sucks less

SUCKS LESS


Do you recall seeing those nicotine gum commercials? Quitting sucks, brand X nicotine gum makes quitting suck less. While there is probably no one place that is perfect to live, there are a lot of places that don’t suck as much. Nevada is one such place that sucks less. And of course, it sucks a whole lot less as a place to live during the die-off. I think it has great potential post-collapse, but there is a lot of assumption built into that. Today, even though I’ve covered it before ( and quite frankly, what the hell are you doing expecting something unique or different? ), the reason why Nevada is much better than your crap hole for surviving the end of the Oil Age.

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I’m not going to get into the tax rates and gun laws like I just did with the low unemployment states. Those kinds of numbers are helpful but they are usually taken as a whole, mixed up, shaken and stirred and then averaged out to either a “sucks” or a “doesn’t suck that bad”. You can’t really expect more than “doesn’t suck too bad”. Every place has its problems, and the place you choose to stay has the least of them, not an absence of them. Idaho might be trumpeted as the Super Deluxe Orgasmic Delight Destination for survivalists but it has its share of issues, from lack of employment ( this as before the current melt down ) to one of the top three destinations of the Golden Horde. It has food production in the mountains. California Pukes will be en route. As you might have gotten a clue about if you’ve subjected yourself to reading this site very long, I’m not a huge fan of conventional “wisdom”, especially not in the prepper/survivalist movement. I take delight in being its gadfly, both because I get to be contrary and because I get to tell people that they are full of crap. I would not recommend Idaho. I would not recommend agricultural areas. I would not recommend the South. Now, please don’t get me wrong. A paid for piece of land anywhere is better than a mortgage in the “better” place. Just as a bizarre rifle in a strange caliber is the perfect survival gun if you are proficient with it. The number one problem you are going to face in the journey towards the collapse is having a place to live. Everyone will lose their job, it only being a question of when. The second most important is going to be a food supply. I’m only talking about relocation if you have nothing to lose. If you are able to shelter in place without the bank repoing you, stay where you are ( if you are in a huge metro area and can actually sell your place and relocate, that is a different story. The priority is being debt free ).

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The South is a great place to live now. I love the culture and the people. Far more than I like former Californians cluttering up the desert. The winters are a delight. However, after the collapse, there will be malaria and race wars. Perhaps even Gore Warming flooding, but I think that is the least of your problems. You will have to concern yourself with immigration from the north, especially during and after the first winter. Agricultural areas will be a magnet for the idiots, not realizing that a hundred years of mechanized farming have stripped the soil of natural fertility, or that water is pumped up by electricity. Plus, both those areas are already crowded now ( if not directly next to the fields, very close in the closest metro area ). We can all agree that there are far too many people living in this country and come the collapse they will be trying to stuff you in the stew pot. Best to be away from them before they get their lazy fat asses off the sofas and into a lather over the lack of government checks.

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Alaska has 1.2 people per square mile. Nevada has 23.4, which is a heck of a lot. However, if you subtract the very bottom tip of Nevada you eliminate the pestilent cancer that is Las Vegas ( sorry to any of my loyal minions there- it might be a great place to live compared to the US, but compared to the rest of the state it sucks ), which brings that way down. Besides, that is not even part of the Great Basin. Now, if we also shave off Carson and Reno which hug the Sierra Nevada mountains of the western edge of the Basin, you end up with only 3.7 people per square mile. That is far less than Montana at 6.5 people per square mile, or even Wyoming at 5.4. So, as you can see Nevada really is the best place to live outside of Alaska for low population density. On a really bad winter, about once every ten years ( although bound to increase as the weather gets more severe on both ends ) we see a minus twenty or thirty. In Alaska, outside a few coastal areas benefiting from the ocean currents, I’m sure that twenty below is a warm winter. Thanks, I’ll take Nevada.

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Besides low population density, a very important factor in the die-off as it determines how many people are shooting at you, taxes are reasonable in the state and the gun laws are nothing to worry about. Remember, we are talking about the new and improved Nevada where we gave Vegas back to Arizona and let California have Reno since it seems half the population in that city is from Oakland anyway. Rural Nevada, may the city pukes who vote piss off and die, you jackals. I know quite a few of you moral majority uptight religious dudes will condemn the states population to Hell since we gamble and fornicate with prostitutes, but before you get too uppity, ask your church about its history of murdered pregnant nuns, the Inquisition and the collusion with Nazi’s. Oh, not Catholic? Then how about religious persecution in the Colonies prior to the Revolution?

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Nevada, it sucks less.

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