reply to post by OrphenFire
How well this would work out for you depends on a number of things... especially cosidering the realities of what ChosenWonn just laid out...
-What sort of reserve funds do you already have tucked away?
-Do you already have a truck?
-Do you already have tools & equipment that you'll need to sustain yourself, and, even better, tools that will make you more useful for doing various
jobs for other people?
-Are you already experienced at gardening, or any of the other things you're going to need to do?
-How much property do they live on? What are the property taxes? Will you be able to truck in a trailer or build some other scructure seperate from
the parents house so you dont end up in ChosenWonn's scenario?
-Is there already pastures, or will you be facing having to clearcut land and rip out stumps to have soil to plant in?
-Is there bodies of water nearby to have access to some good meat you dont have to raise?
-Are there good shallow ponds you can use to spawn crayfish in? (You can get a LOT of pounds of crayfish per acre of pond, and grow water crops in
there with them and perhaps even algae for biodiesel)
-Are there already fruit tree sources on their land?
-Have you taken the time to learn about all of the cold season crops you can grow thru the winter, and could you live comfortably off of them alone
for many months if need be? (There are actually quite a few good ones that will survive the cold, mostly green leafy plants (just about all of them),
but also snow peas, lentils, fava beans, celery, cauifower, broccoli, cilantro, probably all types of onions and some others that arent mere 'leafy'
plants.)
...and I'm sure plenty of other questions I cant think of right now.
The economy is going to collapse, sooner or later anyways. So trucing out of the stomped anthills could have you ahead of the curve... but who knows
when the total collapse will take off, so if you get too far ahead of the curve you'll end up maybe far behind.
[edit on 9-4-2010 by IgnoranceIsntBlisss]
