Calling fellow city dwellers

[Ghost]

To dwell or not to dwell? That is the question!

I have spent my entire life living in cities, some large, some small. And I can honestly say that I love 'em!
I am under no illusion that to survive in one post SHTF will be tough, Fuck, it'll be damn near impossible!

But some of us will survive. Not only will we survive we will prosper, and we will do this because we are perfectly adapted to our environment. The city runs through my veins and I have spent a long time learning all I can about it. I know where there is still access to fresh water. I know where there are roadside fruit trees and bushes that carry edible berries. I know where wild herbs grow on wasteland and along railway embankment. I know of a thousand allotments that have fruit and veg, and though these plots may become abandoned or looted they will survive, nature is hard to completely obliterate and some seeds may survive. We also have many many garden centres and even supermarkets that sell seeds, some of these seeds will be overlooked in the dark of a powerless city.

The common view of the country dweller is that the city is a Cyclopean slab of concrete where nothing can grow that hasn't been poisoned by pollution! This is a flawed observation .

There will be gangs roaming the streets and it is likely that to survive the city dweller will have to be a member of one of these gangs. The thing to remember here is that it's all about survival! Nothing else matters.
There will not be golden hordes heading out into the countryside but a lot of scared people will abandon the city, history has proven this time and time again. And these people will die or be killed trying to take what they need, they will take the Necropolis out into the villages and hamlets of this fine Island.

We take a lot of slack for wanting to stay where we are, but maybe ,just maybe we know something you country mice don't?

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I understand the constant debate about disease and the dead, but pockets of survivors will prevail and deal with dead and dying in the right way, thus preventing the cess pit of filth and decay from overwhelming them!