I'm not talking about rolling in and taking over someones home. I'm talking about pooling with the local holdouts in a small, rural area and combining talents to make a going community.
I live in a fairly small town and work in an even smaller one. Right up the road is another small town. I live on a lake with hydro-electric and at least 3 small water plants. It seems like it would make more sense building a community in a small town setting than out in the woods, running bucket water-filters and cooking solely on wood fires. The reason I started this is to find out if I'm wrong and maybe it WOULD make more sense to stake out a spit of land well off the beaten trail on a finger of the lake and set up tent city till more permanent shelter could be made. I can envision using a small peninsula of the lake for base with boats to evac and stashed vehicles across the lake to complete the bugout if need be. Conversely, if aggressed by water, the landward side would also include evac supplies/vehicles. I guess a town, even a fairly secluded one would be on maps but would that outweigh the advantages of a pre-existing infrastructure?
I'm looking to garner ideas and maybe have a sit down with a group to discuss the options. I think it would be great if those of us here could look at the possibilities. I know, personally, I would rather think of this group as the nucleus of a community than blind meets with whoever strolls down the lane.
I live in a fairly small town and work in an even smaller one. Right up the road is another small town. I live on a lake with hydro-electric and at least 3 small water plants. It seems like it would make more sense building a community in a small town setting than out in the woods, running bucket water-filters and cooking solely on wood fires. The reason I started this is to find out if I'm wrong and maybe it WOULD make more sense to stake out a spit of land well off the beaten trail on a finger of the lake and set up tent city till more permanent shelter could be made. I can envision using a small peninsula of the lake for base with boats to evac and stashed vehicles across the lake to complete the bugout if need be. Conversely, if aggressed by water, the landward side would also include evac supplies/vehicles. I guess a town, even a fairly secluded one would be on maps but would that outweigh the advantages of a pre-existing infrastructure?
I'm looking to garner ideas and maybe have a sit down with a group to discuss the options. I think it would be great if those of us here could look at the possibilities. I know, personally, I would rather think of this group as the nucleus of a community than blind meets with whoever strolls down the lane.
