Bugging out of the entire state of Texas is going to be next to impossible unless you're already near the border... And I don't see what the state really matters. We've got rolling hills, woods, rivers and lakes too... I feel pretty good about being in Tx. Also pretty much never have to worry about harsh winters and snow, crop failure from cold, etc. It just gets nasty hot but that's workable. I like how easy it has been to get all my weapons as well.
The farms around our BoL should be fairly self-sufficient, which will reduce the likelihood of our neighbors turning to raiding. Horses and cattle are in abundant supply if you know where to look, and my wife and I do. Not planning on stealing any obviously, but if someone leaves their stuff behind, it becomes fair game after a certain point. Put scavenged food and water out for your pets and see if they eat it or leave it alone after a few nibbles. If your hungry dog/cat rejects your find, it's probably spoiled or poisoned.
You are absolutely right about not being able to bug out of the whole state of Texas - but my other point would be if you can see it from the air, it probably isn't safe - from the standpoint of another world war and a invading country coming here to take us over.
If I was from somewhere else and I wanted to get in - the first two ways I would do it would be either from Mexico - where no one cares or Canada - either across the north pole or through Alaska.
From what I understand there is some mountains north of El Paso...
The other point is - wasting food.
I can see that you have never been homeless and you have never had to do without.
If you had to live like that then you would understand that you don't throw out hotdogs or bologna just because it turned green and you don't throw out bread - just because it has mold on it and you don't throw out food just because it looks or smells funny!
I can remember keeping my food in a small spring of running water, and drinking milk even when it was 90* outside and buying ice when I could afford it and eating what ever I could find - even if it was roadkill - just to get a little meat inside of me.
Maybe this is one of the things that makes me so hard to understand - some people calls it being mean or rude or unfeeling.
If the world comes to an end and everybody is looking for handouts - you can bet your bottom dollar that you aren't going to find any food in a store and the people that does not have food will eat anything they can catch or steal.
I never stole, not even food!
I picked things in the woods such as Princess Pine - for $.17 cents a pound and then carried it - sometimes more then a mile and then paid someone to haul it for me and then paid for the supplies to pick more - just so I could afford a little propane and some ice and some milk and some food. If you picked for 10 hours in a really good patch - you could pick 100 lbs in one day!
The problem is - if something bad happens - there won't even be those kinds of jobs and there won't be any money and there won't be any stores to buy food in!
One of the things I hate the most is these Moonshiner and Ginseng pickers and gold hunters that makes you think all you have to do is move there and pick it up off the ground and turn it in for big money! That kind of stuff just doesn't happen in the real world!
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