(26 March 2013, 17:27)Nutmeg Wrote: ...A large city is like a jungle. It's complicated.
If you know how to read it, survival is possible.
Take "Londonstan".
It has many flavors and colors. It changes through the day, the night, the year. Mostly it is self policing too.
Cross into an area where you are not known to cause trouble and get carried home in plastic bags.
Cross any area where gangs are rife and you'll be spotted in an instant and challenged.
Bit different to a little village in Bumsfield or wherever....
flavors and colors... very romantic.
i live in the big city since i was 18yo. i also thought it is all about flavors and colors, just like the world in miniature.
but to just remind myself how ugly it could turn in a blink of an eye i try to imagine just one simple detail.
not the marauding gangs, not the possible infectious diseases, not even food shortages.
just a simple total blackout. just imagine: no lights, no tv, no cell phones, no internet, no home alarm systems, no cooking, no functioning refrigerators, no central heating, no running water, no WC !!!!
and who knows for how long?
even if you have fortified bunker with the loads of food stored, you can not live in your own filth for long, then you have to get out. and what is out there? the whole bunch of unpleasant things i've mentioned before power blackout.
so that is why years ago i've purchased old farm house with the 1,5ha of land some 100km from my big city
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