10 Dangerous Locations Where Relocation or Retreating is Your Best Option

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 22, 2009 -- Although neighborhood survival is a preferable strategy, the reality is that not all neighborhoods are survivable or even worthy of the investments of time and resources to make them survivable. The following are some of the characteristics of neighborhoods where relocation or retreating may be your best strategy:

1) Any location like New York City, Washington DC, or Chicago where local gun grabbers have effectively taken away or severely restricted your right to own and bear arms.

2) Any location within blast effect range of a low (10 KT) to mid range (250KT) yield nuclear ground blast for strategic nuclear terror targets. This would include the following locations: Washington DC, New York City, the Port of Long Beach, the Port of Los Angeles, the Houston Ship Channel / Texas City refinery complex, Chicago, and San Francisco. In addition, in the event that there is a nuclear detonation within 300 miles of your location, temporary relocation or retreating to areas outside of the fallout plume should be considered a necessity if you do not have a suitable fallout shelter.

3) Any location where gangs such as MS13 are dominant and effectively out of control.

4) Any location that is in a flood zone or a coastal area regularly threatened by hurricanes. Do not assume that flood or hurricane relief will continue in the future in places repeatedly harmed by flooding, storm surge, and/or hurricane winds. There was a lot of construction in the past two decades in places where homes should never have been built.

5) Locations where you depend on city water and have no backup sources of water (rivers, ponds, streams, well(s), lakes, rain water harvesting and storage) within walking distance of your neighborhood. Put simply, there are some locations, particularly in desert and semi-arid regions, that are massively over populated relative to their local water supplies.

6) Any location where there is contamination or a high risk of contamination in the event of a prolonged failure of the electric grid. If the land has been poisoned such that you cannot drink the water or grow food on it, you either have to mitigate this risk (water filters; significant importing of clean soils for container gardening) or plan on relocating or retreating.

7) Any location in areas that have a high risk of earthquakes where your building has a high risk of building collapse because of poor building design or the failure to make prudent investments to strengthen buildings and mitigate earthquake hazards.

8) Any location where there is a high risk of wild fires. This is fixable but requires a community effort to cut back vegitation growth.

9) Bedroom communities where very few neighbors know each other or are at home during standard business hours. This could be fixable but it would require a lot of extra effort.

10) Communities where there are no garages (eliminates your ability to operate light industry from your home) and little or no land that could be used to grow food or raise livestock. This includes most apartments, condos, and townhouses. Although you may not be able to grow 100% of your food on a typical suburban stand-alone single-family home lot, 0.15 to 0.20 acres is enough to grow a lot of food - particularly in locations with good climate, lots of rain, and plenty of sun. These could be somewhat mitigated if there are common or public locations that could be divided into garden plots (e.g. Russian dachas) assigned to each family or tenant.

Note that it might be possible to mitigate a few of these characteristics through significant investments in time and resources. Likewise, some risks, particularly those associated with natural disasters, might be considered acceptable risks that could be hedged through prudent preparations, fire/flood/earthquake insurance, and temporary relocation plans.

If your neighborhood is not survivable, your best solution is to relocate to one that is survivable. I believe that your survival retreat should be your full-time home. However, I do recognize that limited resources, jobs, schools, and family obligations can limit one's ability to relocate, making retreats a better option for some.

More information can be found online at http://virginiapreppersnetwork.blogspot.com/2009/02/10-dangerous-locations-where-relocation.html

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