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LONG BUG OUT

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You know I hate bugging out, at least for serious distances.  The main problem is that if you haven’t been able to convince yourself to leave the big city now, there is the danger that you’ll keep pretending and extending.  Pretending that we indeed have more time to prep and hence the latest danger signal can safely be ignored, and extending the time you stay in place.  There is of course also the issue of current crime rates, as scary as they are, have to increase after decades of decreasing ( crime always goes up in economic contractions ), and the fact that city cost of living negates most of your perceived higher salary.  Yet, a lot of you are stuck in place and not just because you are too weak to say no to family or are too weak to live a more physical rural life.  Some are genuinely stuck, be it living in a real estate underwater situation where you are legally liable for the balance, or the fact you simply can’t take the chance of not being able to get work in a high unemployment, low land cost area.

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It is perfectly rational to gamble on your current location, as you balance the lower probability of imminent collapse against the guaranteed economic collapse from unemployment with moving.  I understand that my insistence to ignore this and move anyway is, at best, well intentioned but impossible advice.  When the national unemployment was 10% actual and the unemployment at local level was double that at 20% where cheap junk land is, I wasn’t going to move there.  Not while I had to pay child support and jail with AIDS delivery via anal sodomy went along with an inability to pay it.  So I shouldn’t be surprised when nobody wants to move to junk land when the real national unemployment is 30% and so junk land locations are much higher than even that ( nor should I be surprised nobody wants to buy my Texas land for a mere hundred bucks plus $60 in filing fees, when that area has zero jobs ).  Yes, even I get blinded by my own brilliance at times and my junk land living idea is so priceless I was able to ignore its near universal infeasibility.  It was what I was always looking for all my adult life and was an improvement for me.  For everyone else, it seems that no, this is NOT what they want, desire, wish for or even believe to be an option. 

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So you want to either bug in or bug out and just because I denigrate both choices doesn’t mean they are not your only viable choices and I should respect that and work with you.  Of the two, bugging in is the worst choice and we will save that for another day so my pea brain can work on it longer.  Which leaves bugging out as today’s issue.  Can we make it cheaper and safer than conventional advice ( without insisting on bicycles-which I understand are deal killers )?  First off, I don’t believe that bugging out will actually follow conventional scenarios.  More likely, the true civilization collapse will take place over a scale of a few months or even a year rather than overnight.  The stock market collapses and the PetroDollar collapses, both bring on intense issues on their own but it shouldn’t ( could be but more likely won’t be ) be an overnight collapse of civilization itself.  The government won’t fold up its tent just yet.  You should in theory be able to depart in a situation similar to a camping trip rather than a civilian exodus from Paris as the Nazi’s attack.  In theory.

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What I hate about Yuppie Scum bug outs are the assumption you leave after society has descended into anarchy ( they assure a overnight collapse, be it a EMP or solar flare or similar instant apocalypse such as an asteroid or nuclear missile impact ) thereby increasing your odds of dying exponentially.  I also think living in the city currently is a good way of coming to harm now, so a lot of my displeasure also stems from staying around long enough to need to bug out.  You have to admit, in a lot of Third World cities very violent crime is prevalent due to social disorder and government induced anarchy, and a lot of our cities are very close to being one of those crapholes.   In fact, I would even wager that since we massage all of our statistics it isn’t outside the realm of the possible that a lot of ours are worse than a lot of theirs, even with their vastly larger populations.  Such is the nature of lying to the citizens to mask economic collapse.

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But realistically, you can at least relocate to a less large less vicious city and probably already have done so if possible because it is an immediate family safety issue and you aren’t a complete moron.  I hope.  And more likely than not you’ll lose your job in the very beginning of the next and probably last collapse, the ending collapse which includes civilization collapse but starts with the final economic collapse.  So, here is the key.  You won’t move now because you know there won’t be another job elsewhere.  So, if you lose this job, in an environment of national 30% unemployment you can pretty safely guess that this will be your final pink slip.  THAT is your early warning collapse-wise.  You can’t stick around waiting for another job, but rather must go into immediate bug out mode.  Waiting any longer and you drain irreplaceable reserves and start getting in danger of being stuck in place as REAL danger starts erupting.  Things like Black Ghetto extensive riots ( I don’t think Blacks are less intelligent as a race, but I do believe the majority of Blacks in this country were breed to minimize mental capacity and those descendents don’t as a general rule gravitate towards encouraging or fostering mental activities as a whole, on a cultural level.  The GENERAL rule will be for most Blacks to believe in government payola long past governments ability to do so and so until the end Welfare Benefit Increase Riots will be the norm.  Even if it isn’t, then you face the worse Kill Honkie Mo-Fo Riots as ad hoc permission was granted in perpetuity by Obama for such actions ).

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As long as you are bugging out in advance, this is no where near as poor of a strategy as I’ve long held ( taking into account I dislike megopolis living now, and hate bugging out as preached in an atmosphere of during or following an overnight collapse ).  Don’t misunderstand me.  I advocate large city living avoidance NOW.  That won’t change.  Here I am merely stating that if you must live in the bigger cities, you can make that work as a strategy even if I myself am NOT agreeing that it is a good idea.  The best first idea is to minimize how large of a city you must live in, if possible.  The next best strategy would be to move as close to your junk land as possible, while still being employed.  You keep everything in a storage facility and have the means of transporting your equipment there as needed.  This again assumes you are bugging out PRIOR to the real collapse.  Next up would be the least attractive option, long distance bugging out.  Hey, better than nothing, right?

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This assumes you cannot move to a smaller city, nor can you move to a city close to junk land.  It assumes you aren’t going to bug in, because you are not THAT desperate with zero options but can still choose to bug out.  Since you are not planning on waiting until the last minute you don’t need a combat vehicle armed with a combat fire team to fight your way out.  It assumes you can afford junk land now but can’t move there, and that your wages are sufficient enough to keep a dependable vehicle in good working order ( if it isn‘t, there is bugging in or junk land relocation since if you are that poor you are either stuck or footloose ).  It assumes you are still lower middle class rather than poor, and that you have no earthly ability to emulate Yuppie Scum Elite in your financial abilities.  The only thing you must have forefront in your mind is the willpower to leave in time.  This must be war-gammed and decided ahead of time.  You can’t have plans to move with unemployment but with the wife suddenly deciding to stay until you find another job.  You won’t.  The economic collapse is too far along, the end of the PetroDollar too close, the derivatives market too near imploding again for you to believe your job is replaceable this time around.

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You know, I actually tire of repeating this.  Peak Conventional Oil was 2005.  Which brought about the 2007/08 collapse economically.  And following that we have doubled down on every behavior that increased the intensity of that collapse.  It can’t end well and it won’t.  It will be much worse.  You lose your job next time, that is it.  Fini.  Game Over.  GET.  OUT!  That will be your cue.  If you wait much longer there is unrestrained crime, government road blocks and worse.  As it is, you won’t even find gas, even in “peacetime”.  Shortages will be normal, although unemployment and lack of disposable income MIGHT see this as a less severe period than in the 1970’s.  But you’ll definitely need to plan for that.  It won’t be like after the EMP when you have the only working car, but it will be akin to a joy ride through the ghetto at night, danger wise.  This is a viable plan, IF you can leave at the first sign.  Tomorrow I’ll cover supplies and transportation.  For now, you just need to know this is a final unemployment bug out, not a total collapse bug out.  Continued.

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