The Slow Descent - When To Bug Out?

[cryingfreeman]

There's a terminology issue here. Bugging out should mean tactical retreating to (for example) a stocked retreat some distance from one's primary residence. Strategic relocation, on the other hand, relates to moving home so as to mitigate strategic threats. But no survivalist strategy should be wholly reliant on a last stand kind of approach where the expectation is that one's home / retreat will be assaulted by large numbers of looters / raiders / whatever. A fallback option - no matter where one is planning to ride out what's coming - is always desirable (if affordable).