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little personal depression, as my husband is a builder and work is very scarce. Beside being late on the bills, just surviving is becoming a struggle. So, we are becoming aware of the most important things: We already have a little solar power, (not on the grid), and generator broke (how we get our water from well).Our primitive rainwater collection (buckets lined up under the eaves for watering the garden) system is handy.That's also where friendly neighbors come into importance.Food stored up is coming in handy, and vegetables from the garden are absolutely comforting. And my chickens, despite hiding eggs occasionally are still beloved for that daily organic free range egg breakfast. I am being forced to learn how to repair things like generators. And now am thinking of other ways to make some money. (Ebay is really turning into a nightmare). I end up paying more for shipping than I get, if you count gas, and time away from the garden. Making friends with hunters, (or hunting oneself) definately paid off, as we have all that canned meat and jerky stored up. Of course it is a bit depressing having to eat all that stuff, before it may get worse. But at least we aren't starving yet.

Head for the hills - the new survivalists
by Mark Whittaker

So what do you do when you're pretty sure that the end of the world as we know it is coming soon, but your girlfriend doesn't believe you? Sure, she might nod her head when you confront her with some of the gloomier facts, but then she shrugs and goes back to her pursuit of modern pleasures. She doesn't like it when you talk about it to other people, either. No one likes being told their hopes and dreams are about to turn to dust.

This is the problem confronting Adelaide aircraft engineer Steve McReady. Sick of trying to warn people who won't listen, he is bugging out. He has sold four of his seven investment properties, and has a fifth on the market. He's putting his collection of 10 classic Triumphs and BMWs up for sale. The girlfriend begged him to keep the BM convertible, but there won't be much use for it in the world he sees coming.

He has bought a property in New Zealand - which he says fares well in climate-change models - and once he gets his affairs in order he'll move there to learn about growing vegies and raising chooks. He wants to build a big shed to stock with all the important things that will become difficult to obtain, such as fencing wire and Band-Aids. But he worries that he's left it too late, and that the world might start getting ugly before he can learn how to make cheese and grow potatoes.

He would have been talking marriage with his girlfriend now if it weren't for all this. "She's a really nice person, great morals, but the lifestyle she aspires to is what most modern women want," McReady explains the first time we talk on the phone. "We're still going out and doing things together. We have talked about this issue but we really haven't resolved it. I'm relying on time. Maybe $2-a-litre petrol by Christmas or if the United States invades Iran ... Perhaps if she saw that what I'm talking about was true, she might change her attitude. But currently I can't see it happening."

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Can't I just have myself cryogenically frozen and wake up in 20 years? It works in the movies...

any tips on basic survival. I haven't even done camping before but I have a feeling we better learn. Peace.

my biggest question would be one of mobility.

imagine living 30 miles away from a city 1 million strong.

all hell is breaking loose, you have martial law in the city and curfews.

fuel is hard to come by.

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massive fuel stores?

horses?

bicycles?

It would nice to see an active survivalist thread on here, since most of us believe the economy will collapse soon.

But I guess that would cut into our time arguing over creationism versus evolution, the existence of God--and why his name should be taken off our money, and other 'vital issues of the day'.

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