JayMcB
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Might have been three. This possibility actually had never occurred to my friend beforehand and he was more than a bit naive about the whole thing.
I like apocalypse porn as much as the next guy and seeing as we're talking TEOTWAWKI that may not help you. You would want to be the sniper not the snipee and that means familiar terrain and being among people you know. The idea of taking your family to a retreat is only workable if law enforcement and public order remain pretty much intact.
I found a lot of good ideas for realistic planning for what I think is a possible level of social and economic disruption in Ferfal's account of the 2001 Argentina economic collapse. One of the points he made is that being in an isolated rural location made people easy victims for criminal gangs. Being in a big city was not great either. The sweet spot in Argentina at least turned out to be in locations with medium population density - suburbs - where there is room for chickens and vegetable gardens, etc.
First, reading your previous posts, I respect your intellect. (No BS)
I'm in a metro-west suburb, as are you.
Our house here - I have a +/-2 acre lot, and already have chickens with an enclosed run and a vegetable garden. I've got stored fuel, enough heating fuel to get me through 1 heating season. Enough propane to cook for a year (literally). Our house abuts a ~30 acre conservation area. I also have considerably more firearms than your average metro-west denizen. Framingham center, AKA metrowest FSA central, is less than 7 miles by road from my house. Barely 2 hours at an easy walk, a shorter bike ride, and an even shorter drive on a motorcycle if the roads are clogged. I estimate that we have maybe a week if it goes Argentina-level south. We have almost NO chance of any kind of long term survival there. The population density is simply too high. Everyone will be overrun. It is almost inevitable.
If you think you have a chance, that's a normalcy bias you may want to revisit.
the other reason I don't want to be 'here' is I don't want to have to decide if I need to shoot someone I know who has gone FSA/feral. It's my food. It's my dirt. It's my gas. It's my <insert here>