A lot of hardcore preppers insist that Tesla Lighter Survival Tool Review you have a bug out bag and a bug out location. Many of them say that when the SHTF, the cities will burn to the ground. And even if they don't burn, the people living in them will starve to death or be murdered by looters.Personally, I don't think things will ever get quite that bad. (The only exception would be if there were an EMP blast or a nuclear war, but that is beyond the scope of this site.) The government has contingency plans for natural disasters such as hurricanes or earthquakes. I'm not saying they'll do a great job (for example, FEMA after hurricane Katrina), but usually order will be restored in a few days, long before people start killing each other for food. There are also contingency plans for an economic collapse. There have been hundreds of examples of economic collapse in history, and it almost never happens overnight. Things can get really bad, but at the same time the descent is slow enough to where the government and the people can adapt and avoid absolute chaos.
So my point is: It's not as dangerous to be in the city during a disaster as most people claim. And if things actually get so bad in the cities that you can't survive there, you won't be much better off in the country, anyway. I want to show you a quote from "The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse." The author, Fernando Ferfal Aguirre, was living in Argentina during the hyperinflation and economic disaster it experienced in 2001. Here's what he has to say about living in the country:
"...the kind of home invasions people living in the country have suffered here in Argentina are the stuff of nightmares. The same tranquility [in the country] that people like so much works in the bad guys' favor. You can scream all you want, but no one will hear you. They can spend days in your house raping and torturing, without worry if a neighbor saw them..."
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