Where to go.

[Morgan]

We were discussing last night (as well as starting to draw up lists of what we need) as to where the best place for us to go would be if we could afford to move.

We have a couple of options, my future mother in law lives on the Outer Hebrides, right next to a sea loch and with a fresh water loch full of wild brown trout thirty seconds from her back door. To all intents and purposes, it's ideal. There is enough land to turn over to cultivate and there is plenty of food available off the land. It's heaving with deer up there and fish and birds. Plus, given it's geographical location, it's not easy for the masses off the main land to get to. Most people up there live off the land to some degree, either through fishing or crofting and the community is very close knit and pretty strong.

There are some down sides though. There are hardly any trees up there so wood is in short supply, and any raw materials you may need are expensive and have to be shipped in. And the main down side is that because it is such a close knit community, nothing is secret up there. I don't doubt there are some preppers on the island, but they would have to be very canny to keep their activities to themselves as everyone knows what everyone else is doing.

I would still prefer to go there and I think my partner would too, but she did say there are plenty of wild places in Scotland that would match the resources, and trump them with regard to wood and other raw materials, but they would not have the "prying eyes" of the local community there.

To me, the community is one of the best things about the Hebs, they look after each other.

I would be interested to hear your thoughts on this.

Basically, as long as we could get out there, we have a nice bolt hole on a very remote part of the world. Suits me.