town advantages

TOWN ADVANTAGES

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Before, if you had asked me if there were any advantages to living in town, I would have looked around at my dusty country hovel, sneered at you and spat disgustingly at your feet and proclaimed my distain at your Yuppie Scum high dollar lifestyle.  My primitive sad little homestead was paid off with a due of property taxes at $2 a month whereas you still were most likely kissing the ass of a landlord or banker but even if you were not your taxes on a modest home were still $100 a month.  What advantages outside luxury and decadence?  The only advantage I’ve come across yet was the ability to work a second job for prepping money and that is not even possible in my case because even if I quit writing tomorrow, saving a minimum of twenty hours a week ( mostly research rather than typing ), I’d still be so exhausted from my primary job that I’d have no energy to work another.  The new truck at the food bank is not only extra work in and of itself ( keeping the bosses turd new and shiny ), but it was not long at all before every swinging cheese dingus on the donation route was trying to fill the larger truck up just as full as the much smaller one.  It is at the point, regardless of how fit I am, that it is a race between the economy collapsing and forcing back donations or my body collapsing from the work load ( I don’t want to quit as lifting tons a day is good, paid for exercise-the problem is the weight just keeps increasing as I get older and I’m no Arnold ).

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I’ve now lived in town with the new Old Lady for about seven months.  It is actually very nice.  The home is small but comfortable and she is not one to allow any problem to escalate.  So the landlord chores around the place are simple and easy.  Work is a half mile away rather than six.  This is not an advantage as that was my cardio exercise which is needed but which is falling by the wayside slowly but surely ( see above ).  The money situation is not much worse.  The old Old Lady cost me nearly $100 ( it used to be $50-$75, but, of course, inflation ) in a monthly car rental, with extra cigarettes and booze thrown in to about equal my share of the rent/mortgage here in town.  I pay a bit extra which delivers 24/7 electricity and Internet access, a convenience as far as my writing but certainly a disadvantage compared to my solar power set up as far as interruption potential (  I have a battery trickle charger in 120v left over from my generator days and plan on getting a battery for here in town.  Just lights off an inverter will make the outages much nicer ).

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And yes, the plan is still to stay here in town.  I was pushing for an early mortgage pay-off to have a better financial situation here, thinking that in a economic downturn locally renters might be hard to come by, but it is insane the tax penalties you’d pay, switching from a business expense to income.  So I could be moving pack to the B-POD sooner or later, reluctant girlfriend in tow ( the financial situation is fluid, so it is a fifty-fifty that happens ).  I’m not really worried overly much with crime.  With the high cost of living here a downturn would mean population leaves ( the cold weather would help boost them out as soon as they cut back on the gas or electric ) rather than stays and smolders socio-economically.  Right now I’m living in a very small city rather than a large town, but it is still a rural town at heart and we don’t have minority crime issues.  Goes the economy, crime will of course increase.  But with our gun laws that should center around property crime rather than personal. 

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I can say town living is an improvement in lifestyle but a definite turn to the worse prepper-wise.  More people on an overloaded electric grid.  More people, period.  More people mostly negates the advantages here in our particular building ( temperature stable basement, tree shaded for summer ).  The river is about the same distance from both the city and country homes but of course here you will have crowds there.  There is more fire danger here, more riot potential.  But, of course, my general location is a far better place to face the collapse than most and so this is all relative.  It is not as safe here in the city but more safe than most suburbs elsewhere.  In summation, town is for lazy bastards, not preppers.  And if your bug-out location is close, who cares.  But don’t pretend it is for anything other than luxury and laziness.

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