The Importance Of Community In Survival

I don't care how well prepared you are, if you live in the wrong place and the SH'sTF, you are not going to make it. Really think about this statement.
If you are in a City or Urban area, with lots of gimme type people. People who go to the store every night to buy their dinner. People who's biggest concern in life is being attached to their social media device, you are in trouble. Liberal areas are going to be the worst.
How many people in your neighborhood are prepared to last even a month on their own ?
I just read one post where the person was talking about OPSEC as to prepping supplies. They had a flood, word got out to one neighbor that they had food and in a day, 90 people were at the door begging for food and supplies. If all goes south, people will not just be begging, they will be doing their best to take what you have.
That nice guy down the street when he see's his kids with no food will turn into the protective animal who will do anything to get food for his family.

In many areas, people will eat each other. We all know the Government will be of little help when the SHTF. If anything, they will be one of your biggest problems.

A remote bug out location is only safe until a group finds you and wears you down until they get what you have. Alone without others of like mind and preps, you will be in trouble.

Your best bet for survival is to find a community where just about everyone is a prepper. I live in such a community. People here have food, water sources, guns, ammo and the know how and have the equipment and tools to survive far better than the vast majority of cities, towns and county's in this country.

It's not perfect, but to me, close as can be. People here will form a common defense of our town and area.
There are a couple smaller cities not too far away, but even many there are of a prepper mindset.
When you make the drive to the Walmart in the closet of the smaller cities, you will see some locals open carry their firearms, many more are CCW, and this is in a small city.

There are only three roads that lead into our town. Towns on those roads before they get to our town will do their best to stop anyone from getting to them. They are a buffer for us.

Our town is made up mostly of generational family's who were farmers and ranchers. People who know the importance of being stocked up.

I don't think there is any perfect place. That said, if you can, find a place where people of like mind to you live and if there is anyway possible to do so, move there. These types of communities are out there, you just have to find them.
These are places who judge you on the type of person you are. Don't move to such a community and try to change it into a place like where you came from. If you don't accept the ways of your chosen community, and it's the type of community I've suggested, you will not be accepted.
It is common knowledge that most all here have food and weapons. There may not be open discussion of everything you have, but just about everyone knows that most can hold out on their own. If the SHTF, people here will work together, trade, barter and survive.
The farmers have told the locals that if food is no longer available, their vast stores of food will be for the community.

It's also a gun friendly place. Open carry, Constitutional Carry, no restrictions on the type of gun or it's accessories outside of federal law. The Law Enforcement here is on the side of the people. They are people we know, people who live in our community.
We have little crime, some drug use, but it's not seen much, it's been many years since we have had a local murder. It's a place that the locals walk the streets with no fear of being attacked, robbed or molested. There is respect for others.
Were I not to watch the news or read anything, I would think all was well in America, living where I do.

It's not easy to pick up and move to another community. I've done it three times before settling on where I live now. You may have to downsize your grand lifestyle; work a different type of job, but trust me, it can be done if you are willing to work.

If you are truly concerned with a total break down of society, you cannot afford to be in the wrong place when it happens. Not if you have any hope of surviving.

My two cents.

 

By that time, it may be too late. That is the point of my post. Get while the getting is good.

People outside of the cities are not going to take in city dwellers after the balloon goes up, at least not willingly.

 

Cities are sheeple factories!
All it will take is a few to be seen fleeing for the mindless stampede to commence!

Oh look Fred and Wilma are packing the car in a hurry , oh look they have just bolted!
Barney we should go to! oh and that odd couple down the road have just left packed right up they are!
Barney we should go! Barney we must go! get packing right now!
and so it go's!
No one wants to be last!

 

That's the problem with shows like that' they put a bunch of Metrosexuals, crybabies and animal rights morons who don't have a lick of life experience or know their butt from a hole in the wall and expect them to "Survive". It's all just for ratings. These are the people who will be dead in the first 2 weeks of any real event.

 

I agree with most of the opening post Doubletap45 presented . To take up residence in a prepper minded community is a huge plus to survival . But not for the purpose of taking advantage of your neighbors . The purpose would be to surround your environment with people that would not become starvingly desperate people seeking your stuff . Forming some kind of community support should be way , way down the list on importance . A community milita to repeal the unprepared is one of the few instances I could see a thorough prepper considering community support .

 

I live in a rural community here in the U.S. that a ice storm left the entire community without electrical power about six weeks and for most of these people it meant no running water as they were operating on their own water wells . That also meant all stores and businesses shut down ," except for our local liquor store " . No one died as the result , to the best of my knowledge . Most everyone stays prepared for at least a few weeks . That's why I found it so ridiculous on another thread a so called "expert " advised everyone to be prepare to survive for " 3 " days . I suspect this community would have survived for many more weeks with few if any casualties . Most are not as hard a core a prepper as my neighbor across the creek or me as we prep to last indefinitely . I suspect there are other pockets in the U.S. containing a prepper minded community .

 

Good morning Poltiregist,

Forgot if it was here at msf.com or another site, but I explained the background of the 3 day supply loadout. We do have an abundance of "experts" throughout the country.

The 3 day "rule" started when the National Guard and the active military could arrive with supplies prior to 3 days' time.

So many are now welfare recipients of various programs that changing the 3 day rule to the more realistic 30 (thirty) days means the US Government must fund the increased supply. This just cannot be done. Thus, the old 3 day rule remains as the basic guide for the public. Imagine the additional costs to run a high rise Section 8A housing complex for a month's duration. Imagine the lawsuits and the rest of the routine.