GUEST ARTICLE
As loyal, but lazy, minion of our Grate Lord Bison, a.k.a. Jim, I have heeded his call
and decided to write a guest article for him. Actually for you; well, at least one of
you. I would send Him $50 again, but I am flat broke at this time, but I got the
ball-and-chain pulling in the dough. I am in rather unique circumstances, part of which
is being outside of the USSA.
Jim has been cajoling you for years on end to buy grains, junk land, old wog killers, and
other useful kit. He has been advocating leaving the suburbs of the east and the left
coast for the Nevadan desert, in part because you are less likely to be eaten there, and
also in part because there are fewer @ssholes there too.
Inspired by His (Jim's) wisdom, I have decided to move to a land that has few people, but
lots of trees and snow. For me the desert is too much like the moon.
You are now in the USSA or similar lousy location. You have become aware of the
apocalypse late, and have few survival skills. There are many Assmericans around you.
People you know you can't rely on, people that get on your nerves. Friends who are
strictly fair-weather and family who consider you to be the black sheep. And every day
you wish you were some place else. Among the Assmericans one of their favorite sayings
is "Assmerica, love it or leave it." I say "Love it, or not, leave it if
you can."
If you have a few thousand bucks to your name you can do it. The place to go is the
friendliest nation on the planet, Vanuatu.
Like anywhere on this planet, you have the good and the bad and the stuff that can be
good or bad. Vanuatu is warm and easy place to live. Since the local people are so
friendly, it ought not to be too hard to make some friends who'll be willing to teach you
how to survive there; which plants you can eat, where to find drinking water, etc. They
don't need much technology or modern materials to live, so if world trade stops, they are
likely to survive a lot longer than most Americans and Europeans in such a situation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7427768.stm
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24392
The first thing to do is get there. You can go to Vanuatu from North America via East
Asia or Australia. Most likely you can get a one month visa on arrival. That visa may
be renewed a few times. After that you're legally required to leave, unless you figure
out a way around that. One likely way around that is to get married to a Ni-Vanuatu.
Another way is to become good friends with the right people. Another is getting a legal
job that a local can't do. I guess becoming a missionary is also another. http://wikitravel.org/en/Vanuatu#Get_in
Bring plenty of bug repellant, a few good mosquito nets or jungle hammocks, and water
purification kits. There is malaria in the country, which is one of the stuff that is
good and bad; good in that it keeps more people from wanting to live there, bad in that
it can easily shorten your life. You'll need anti-malarial pills. Doxycycline is good,
but you have to take it every day and it is not recommended to be taken for more than 6
months straight. Mefloquine has to be taken once a week, but it often causes severe
mental illness that is worse than malaria. There are other anti-malarial profilatic
drugs, too. Anti-malarial profilatic drugs only suppress any malaria parasites you get.
To kill off the parasites, you'll need a different drug. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimalarial_drug
Every year in the USSA there are thousands of cases of malaria. Most of the vicitms got
it from foreign travel, but a few get it from mosquito bites in the USSA. When the
government stops spraying to kill mosquitos, you can expect malaria to return. How bad
could it get? New England used to have malaria, so it could eventually return to there,
as well as the other Yankee states and the Midwest and the South. http://www.nmca.org/Nmca93-4.htm
Unlike most of the USSA, cinchona likely can grow in Vanuatu. So bring many of its seeds
with you so you can plant it in several locations. Also try to grow sweet wormwood.
Sweet wormwood and cinchona can be used to treat malaria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinchona
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_annua
Vanuatu has a fast growing population, which means a lot of the population is young. So
you'll have plenty of competition in the future. You had best position yourself on an
island that is suitably isolated and with a rather low population density. You'll have
dozens to choose from. If you are smart and persuasive, you could create a group of body
guards for yourself. If you live there as a missionary you can convince them of the
righteousness of protecting you. And if anything goes wrong, blame the enemy or some of
them for not having enough faith.
English is one of the official languages. The vocabulary of the pidgin language most
Ni-Vanuatu speak is English. Learning to communicate with the locals will be easier than
learning a truely foreign language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bislama
There is a lot of seismic activity in Vanuatu. If you are living in a grass hut, you are
unlikely to be crushed to death. A bigger danger would be if you had a fire going inside
while an earthquake occurs. So take care about that.
All in all, you could do a lot worse than living in Vanuatu.
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Youre right.
There are a few @ssholes here in nevada.
One of those few is a transplant from c@li forni@. riding a bike and working in a kitchen, giving economical advise, telling people how to live their lives.
He is consider one of the big ones in here. really big A H.
Maybe his Ex was right.
OH, and don't forget to boil the water, not eat the fruit or veggies because of parasites, or the fish because of mercury poisoning, also make sure you are absolutely 100% healthy because their health care is resereved for the natives and rich tourists. Oh, and don't forget that when your money dries up after the end you can always sell your honky ass to make local currency. And if you go make sure that is where you want to stay because it will cost your weight in gold to get home. Also make sure you like living in 3rd world conditions (with a pleasant climate) from the get go. Other then this it sounds like a lovely place and I think it would be wonderful for you, and you should take as many of your friends and family with you as can be persuaded to go. What a marevlous post. Everyone but me should go!!
Re: Guest article #2
Vanuatu sounds like a bad place to locate, IMO: (from Wikipedia)
"Vanuatu’s growing population (estimated in 2008 at 2.4 percent annually)[30] is placing increased pressure on local resources for agriculture, grazing, hunting, and fishing.[25] Some 90 percent of Ni-Vanuatu households fish and consume fish, which has caused intense fishing pressure near villages and the depletion of near-shore fish species.[25] While well vegetated, most islands also show signs of deforestation.[25] They have been logged (particularly of higher-value timber), subjected to wide-scale slash-and-burn agriculture, converted to coconut plantations and cattle ranches, and show evidence of increased soil erosion and landslides.[25]
Freshwater is becoming increasingly scarce and many upland watersheds are being deforested and degraded.[25] Proper waste disposal and water and air pollution are also increasingly troublesome issues around urban areas and large villages.[25] Additionally, the lack of employment opportunities in industry and urban areas and inaccessibility to markets have combined to lock rural families into a subsistence or self-reliance mode, putting tremendous pressure on local ecosystems.[25]"
Jim, pass on thanks to the author and see if you can get more out of him as I think the simple lifestyle appeals to a lot of your readers. Survival writer Ragnar Benson calls them the been there done that crowd and seeing things that way is better than say a Wiki article or whatever.
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