You said it, Location, location, location! I moved to a very mild climate on the coast of Oregon, when SHTF I know I will not freeze, I have Fresh prevailing winds, saltwater fishing and fresh water rivers.
This issue is are we talking when the power goes out and meyhem is in the cities or are we talking just cutting costs and living the most cost effective manner possible?
I loved North of Homer Alaska in our families cabin , it was brutal !!!! Winters were simply the Pits. Day light was a big issue for the first few years.
If we are talking about cutting cost's milt climates and an extra jacket has worked fine for me. The land I have is 5 ac. I have a wooded area and a stream behind my house. I searched for this. I am totaly off of all city utilities. I have also planted Eastern Wild turkeys here and Quail.
Raised Gardens and green house. I am pretty self suffciant. Clams on the beach at low tide and ling cod in the low tide pools, lots of crab, salmon steelhead and trout in the rivers.
If you have the opportunity plan for it. You that live in Ice country you run out of wood you're on the menu for the Donner Party.
I also raise Chickens, most of their feed comes from pieces of logs and plywood I lat flat on the ground alternating between them. I raise them and they eat the hundereds of bugs and worms under them.
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