My opinion is very simple, if you go where most people are unwilling to go.
If you live where most people are unwilling to live, you will live.
If you do what you need to do to take care of yourself and you are mobile, able to move camp if need it be - you will live.
If you sit in your house with your rose colored glasses on and think that the people that works at the electric company, water company, gas company, sewage company - is still going to supply these resources if there is no money and or if another entity is invading your country, you are sadly mistaken.
When you have neighbors that has to go to town on a daily basis - else they don't eat, because they don't have any food stored in their house and they live hand to mouth, how do you think these people are going to live when there is no food in the grocery stores?
I live in a duplex and my best friend lives on the other side of the house.
He is a alcoholic and has begged money from all of his friends, which has alienated his friends from him - because he owes everyone money.
His children are more sophisticated, if they want something they just wait until you leave and they steal it. If you don't give it to them, they will come and damage your equipment - just to make you mad.
They have gone so far as to take their girlfriends door to door, make up some sob story about their hard times or how they need money for diapers or gasoline and then drive to town and buy dope with the money.
ARE THINGS GOING TO GET WORSE OR BETTER WHEN THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE FOR THESE PEOPLE TO COLLECT AND THE BEER DISTRIBUTOR RUNS OUT OF BOOZE?
You are going to have all kinds of weirdo's come out of the woodwork that is going to be banging on your door wanting to borrow something - because while you skimped and saved, they lived, drank, screwed and drugged themselves into a stupor. I had to set some cruel rules for these people and I had to lay the law down on them on more then one occasion.
You don't know how bad things can get if you never experienced hard times. I'm not talking - just not being able to pay your bills, but real hard times - like when there is no work and you don't have any money and you don't have any food and you don't have any place to live and you are desperate and you will do what ever it takes to take care of your family.
A person can stick their heads in the sand and believe that it's not going to be this way, but I can already see it coming in another generation or two anyways. There is 3 people working in my town and 7 people collecting a check! How long can this lifestyle last? This is going on everywhere.
The rich refuses to take care of the poor, and why should they.
If a person is not willing to work, then they deserve to starve!
Politically, our president is looking out for his own people.
He is giving them cell phones - so he can track where they been and who they been talking to and what they are doing. It makes it much easier to catch dope dealers and terrorists when they are text messaging each other on a daily basis. You don't have to have so many poleice...
The drugs are injected into society to get the masses to conform.
It is easier to keep people in one place if they have a steady stream of drugs to keep them high and drunk.
Even in Vietnam - the sergeants sold the grunts drugs so they wouldn't go AWOL and so they would fight. The officers made large sums of money!
The hippies of the 60's turned into the entrepreneurs of the 70's and 80's.
The profits from the sales of drugs fueled the economy, lot's of non taxable dollars being distributed.
Our countries investment in technology has only fueled this disbelieve that we don't need to work anymore and that we can invest our money wisely and live off of the profits. No one wants to work and there is no reason for them to work as long as people are going to give them handouts.
When the gravy train ends, we are going to have all kinds of desperate people looking for what they can get.
Your house is going to be a easy target.
If an invading country drops a bomb, the effects of the bomb is going to be more severe in a populated area then in a sparsely populated area.
You need to have the option of leaving - bugging out, getting out of Dodge!
As others has said, unless you live in a concrete bunker, you might as well forget it being a defense-able position. And that is just my two cents!