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Originally Posted by wet dog
Defender968-
If your wife doesn't mind cold winters, the isolation of the Rocky Mountians, (ID, MT, UT, WY, CO, AZ, NM) is a nice place to start. Southwest is a bit milder for seniors.
If wanting to stay in SC, NC, TN, KY, WV, those mountains could quickly be over-run with migrating refugees of the east coast.
WD
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Wet Dog we're going to be limited to the east coast, using a piece of land in the Rocky Mountains would be problematic for vacation as well as retirement, and for a SHTF scenario the Rockies would be too far to do me or my family any good. Also the longer growing season near the Smoky mountains is another benefit of being at a lower altitude further south. You are correct in those areas, but for me it's not going to be feasible for my plans.
I am somewhat concerned by a mass migration, my thought was that I would need to be as self sufficient as possible, use OPSEC, and be well off the beaten path of highways and not visible from the turn off of the small paved public road my property will be off of. I don't think too many city folks fleeing a terrorist attack or pandemic will go wandering up dirt roads in the woods on the off chance of finding somewhere to hunker down. My thought is that they’ll likely head for smaller cities/towns where there are resources, eventually when those resources become scarce they may expand outward from those smaller cities, to towns and so on. In the event they do eventually make it to my doorstep and are determined to harm me and mine I'll have well established DFPs, good fields of fire and a 24/7 security plan in place. Hopefully it will not come to that, but better to have a plan than to rely on hope or luck.
I'm looking at staying away from the major corridors that I think that type of mass migration will follow, i.e. major highways and larger state roads, as well as away from most towns, I want to be pretty far out into a rural mountain setting. I know many folks think they’ll just head to the mountains after an attack, but without a specific destination, good training, and or lots of supplies the average Joe Q. Citizen won’t last long, hell I’ve lived in hurricane prone areas most my life and most the normal folks I know still don’t have more than 3-5 days food on hand if that. So the likely threat as I see it is unprepared folks heading in mass towards the mountains, we’ll already be there and will maintain a small footprint, staying out of sight while maintaining security until the dust settles.