Many people when they decide to prepare for hard times find themselves fantasizing about a rural homestead deep in the country. It is a fabulous way to live, no question. It’s also something I aspire to do someday because of my love of animals and natural food. My desire to someday live on a homestead property literally has nothing to do with why I prep though.
For 99% of the people who are into preparedness, this just isn’t a feasible option though. We have jobs, we have lives and some of us have kids in school. The notion of just relocating to a rural town and building a farm and raising animals and waiting 5 years for the newly planted apple trees to start producing fruit is not the
Here’s the good news though. Having a bug out location deep in the country is not going to put you in a better position than those in urban and suburban environments. Yes it would be nice to live in nature and pursue the forgotten old ways of milking your own cow and cooking golden crispy fried chicken in some amazing lard from one of your hogs, but this is not giving you any particular advantage for surviving a potential and some believe likely catastrophe. If you don’t live on your homestead full time, chances are you won’t be able to make it to your homestead when the SHTF.
I am preparing because I believe that at some point in time, probably before the end of the decade, we will have to endure an extended period of time without electricity. In another post, I wrote about living through the great blackout of 2003, in which the Midwest and Northeast of the United States and parts of Canada were without powerful for 3 long days. This was a transformative experience for me and was what got me into the concept of prepping. I anticipate one day needing to go 2-3 weeks without power.
Maybe I’m wrong, and there won’t be a power outage that lasts weeks. Maybe it will be something else. I really cannot see a scenario where 6 months or longer of survival is necessary.
