Respect for other members - specifically those in a suburban area

[Scythe13]

I love city life. Vibrant, fun, entertaining, exciting, and good gyms haha.

The crime and all that is around, but who cares? I hang out with mates from the gym, and we have a laugh together. We don't get mugged, or attacked by racist islamist extremists, or angry police, or anything like that. Put simply, a city is only as good as the people you hang out with in there, and the places you frequent.

For me, if we didn't have cats, I'd have pushed the wife more towards buying a city property. I LOVE city life. If stuff kicks off, then so be it. But if you want to go black ops and get illegal items, it's faster to get them in the cities. So, there's a plus side to the crime part.

As for cities being the biggest danger to a prepper (you're all going to hate this, but suck it up....pardon the pun) is that big gut! Yes, how boring is that, but bad quality of health and fitness is a killer, and it's dependent on what you put on your plate, not on where you live. You're more likely to get a heart disease or something health related, snuffing you at an early age, than you are being killed by a city gang.

As with everything, weigh up the costs, rewards, benefits, etc, then go from there.

For me, live it up in the city. Get an office job, work up the ladder, then use that money to buy a BOL with solar panels, water collection systems, a shooting range, a wooded area, crocodiles in a moat and all the rest. Better to do that than live in a dump in the country where you'll freeze in the first heavy snow fall. I don't know about you, but the idea of owning a nice place out in the stix with all the mod cons, appeals to me much more than living in a run down old farm house (although I know BP loves those kinds of properties, so as NR said Horses for Courses).

A city is HUGELY advantageous in regards to finances, which is a MAJOR factor in limiting the prepping ability.

Each and every to their own, but if you live in a city....I'm jealous!