If you were able to buy the perfect retreat/bug out location, where would it be and what would it be like? I've been thinking about this for a while. I am less than 2hours from Toronto and while I love my home I am also sensitive to the fact that it is in a small city and if ever something bad happens the "Toronto-Zombie-Hoardes will be here in no time.
So.....if you could buy the perfect place, affordable of course, I don't have a lot of money, what/where/why.
I've also thought of just going mobile but that wouldn't work because of the need for fuel.
I think that a retreat could double as a summer cottage too.
Here is a little place I just found on MLS.CA.
2.78 ares on a small lake.
Outdoor toilet, but septic system could be done easily and well could be dug.
2 bedrooms, but could be added on to.
DIRT CHEAP $49 900
The perfect retreat for my wife and I, and the one we are actively looking for at this very moment would be a cabin/cottage on a lake. It would be close enough to the shore so that we could pump water from the lake for our drinking water or it may already have a well. Hopefully it would be somewhat rural or remote but still be connected to the grid so that we have a bit of time to build up our off grid resources before cutting ties.
The needed land (3 to 5 acres or more depending on the price) would be for our garden and greenhouse and a few of the animals we intend to raise. Ideally the property would be backed or bordered by crown land so that hunting would help with our nutrition needs.
We have started looking here in BC and as we keep looking we will go as far east as northern Ontario.
We have lots of plans for the property but right now finding it is easier said than done.
Noli Illigitimi Carborundum
(Don’t let the bastards wear you down)
In a forty foot shipping container ,8 feet under ground .
moving water (not sure a good water source maybe food, and hydro electic), ponds for livestock, good land/soil, lots of space for animals, lots of wooded areas on the property, middle of no where with lots of preppers near by, local gov't that doesn't drop by unanounced to sell you dog tags when you are working night shifts (thursday morning grrrrr)
a good strong house, good basement, deep well, long lane way, off even a smaller highway,
save a few things on my list, this is what every place was like 150 years ago. . .
gee, country folk knew how to prep before it was needed!
adsum. . . aut viam inveniam aut faciam