why cities will become lawless shortly after major event

[Highlander]

As a Highlander, I can agree with all you say about the Highlands, the trouble with what you are saying is learning to survive,... and doing it quick enough that you dont starve while learning.

Anyone heading to the Highlands faces far more problems than you think, if we take the west coast, then you have a problem even getting here, especially if you are on foot,..then if you do get here what are you going to do.

Take a walk into the hills and think of yourself living and surviving there,... you see nothing, no animals, nothing to eat at all, in many places little but moorland and little shelter, unless you pick a really good spot, your seeds will not grow in the waterlogged ground, or they start to grow and then die due to the weather

The point I am making is that unless you know what you are doing, you are going to starve or die of hypothermia,..well before those seeds break the surface

... what Government services?...