When you realise your dream home is in a bad location!

[poppypiesdad]

Is she /he not dead ?

J

[Deeps]

Is she /he not dead ?

J

Think lookalike, been in the Scottish news a lot recently what with the election coming up and her.........running the country.

[Medusa]

Topic de-railed by the Krankies! Thanks guys for all your thoughts, I think my mind has been wandering recently to thoughts of wanting a piece of woodland, or a small holding and I got to thinking a bit much maybe. As for local skill sets husband was agriculture based and now a skilled tradesman and can pretty much turn his hand to anything. I was at one time agriculture based too and can still be pretty much hands on but perhaps need to re-learn some of my former skills. My former neighbour was likely a prepper but never said so but disappeared off to Scotland a few years ago so now it all makes sense!! The rest of the neighbours seem to be pretty much office based, sports fans but we have lots of local friends who also have excellent skill sets around agriculture.

[jansman]

Is she /he not dead ?

J

Think lookalike, been in the Scottish news a lot recently what with the election coming up and her.........running the country.

brilliant!!!! LMFAO!

[Hamradioop]

Is she /he not dead ?

J

Think lookalike, been in the Scottish news a lot recently what with the election coming up and her.........running the country.

Seems I am not the only one that noticed they were twins.

[Arzosah]

loving the Krankies

Medusa, buying an extra bit of land nearby you, a woodland, is that a possibility? http://www.woodlands.co.uk/ It sounds like your setup locally is brilliant, so moving isn't *necessary* - but having some woodland locally of your very own could be wonderful - lots of nut trees to plant, as fast growing as possible, or even find a field to buy and plant it up that way. But that would be pleasure too, for sure

Re-learning and practising skills is always good.

Topic de-railed by the Krankies! Thanks guys for all your thoughts, I think my mind has been wandering recently to thoughts of wanting a piece of woodland, or a small holding and I got to thinking a bit much maybe. As for local skill sets husband was agriculture based and now a skilled tradesman and can pretty much turn his hand to anything. I was at one time agriculture based too and can still be pretty much hands on but perhaps need to re-learn some of my former skills. My former neighbour was likely a prepper but never said so but disappeared off to Scotland a few years ago so now it all makes sense!! The rest of the neighbours seem to be pretty much office based, sports fans but we have lots of local friends who also have excellent skill sets around agriculture.

[Medusa]

Thanks Arzosah! I am familiar with the woodland website and have been browsing it and reading some of the info for quite a while. Buying a piece of woodland is on my wishlist but not a viable option for at least another couple of years or so. Enjoyed reading your blog

[Arzosah]

Glad you enjoyed reading the blog

I should have known that you knew that woodland website - anybody would, who longs to buy a little bit of land **coughs and looks around innocently**.

[junmist]

Sounds like you have a double edge sword with the main road as it will be the one most people will use to head out on, but on the other hand you have a head start on everyone else. No one lives in the perfect location its all about making the best of what you have, You can have rabbits and a few chickens in the garden (children's pets ) grow the fruit/nut trees and then go out and plant them around, if you don't have room on your property think of it as community gardening you are helping others throw some seeds over the garden fence and let them grow or not at lest you will see if they are hardy or not. Sounds like you already have the start of a good community around you so think about doing fun things with them that are leaning towards preps.

[grenfell]

What deeps says.

You are where you are. Preps are not just about fortresses and stockpiles, but also about neighbourhoods, contact with people, local resilience and resources, and future-proofing. Where we live is vulnerable to zombie apocalypse, but it's also great for transport, facilities, green space, and getting older, which is much more likely to happen. I know that our pals on this street would take us in if the house burnt down, at least for a short time.

Probably the best post in this thread. Community and cooperation is truly the way ahead , forget all the Hollywood claptrap about a couple of survivors holding out while the rest of the world goes to pot. Throughout human history ( and from what we understand from pre history too) humans have lived in groups of several "families" for want of a better term . I've seen the figure of around 125 put forward as an "optimum" number to allow for a community to have close ties with one another while still retaining the ability to specialise and thus thrive. If we look at modern humans in the third world , indigenous peoples , they all live in an extended family or social unit . The lost people of the amazon ( there was a documentary aired recently) clung together in tribal units albeit quite small. Very few examples of individual living can be found , hermits or Japanese soldiers perhaps .
I'm also not fully convinced that huge numbers of people will leave the city in a sort of mass exodus. Maybe a sort of trickle or steady flow as we have seen in Syria and the Middle East . A really huge movement of people tends to happen in wartime in advance of an invading army which unfortunately means a more remote location will give scant protection once that army has advanced past your location. It's also worth noting that there's practically nowhere in the uk that isn't within a few days or at worse a weeks walk from a city so there's every chance you will be found or stumbled upon. Personally I think most people will stay where they are for quite a while even in the event of an end of the world scenerio . At least long enough for diesease to spread , meaning it's not the people you should be concerned with but the germs they could be carrying .
Stay where you are and make the most of it . It's really unlikely that the world is going to turn to brown smelly stuff anytime soon.