Colony

[The Local Ned]

Do we consider this thread closed then ?

I think that although we have shown that the knowledge and potential to create a working model of a breakaway community , or a safe haven as it were , is in place - logistically for many of this group - it is a non-starter.

Smaller 'communities' of scattered farms/buildings in nearby areas is perhaps a compromise , not perfect but workable , to this question.

What is also very prominent is peoples varying attitudes towards 'others' , 'refugees' , 'outsiders'.
We won't be building a 'red cross refugee camp' but unless we vet people for usable skills and turn away the unskilled we will run into problems.
Food and supplies will be very limited and strictly rationed , which makes helping others less fortunate than ourselves - very dangerous to our own survival as a group.
I think that we have to be mentally robust here and not succumb to unhelpful emotions from the bleeding hearts.

What I will take onboard from this thread is that most of us as preppers are open to the idea of re-building a society......but are sceptical of doing it.