SIX MONTHS ESCAPE/PREP 10
( Six Months To Escaping
The Rat Race And Preparing For The Apocalypse Cash On The Barrelhead )
Living Free And Sleeping
Soundly
Your mileage may of course
vary, but what we have here in general terms is giving up a location you enjoy
( climate wise anyway-perhaps not so much population/culture wise ) and moving
to one that kind of sucks, in exchange for living free and sleeping soundly at
night. I enjoy living in the high desert
( it ain’t like the Sahara which is low desert, with 120 degrees. It is like Mongolia with below freezing winds
), but I think I’m an anomaly. Yet that
is where most of the cheap land is. You
might get a cheap city lot in the Rust Belt for the same price, but you will be
living in a denuded war zone. You can
pick east Texas for under two grand a lot, but it is Texas, and it is full of
dissatisfied minorities and has no jobs.
There is no great place with junk land.
You have to be willing to pay a non-monetary price to set yourself free
on a budget. Personally, I think you all
can have your wonderful weather and good jobs.
I’ll take my freedom. It is worth
pedaling to a minimum wage job in minus fifteen degrees. Okay, I can’t grow any of my own food. That sucks.
So does living in fear of being evicted from a piece of land where you
can farm.
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For two thousand dollars,
you are forever divorced from rent and a mortgage. Perhaps you spend a bit more or a bit
less. I spent more, but it came with
good employment and a river a mile away.
For another grand you have built your own shelter. It is primitive, but it is cash up front and
you can add on as money comes in. It ain’t
a debt. That is the important
thing. For a family of three, you end up
spending three grand on storage food. It
seems like a lot, but you can do it $50 at a time and in the end, knowing your
family can survive five years cut off from civilization is priceless. It is also one fifth the cost of a crappy car
that will eventually rust away, and less than five years the cost of cable TV (
get a roof antenna ). Every month you
have one cell phone, you could be buying wheat for a month for three people. It is peace of mind. You can’t lose your place you are living on
and you can’t starve to death. And a
mere grand to arm the family? Come
on! For half the cost of a single battle
rifle with mags ( but no ammo ), both adults have long guns AND nearly a
thousand rounds of ammo each. This is to
protect what you now have. Seven to nine
grand, and you can relax about most crap that is coming barreling down at us. A lot of scratch, but not with two people
sacrificing for a mere half a year.
Instead of both of you giving up TV and spending your evenings learning
martial arts or tactical carbine shooting as you are living in a McMansion with
SUV‘s, vague dreams of retreating in your minds, you both dedicate yourselves
to a one time hard task, a difficult but extremely rewarding endeavor, that
frees you from the suburbs forever, frees you from slaving away for a car you
don’t really want except to keep you in serfdom, frees you from sleepless
nights as the dangerous ghettos close in on your poorly constructed overpriced
sheetrock mansion and you have nightmares of losing the jobs that keep you
sheltered. So much, for so little, for a
one time sacrifice. Think about it.
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I think living in the high desert is like living on the moon. You have to take all your consumables with you. I don't have the food storage you do. However, I've practiced living off the land, and gained weight doing it. Maybe that's one of the reasons I'm not a desert person. Food storage is to even out the food supply. Sometimes it's feast and sometimes it's famine. The big thing for me is that I've got good natural sources of fresh water.
ReplyDeleteThe desert is a good strategy, just not for me. Good thing, you've got enough crazy neighbors as it is.
It is surprising how few people give this any thought, yet hate their jobs and their lives. Not only have you shown a way to get off the hampster wheel, you've done it yourself.
High Desert Survival Living isn't all that tough come the Die-Off. The hard part is afterwards. So, I've just flipped the comeuppance time frame. It ain't any better, just different.
DeleteWhat's wrong with martial arts. Our whole family goes to martial arts 2x a week. It's a great family activity and we're keeping fit in the process. Plus, it's a lot of fun
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I make fun because it is one of the fifty-three must do Yuppie skills needed to become a Super Semi Warrior
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