| optional field | 10 Nov 2022 3:55 a.m. PST |
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| WarpSpeed | 10 Nov 2022 7:41 a.m. PST |
Go to an extreme third world nation,they will survive.Brush up on stone tool manufacturing skills otherwise. |
 Parzival  | 10 Nov 2022 2:09 p.m. PST |
"Collapse of society"— so not a physical disaster or a nuclear war. So… a place with fertile farmland and down-to-earth people who believe in hard work and helping out their neighbors in need.
Hmmm… seems like I already live there.
Tennessee for the win. |
 Old Contemptible | 10 Nov 2022 2:34 p.m. PST |
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| Micman | 10 Nov 2022 3:55 p.m. PST |
It really does depend on what causes the collapse. Parzival has the right idea though. |
| TKindred | 10 Nov 2022 3:57 p.m. PST |
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ScottWashburn  | 10 Nov 2022 4:54 p.m. PST |
The problem with places like Tennessee or Maine is that while those areas might do well, they are potentially surrounded by areas who are not doing well and might try to move in on those places that are. So I think being surrounded by some nice barrier like an ocean would be a good idea. Think I'll go with New Zealand. |
| robert piepenbrink | 11 Nov 2022 4:33 a.m. PST |
As noted, it depends a lot on the trigger. I picked thoroughly isolated islands not too badly overpopulated. But if the trigger were a depopulating event--a plague, say--several of those socially stable mainland agricultural regions would move up in the ratings. Never pick an imperial capital such as DC, though: places which survive on tribute can lose 90% or more of population when the empire goes. They may not even continue to exist. |
 etotheipi | 11 Nov 2022 10:12 a.m. PST |
Most third world locations actually survive on tribute in the modern age. Their populations have outstripped their ability to produce. With Parzival on down to earth area and ScottWashburn for finding somplace defensible. |
| Frederick | 11 Nov 2022 12:38 p.m. PST |
Agree that places like New Zealand (or maybe Ireland) would be good – I think Old Contemptible has a good idea; fertile farmland but unlike Tennessee has some nice big mountains to keep people from less fortunate places out Prince Edward Island would also be a good place – great farmland and hard working farmers |
| Parzival | 12 Nov 2022 8:19 a.m. PST |
You can lump "major metropolitan areas" in with that observation, etotheipi. |
| Volleyfire | 13 Nov 2022 5:55 a.m. PST |
The Scilly Isles. I'd have said the Outer Hebrides but I think they're awfully wet and windy these days. |
| COL Scott ret | 14 Nov 2022 6:25 a.m. PST |
I am with Parzival, and Tennessee does have neighbors but most of them are also mostly similar so less likely to join the zombies. They might even work together- once their less survivable urban centers are gone. |
 piper909 | 14 Nov 2022 4:01 p.m. PST |
Mark Twain said "I want to be in Kentucky when the world ends because it's always 20 years behind." Or words to that effect |
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