[alecifel]

One of the benefits of PO is that the thugs at least will have to walk if they want to leave the city and go foraging. If you don't have a dollar for a donut you won't be able to drive far (especially not in the 20-year old pickup trucks they tend to roll around in.) I live 20 miles out, and 15 miles past the outer suburban rings of OKC (which are almost nonexistent on its northeast side.)

The country will not be the first place over run by bandits. The city is already over run by bandits and will become more so. To date I have seen no record of a population exceeding its carrying capacity that has abandoned its fields and moved into the cities!

The best thing to do for PO is stay where you are. It's what your familiar with, you know already how to make it there, and it does not benefit you to move into a strange area this late in the game.

[LateGreatPlanetEarth]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('alecifel', '
')On the other hand, the country is going to see a lot of vagrants. The people who can't make it in the city, who lose it all, are going to start wandering and foraging. We'll be able to take a lot of them in and have a good workforce for raising food (sharecropping etc.) but if you live in the country like I do, be sure to keep your guns in good operating condition and a close relationship with your community. And don't allow an abandoned home to stand... it'll attract the wrong kind of people.

[AWPrime]

There is something on the gun, it is called a trigger.

[LateGreatPlanetEarth]

can't shoot people on your land since the lawsuit will give that land to plaintiff for damages.

[Revi]

I don't think that rural communities will profit from peak oil. It'll be like Russia after the collapse of communism. Rural areas were areas to eke a living, maybe stay alive. Cities will turn into even more hellish places than they are now. What was in the middle, suburbia will really be unliveable without cheap energy. I suppose it will be a choice of barely eke a living in the country or move to the city and live crammed into small accomodations, surrounded by crime. I'll take the country.

[AWPrime]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('LateGreatPlanetEarth', 'c')an't shoot people on your land since the lawsuit will give that land to plaintiff for damages.