By the Sea?

[Highlander]

When we looked for our place we did want to be fairly close to the sea, but not on its shores, we chose a place about four miles in

For a prepper living directly on the shore restricts your movements,.. if after an event people do start to move upon you with ill intent, then you will find you have your back to the [sea] wall,...if your inland route is blocked by the bad guys, where do you go, you cant go seaward, unless you have a boat, a destination to go to and the skill to get there, and going up or down the coast is predictable.

These last few days have shown us that living on many of our coasts is not a happy place to be, storms have always made lives in coastal properties more dangerous that many of those inland,..... the wind will often effect the crops you grow, the salt spray will do them no good either, very often the soil is very shallow or too sandy,... coast lines can shift

I would always prefer to be inland a bit