yup, I cannot stress how accurate the article is. Alaska should be on top of the list of places NOBODY presently not here should avoid like the plague!

My village, one way in, one way out. If you don't belong here you will be catfish bait. You would be safer in LA.

a reply to: HONROC

You have a PM...

a reply to: sevenpod

Doesn't matter where I'm at I'm stealing a Ferrari.

originally posted by: watchitburn
If we can only list 5, here is my list. (in no particular order)

New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Portland
Seattle


Alternates for dishonorable mention:

New Orleans
D. C.
Baltimore
Philly
Minneapolis
St Louis

Does anyone still live in Detroit?

I live just outside Detroit and I can tell you that my closest friends and I have already planned and mapped out our bug out plans. We’ve spent a lot of time and made a lot of good friends up in the U.P.

originally posted by: watchitburn
If we can only list 5, here is my list. (in no particular order)

New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Portland
Seattle


Alternates for dishonorable mention:

New Orleans
D. C.
Baltimore
Philly
Minneapolis
St Louis

Does anyone still live in Detroit?

I live just outside Detroit and I can tell you that my closest friends and I have already planned and mapped out our bug out plans. We’ve spent a lot of time and made a lot of good friends up in the U.P.

originally posted by: madmac5150

originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: sevenpod
Several decades back, an American being interviewed on British television was trying to identify a "safe place" in America. One by one, he ruled out nearly every region because of the various natural and other calamities that could occur (you will know what they are better than I can remember), and he came to the conclusion that the only really safe location in the entire country was Idaho. I remember that. Defnitely Idaho. A few months later, I saw a news report about an armed house-siege taking place in Idaho. My guess is that very similar calculations had been attracting all sorts of crazy people to the country.

It must be very hard to second-guess these things. Do you know the story about the man who started looking for an isolated island in the southern hemisphere, to get away from the nuclear war he expected in the north, and ended up in the Falklands just in time for the Argentine invasion?

Please, quit spreading the word about Idaho.

We like it the way it is...

Seriously. Go anywhere but Idaho... or, at least stay in the southern part of the state. Winters in N. Idaho can be brutal, so keep that in mind... heavy snow, bitter cold... not an easy place place to bug out to. In a SHTF situation, no one will have spare firewood, and practically everyone here is armed. You may not get a friendly reception.

I do hear that Boise is nice...

As your North Western Montana neighbor, I highly second your post.

Where I live the winters are incredibly bad (think of the movie 2012, except we have no summers here) there is no McDonalds or a mall within 90 miles and there are lions, wolves and bears that will eat your priceless fur baby dogs.

And probably your children.

You can't even get car parts the same day, if you move here people will hate you because you are not a native, everyone is armed to the teeth and they all dress like Elmer Fudd.

It is a horrible place.

It would be best if everyone just stayed in civilized states like California, Washington, Oregon.

a reply to: ManSizedSquirrel

That's a long way to go, especially if anyone is blocking the bridge to Trolls. Wouldn't want to go around the long way. No good way to get around or through Chicago.

We lived a couple years in Manistique, back when there was the Ebola panic. They had plans to block and guard US-2 and 94/442 to seal the town off in the event of a full blown societal collapse. That was planned at a town hall level. I'd imagine they weren't the only town like that, and they'll be even less friendly to outsiders in such a situation.

Just saying, hope they're good local friends to there.

originally posted by: EternalShadow
a reply to: sevenpod

Just another "Fudd" gun owning, "at 800+ yds your ass is grass", rural living, reassuring article for retiree's on AARP who are insecure about all things NOW, and how urbanites are completely fkd.

I don't disagree.

You ain't never been to the US , have you ?
800 yards is short range.

originally posted by: watchitburn
If we can only list 5, here is my list. (in no particular order)

New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Portland
Seattle


Alternates for dishonorable mention:

New Orleans
D. C.
Baltimore
Philly
Minneapolis
St Louis

Does anyone still live in Detroit?

We gotta fit Atlanta in there somewhere!
Also, I'd like to mention that living in relative proximity to a major city would be a secondary danger. Starving folks fleeing a city finding your nice, secluded self-sustaining homestead an irresistible temptation to steal away from you!

a reply to: KawRider9

We have 57 States...

Barry? That you?

I don't want Chinese here to pick and grow my rice. I have oxens yet on my little farm to do the growing.
Oxen now are are maybe less , maybe more.

I sweat in the fields of my labor
I see the worms searching for rescue among the dirt that the crows are preying among

I hear the songs of the birds from the Philippines
I'am with my boots of mud
In a path of history of who owned this land before the purchase
Yet, I move along with my oxen
Till it stops for water

As we feel the sweat dripping down the face today
The ox in front of me does not complain

Its hard work
Only knowingly the long time neighbor of mine
Is not incline to spread his kindness on my field of my wife's anscestors
So I smoke my smokes a look upon the butterfly's that bounce upon my nose now
I'm in the fields of water and worms
Lets the oxen led me , please

Today is rice planting day here, as the rainy season approaches. I clinch among the past the my wife's has made as there safe haven, yet I know the the storms await me as the bottom fish in the ocean awaits my bait.
Some of the farmers do this because of tradition and goes on tv, but now with yt , tv is not so money for them
me , i rest my feet at the door and don't expect much other then a rice ball for dinner and some pickles for after shaking the boots of mud, I enjoy the fruits of sweating and hearing the water system going about its business.

a reply to: musicismagic

The Japanese have a great connection with there land many have lost elsewhere, the feeling that it is part of you and you a part of it, sadly that may have been mostly lost in your city's but you seem to have regained it.

Odd thing for me when I visited back in 98 was as we drove out from Tokyo to a factory in Shizuoka we passed this gully by the side of the winding road and I caught a glimpse of a path into the trees there, I had never been there of course being a Brit but I knew it there is no other way to say that, I knew it and new that up that path was a shrine of some kind, constant sense of familiarity while I was there though you could probably not get less Japanese than me.

Looking out at the sea at one spot near to another factor in a town (sorry I can not spell the name as I only heard it verbally but Kakinan or something similar there was a large white castle in the town with spotlights that illumined it at night) I felt a terrible fear of the sea though I live not far from it in the UK and have no fear of the sea here, it just kind of overwhelmed me and made me very uncomfortable (don't get me wrong I am not saying reincarnation or anything like that but it was a weird sensation to be so far from home yet so at home at the same time to say the least).

You know though Japan has a long history of unidentified flying objects, even the famous Utsuro Bune.

Japan is also very close to or even at the cutting edge of drone development, of course Japan HAS TO BE since it has to contend with a rising China and be ever more able to defend it's territory.

Also over the ages the Japanese have had to contend with natural disasters, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions to name just two as well as cyclones that make most hurricanes look like mild weather.

originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: musicismagic

The Japanese have a great connection with there land many have lost elsewhere, the feeling that it is part of you and you a part of it, sadly that may have been mostly lost in your city's but you seem to have regained it.

Odd thing for me when I visited back in 98 was as we drove out from Tokyo to a factory in Shizuoka we passed this gully by the side of the winding road and I caught a glimpse of a path into the trees there, I had never been there of course being a Brit but I knew it there is no other way to say that, I knew it and new that up that path was a shrine of some kind, constant sense of familiarity while I was there though you could probably not get less Japanese than me.

Looking out at the sea at one spot near to another factor in a town (sorry I can not spell the name as I only heard it verbally but Kakinan or something similar there was a large white castle in the town with spotlights that illumined it at night) I felt a terrible fear of the sea though I live not far from it in the UK and have no fear of the sea here, it just kind of overwhelmed me and made me very uncomfortable (don't get me wrong I am not saying reincarnation or anything like that but it was a weird sensation to be so far from home yet so at home at the same time to say the least).

You know though Japan has a long history of unidentified flying objects, even the famous Utsuro Bune.

Japan is also very close to or even at the cutting edge of drone development, of course Japan HAS TO BE since it has to contend with a rising China and be ever more able to defend it's territory.

Also over the ages the Japanese have had to contend with natural disasters, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions to name just two as well as cyclones that make most hurricanes look like mild weather.

There are many here on the forum that have lived and stayed here much longer then me.

originally posted by: Gothmog

originally posted by: EternalShadow
a reply to: sevenpod

Just another "Fudd" gun owning, "at 800+ yds your ass is grass", rural living, reassuring article for retiree's on AARP who are insecure about all things NOW, and how urbanites are completely fkd.

I don't disagree.

You ain't never been to the US , have you ?
800 yards is short range.

You're right, I've never been to the USA. I live in California.

Please send help.

originally posted by: Homefree

originally posted by: vonclod
How about Iowa?, can't remember the city, I think he said about an hour from Sioux City. A buddy of mine just bought a house there..going to be a big move! Giant house for less than the cost of a sh#tty appt here.

The Children of the Corn really drive down property value.

Well, real estate has gotten ridiculous here, overvalued, but huge demand. My bud paid 225k, for the 4000' foot home, built in the late 1800s, fully updated though..pretty cool from the pics. The equivalent here, would be about 2 mill.

originally posted by: EternalShadow

originally posted by: Gothmog

originally posted by: EternalShadow
a reply to: sevenpod

Just another "Fudd" gun owning, "at 800+ yds your ass is grass", rural living, reassuring article for retiree's on AARP who are insecure about all things NOW, and how urbanites are completely fkd.

I don't disagree.

You ain't never been to the US , have you ?
800 yards is short range.

You're right, I've never been to the USA. I live in California.

Please send help.

Graced to be born Georgian.
Sucks most everywhere else .