by Lighthouse » Thu 01 Jun 2006, 23:39:44
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You settle on that nice piece of land. You dig the well, build a house, clear the land, get your crops in, etc.
Then, one fine morning you walk out your front door, yawn, stretch, and get a .308 slug right through your heart. Your body is disposed of, and your murderers move in.
If TS does in fact HTF, and law and order breaks down, how will those of you who envision a wilderness idyll manage to defend yourselves from those who will be lying in wait, ready to pick you off and take what you have built?
Maybe, but if you have strong ties with your local community it will be very hard to settle on your land after they have killed you.
Remember there is no such a thing as self sufficiency. You always need others to share, to barter, to help and to get helped, to survive. Yo can not have all the skills needed to have a nice live after TSHTF. That's what a strong community is for.
If one member of the community is killed by some outsiders, who move in and live then on his property, the community will definitely take care of this thread.
Again they can not survive alone ... and they have to sleep now and then ...
Secondly I doubt that hordes of heavily armed but weak and hungry zombies out of a abandoned city will have the energy to take over some land or the skills to farm it. I think most of will fight over the last resources in the city and will not make it to the outer suburbs.
I do not say it will not happen, but I'm saying it's not very likely that it will happen.
And you always have a couple of good rifles plus ammunition on a farm anyway ...