I don't know that remoteness matters much anymore with satellite imagery and pending domestic drone use.
Remoteness is important if the goal is to be under the radar when civil unrest hits. As I mentioned in the OP, the gov'ts are going to be busy dealing with frantic people in densely populated areas first. If we're off the beaten path, pretty self-sustaining, and not looking for a fight, I don't think we'll need to worry much about being droned.
The federal gov't, at the behest of the money power, is in full swing to collapse us into a new system. Anyone with half a brain knows that we'll never get out from under a 90 trillion dollar debt (when you include unfunded liabilities), some form of collapse is inevitable. HOW they intend to do it and when, are the only questions. An educated guess is that they'll dump the federal reserve note and replace it with a new currency. But before that happens, there will be lots of Detroits, and as entitlement taxes start to strangle out the wage earners, the friction will be felt in the streets. They're gearing up for it, which is why the police are now militarized.
The land I linked to is intriguing because of the way it is situated.
This kind of situation invites multiple buyers, if possible, but even if not, even if it's only one buyer, if the land can be further broken up into smaller parcels, then those who are joining that can't purchase right away, will have a chance to do so later. So, for example, if we bought 75 acres (in this case), people could move onto the land first, and buy it later, if they wanted to. I realize there are legal ramifications, and potential liabilities, but putting that aside for now, since I think it's mostly workable detail, I really think this is the sort of thing we're looking for, something fairly remote, but near some small towns, good hunting, probably good farming, water, roads, and not close enough to worry too much about people, who leave the big cities, finding us.
This is an example of something that might be doable. Are there drawbacks? Yessss.......finding work in that area could be a problem, but maybe not. I'm told job opportunities are very good in OK., and when I did a search for a nearby town on indeed.com, I found a slew of jobs, one that would even suit my husband. I'm also told that this area is not necessarily out of the way of tornados, but I guess no part of OK really is. So doing a history for that area it looks like the last devastating tornado took place in 1945. If you consider their laws on guns, taxes, zoning, permits, etc. they're pretty good. And I really dig the fact that they refused Obamacare and are fighting in the courts to reserve their Constitutional right to do so. The other thing is, it's not as brutally cold there as it is in some of the other locations.
There's still research that needs to be done in that area, of course. And, we can do some purchasing, but can't build until we sell our house, but I just wanted to share this, and see what others thought, or if anyone has come up with something similar.
