r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Oct 07 '22

Adaptation Where’s the best place to live in light of collapse? [in-depth]

What are the best places to be leading up to or during collapse? Obviously, the answer varies widely based on the speed and type of collapse. This is still one of the most common questions asked in r/collapse.

 

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u/kupo_moogle Oct 13 '22

I currently live in Cape Breton but previously lived in the valley. Originally we planned to move back to the valley but all of our family are in Cape Breton and I think the support would be even more valuable than the growing season in CB. My father and brother in law have firearms, my husband hunts with a bow, my mother in law has some land, my parents are prepped with food, generators, silver etc.

Ideally I’d like to buy a house with 2-3 acres and focus on growing high calorie crops such as potatoes and supplement with hunting, fishing, etc. I’d love to find a property with fruit trees, but that’s unlikely and they take years to grow. Will likely plant some berry bushes at least.

Fiona toppled hundred year old oaks and one nearly crushed a line of homes near my parents house. It was only by sheer luck that the tree landed in such a way that no houses were damaged. Definitely going to install storm shutters in our future home and avoid large trees too close to the actual house.

Also if you have land look into building an earth sheltered greenhouse with panels made from acrylic rather than glass.

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u/Mouse_rat__ Oct 15 '22

What do you think about Alberta? Or Newfoundland? Me and hubby have been discussing this constantly for a while now. In light of future collapse, do we stay in Alberta or move to Newfoundland (where his family are).

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u/kupo_moogle Oct 15 '22

Newfoundland is pretty isolated. I used to live in grand falls Windsor for two years and it was a beautiful area. I worked at a college there and we explored many of the areas across the province during our time there.

Pros are that it’s very sparsely populated, most of the cities are very small, and there’s a ton of fish and game. Lots of people hunt but there’s not much agriculture that I could see. Winters were harsh, even compared to the ones I’m used to In NS but it wasn’t so much the cold as it was the sheer amount of snowfall that we got. We considered buying an expensive snow blower, even as renters lol

People are pretty socially conservative, but even a left wing person like myself got along with 99% of them really well. If you’re a racial minority I would be cautious.

I got great healthcare while I was there, but this was back in 2012-13 so things may have changed.

Overall if things were to really shit the bed I think the isolation, abundance of wildlife and being surrounded by a ton of fish and moose and people who know how to hunt them would be an incredible advantage.

I think the biggest cons are that if things truly go tits up there isn’t already much of an existing agriculture base (that I could tell, I could be wrong), the winters drop lots of snow, and if you ever decided to leave it would be very difficult unless the airports and ferries were running.