bugging out about bugging out

BUGGING OUT ABOUT BUGGING OUT
First, a word to our sponsor. Thanks, Russell in Udaho ( get it? who da yo?-sorry, easily amusing myself today ) for the way cool care package. Fleece bibs,which are pretty helpful since I have plenty of layers for the torso but not the legs. These are going to be just the thing for pulling an overnighter at the guard detail in December, waiting for the last of the California refugees to come limping along despite our obvious warning signs of impaled skulls. Hopefully by that time we'll have black powder mortars with fuses so we don't waste precious pre-collapse primers or smokeless powder harvesting them for the stew pot ( I hope I'm kidding about that last part ).
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Normally I scream like a little girl at the Hanna Montana movie about the economy, pointing out with trembling finger, pupils dilated, short of breath, some new detail that surely foretells the impending doom we are all about to face. But today, some good news about the economy. The economy is performing so poorly ( all is well, the economy falling at an annualized 6% last quarter and manufacturing slipping 20% is nothing but a blip on our way to rescue by our new hero Uncle Obammy ) that to any thinking person there is no longer a dilemma on how to bug out. It should no longer make any sense to stay with a good paying job and have a retreat in the country. Now, I realize that most if not all of my loyal minions are not really in any position to have a retreat that they must bug out to. However, retreats are not simply a concrete fortress holding an arsenal of semi-automatic poodle shooters. They can be any destination that offers you better surroundings than what you have now. It can be a farm belonging to relatives, a national park the next state over, junk land a few hundred miles away. Even though we envision Yuppie Survivalists when we speak of retreats, all of us can have one even if it is nothing more than a strip of land for a tent.
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Since most of us are forced to work in the city ( including myself- Elko is preferable to most other places I could be, but given my druthers I would love to be a lot farther away from everybody ) for the simple fact that there ceased to be jobs in most rural areas long ago ( for an outsider moving in, anyway ), we don't plan on staying were we are in an emergency. The death of mom and pop stores and the birth of the Big Box Store forced most of us non-college laborers to move to larger urban areas but it isn't the best place to be in the near future. Yes, it's all relative. We want to live in a 10k town instead of a 100k city. Still too many people, but you compromise as few of us can live in isolation ( whether it is even a good idea is another matter ). My point I want to make today is, what are you waiting for to make your move? If the writing is on the wall, why wait to move? Look, we know it s going to get worse. You will eventually lose your job, so why wait around because of your better income? If family keeps you were you are, don't worry. They will eventually lose their job and/or house and they can move in with you at the new location. Staying for medical care or insurance? How long do you honestly think that is going to last ( although to be fair, it does put you in a no win situation )?
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I don't think most of us will dispute the direction the economy is going. It most likely is past the point where it might improve. In the very near future, whatever benefits are keeping you in place will disappear. So why not just bite the bullet and take your loses and move now. We have oil shortages, perhaps martial law in store for us. Why wait until then to try to move? Why wait until you have no cash flow to try to move? Jingle mail your crap, take a lower paying job, get out of the future war zone. Yes, I know, easier said than done. I had a hard time financially moving and that was before the unemployment rate doubled. But, really, if it is just going to get worse, you don't want to wait no matter how bad your prospects look. I'm not saying anything new here. Rawles advises to live at your retreat if possible. All I'm saying now is the economy steadily rushing downhill should make this decision a lot easier than it was. Instead of debating ideal post collapse bug out vehicles we should just get a U-Haul now.
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