I think it depends upon your income level and state of mind. In 1980 when unemployment was around 10% I had a choice of moving back to the SF Bay area and getting work there or staying in the Mt. Shasta area and buying land with money we had saved and building an A-Frame. A friend of mine said to me:"Don't move away for work because there are several men here in Mt.Shasta that will go after your wife because they like her. So, if you want to keep her you need to stay here in the Mt. Shasta area."
So, I decided rather than to move away for work that I would invest in land and build a house and save money that way.
What I'm saying here is finding a way to be practical no matter what that is during these times might be important.
I found that all my building skills that I learned from my father since I was a child were very very important during these times. I had built my father's desert house with him on weekends since 1968 when I was 20. So, besides learning the electrical Trade I had also by being around my father learned Carpentry and masonry (even though we had a friend who was a mason build our white Dolomite Fireplace which had gold veins running through it. So, the fireplace was a very beautiful thing and likely still exists in the home we built in Yucca Valley even today. I would have kept that house when my father passed away but the bank they had borrowed money from to add a room addition and buy a 35 foot Winnebago Motor home the bank loan salesman had over valued their house in this loan deal which meant that after my father passed away my mother couldn't pay off the loan there and my wife and kids didn't want to live there to make the payments so we all wound up letting that house go after my father and I built it because it just wasn't practical to keep it. Also, my father had died there and I knew my mother couldn't stay there all alone with (the ghost of my father and her memories with him still there). So, she moved to Palm Springs where she was more happy than staying in Yucca Valley at least at this point.
Why am I sharing all this?
Because being practical regarding your real skills and what is going to make you happy enough to stay alive in your life should actually be the governing principle in awful times like we are facing worldwide right now.
So, is it going to work for you to become a prepper and moving to the woods or desert somewhere? Or is it just going to drive you into a more unsane place than your present life?
These kinds of questions are important to realistically ask yourself to keep yourself alive and happy enough to actually want to stay alive through everything in your life.
For me, Mt. Shasta was a place that my parents had introduced me too through their religion and so it was a spiritual place for me always where I could be with God through Mt. Shasta.
Also, it's a UFO place where almost everyone there has had UFO experiences including myself. Part of the reason for this is it is a Volcano and also on a ley line intersection which makes the place very powerful and likely a good place to travel through both time and space for different technologies including UFOs. So, for me, I had a place I loved since I was a child and friends living there one of whom I had helped build his house starting in 1976. So, when I bought land in 1980 I had many friends there and I had just remarried and had been a single father for about 3 years before this. So, when I married again my son was about 5 years old at that point in 1980. So, he turned 6 years old in Spring of 1980.
The point is: "You don't want to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire."
This is the main point I want to make for you regarding being a prepper (or a survivalist) (same thing?)
What is going to work for you in your life?
Is your family on board with all of this (your wife and children and possibly grandchildren?)
Finding a way forward at every stage in life is important.
Being a survivor is all well and good but is your survival something you actually want to happen where you are choosing presently to live?
So, in the end are you happy enough doing whatever you are doing to continue to do it?
This should be a consideration no matter what you are presently doing in your life.
IF you are not concerned about your own happiness then you might not be around here on earth very long either.
By God's Grace
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