Top 10 Reasons Why You’re Probably Better Off Staying In The City During A SHTF Disaster

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If you live in a big city or even a suburb, you’ve probably been told more than a few times that during a serious SHTF disaster, you NEED to get out of the city. It’s the first piece of advice most preppers hear and is generally accepted by every preparedness authority out there. According to popular belief, the big cities are going to be a cesspool of disorder, chaos and will be a virtual time-bomb, ready to destroy everyone left in it. The accepted strategy is that you need to strap on your 50 pound pack, your AR and head to the apparent nirvana that is the rural countryside. Somehow, everything will be OK once you’re out of the big, scary city.

Well, today we’re going to take a deeper look into this assumption and learn why, despite popular preparedness advice, bugging out of the city is probably the worst thing you could do in a SHTF disaster.

Here are 10 reasons why you’re more likely to be safer staying where you are…even in a post SHTF city.

* If you’re a prepper, you’ve probably got quite a bit of food, water and supplies stocked up. How much of it realistically could you fit in your vehicle, or in your bugout bag for that matter? Why stockpile a bunch of preps just to leave them behind at home when you need them the most?

* In episode 932 of The Survival Podcast, (which you can listen to HERE) Jack Spirko interviewed a man named Selco from shtfschool.com. Selco lived through one of the worst real-life SHTF disasters in modern times, The Balkin wars. He specifically said that the rural areas were actually much more dangerous than the cities simply because of the lack of people, the lack of active commerce between people (for re-stocking supplies) and that rural areas could simply not defend themselves from their aggressors. I don’t know about you, but I’m going to take the advice of someone who’s actually been in a SHTF scenario before believing the assumptions of people who haven’t.

* Where do you plan on going? Planning to get out of the city is all well and good, but where do you plan on going? Bugging out to the middle of the woods is a horrible idea (as we went into more detail about HERE) so unless you already have a pre-stocked bugout location to go to all you’re really doing is giving up a comfortable shelter to roam around in the middle of nowhere.

* It doesn’t matter if you’re the next coming of Rambo and think you can defend your location with one hand tied behind your back. Numbers matter. In a real SHTF, without-rule-of-law scenario there’s a real chance that people could band together in groups to take supplies from others by force. We’ve seen this time and time again every time a big hurricane hits America. Your only chance to defend yourself against something like this is with a community of like-minded people willing to help each other. Is it more likely that you’ll find this community in your current neighbors or is it more likely that some random group of farmers is just going to happen to let you in to their close-knit community? I’m putting my money on my neighbors forming a community. Again, Selco described in detail about how neighbors would band together to share resources, defend themselves and even pool resources together to hire bodyguards if needed. This sounds much safer to me than me and my family being on our own or even with a bunch of strangers out in the middle of the country.

* Bugging out is one of the biggest security risks you can take. Everyone seems to think that bugging out is a solution to a security problem. This is far from the case. Bugging out only makes most security problems worse. Sure, if you’ve got a well-stocked bugout location with a close-knit group of preppers waiting for you then yeah ONCE YOU’RE THERE you might be in better shape than you are now. That being said, you still have to get there, and during that time you are completely exposed, without many supplies and you’re essentially a walking Wal-Mart for anyone that sees you. At least for me, everything that I could have at a remote bugout location is right here; supplies, arms, convenience and my community. I don’t need to make that risky trek just to be somewhere with less people.

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