"Best Place to Survive Global Collapse (Round 1)" Topic

Switzerland?

Go to an extreme third world nation,they will survive.Brush up on stone tool manufacturing skills otherwise.

"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.

British Columbia

It really does depend on what causes the collapse.

Parzival has the right idea though.

Maine

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.

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.

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.

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

You can lump "major metropolitan areas" in with that observation, etotheipi.

The Scilly Isles. I'd have said the Outer Hebrides but I think they're awfully wet and windy these days.

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.

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