flee in 30 days part 3

FLEE IN 30 DAYS part 3

You have a month to move.  Yes, it is arbitrary.  But any longer and most of you will have your attention span challenged.  It is pulling off a band-aid, not planning for the loyal wedding of the century.  Plus, I’m kind of trying to explain the obvious here.  How friggin easy it is to get out of a very unsafe area.  Worried about not finding another job?  Hell, how secure is the one you have now?  It isn’t any harder finding one there than here ( within reason ).  I know my boss will drop me at the first sign they can find another sucker to fill in for me ( of course, good luck with that.  This is the first time I’ve ever felt I have good job security.  Who else is going to work this hard for this little of pay?  I think we’ll go out of business first ).  So, as soon as you decide what you are going to do ( move to an apartment with junk land nearby, move out to the land with a trailer, whatever ), you spend all your free time looking for that junk land.  Send a mail order overnight or pay on a debit card for a down payment ( almost all junk land sellers finance you, and you don’t need a credit check.  Just cash, and on time payments ) and put in your two week notice at work. 

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Now you liquidate everything you possibly can.  I kept my sensible revolver and sold my two boy toy .45’s ( private sale at retail cost with mags and ammo thrown in and they sold the first half day of a one day ad ) and that paid for gas across the country, motel stays ( way too humid to sleep in the van as originally hoped ) and meals ( supermarket cold foods the first two and a sit down hot one at the end of the day-I don’t do well at all driving in the dark so we only did twelve hour days ).  I had credit cards at the time which bought the van at the beginning of the trip and the travel trailer at the end of it.  Not the smartest financing but it got us out of crowded Florida to a great western locale.  With no savings and one low paying job between the two of us.  We walked away from our mobile home which we had paid 25% down on just a year or two before.  When you want to move, these things take on far less importance.  No jobs were waiting for me.  Granted, this was just after 9/11 and jobs were easy to find ( our initial destination-warmth for the spouse-was Kingman Arizona.  No job prospects there all week long so we moved up to Nevada.  That worked out much better.  Kingman was full of Yuppie Scum and has no surface water.  My pale northern European skin also burned within hours.  Land was darn cheap, even in town, but with no jobs…). 

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It’s scary out there, employment wise.  Worse case, if I can’t find another job here I can always get on Food Stamps and crash at my B-POD rather than pay rent in town.  But it is still worrisome, and I am in a much better position than most of you as far as employment.  I wouldn’t want to make another move across the country at this point in our economy.  But I am of course far more paranoid than most of you and panicked early.  So you are in the position of staying in a scary crime ridden turd of a huge city which in the event of a collapse will become unlivable even if you have a wicked cool semi-auto concealed carry gun and an armored SUV.  And you are anchored there by your job.  A job which won’t be there much longer given the direction of our economy.  Think on this.  In 2008, within a half a week the economy almost went tits up.  You had little warning.  What?  You think it will be different next time?  It won’t.  Zero warning, immediate catastrophe.  Just think back to how bad things were then for the next couple of years with the lay-offs and the local governments running out of money and the high unemployment.  And that was with the bail-outs.  You MUST panic early.

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I read an interesting statistic the other day that the majority of Americans never live more than fifty miles from the same spot all their lives.  I have a hard time counting all the times I’ve moved in my life ( 30-40+ ) and for me it is no big deal.  Or, it was no big deal.  Now I’m rooted and refuse to even vacation far from here.  The big deal for most of us is being able to give up everything normally construed as an investment, plus worrying about employment at our destination.  Yet, most of you are at a higher skill set than I am in employment.  Why haven’t you moved?  Surely your odds of finding a job surpass mine?  And it isn’t the problems you shall face moving now, it is the far more serious ones later if you refuse to move now.  Right now, moving moves you around in the frying pan.  Trying to move later, you are forced to jump from the pan into the fire.  It is really as simple as that.  Look, all those people who were convinced the end was nigh, back in the ‘70’s or ‘90’s?  You can’t claim they screwed up, because they are the ones who got in early and got to move to a great location which was expensive then but cheap compared to today’s prices, plus they found steady employment and learned homesteading while there was still time.

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NOT moving NOW is the wrong course of action, not moving way too early.  Once you resolve yourself, it is as simple as liquidation and packing.  The move itself is easy ( of course, given Murphy’s Law which ALWAYS manifests itself during a move-trust me, I’ve had plenty of experience-you need to double the anticipated money, time and trouble and plan accordingly ).  Even if nothing goes right, it is a great learning experience.  I know, easy for me to say as I won’t be giving up my house or job or marriage.  Hey, I’ve been there and bought the T-shirt.  I know the disruption and loss.  I also know I finally got it right and found a location that will suit me come retirement or collapse.  In the end, after a high price, it is worth it.  If you don’t actually think we will collapse any time soon, just find a nice $50 a month junk land payment and a affordable used travel trailer and plan on retiring there.  Worse case, you can move there during the collapse, without any disruption before that.  Have everything in place.  The land, trailer in the back yard, savings.  And move in two weeks once the next economic collapse begins-and again, without any disruption now.  Come on!  You can’t handle $50 a month now?  I’ll bet you a jelly filled donut that right now there are junk land lots in Arizona and Elko that are $50 a month, and that is without having looked on E-Bay for the last few weeks.  Again, this stuff is easy.  The resolve is the issue.

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