I'd like to share some things that I invite you to think about in terms of where to move I've been sitting on this for quite some time but I think now is the time to share this it's not like anything in this is a big secret well maybe maybe one thing but I'm not going to talk much about that um it's it's just that I'm not sure that that anyone sort of laid this out so I'm going to
give it a shot and then you'll have the information and on that note we'll start from the bottom up on this slide I'm not advising anybody to do anything crazy here I think that you should always have reasons for what you do and in this case some of those reasons will pertain to the timing and what sorts of the intensity of the measures that you'll take to get to
wherever it is that you want to go the point of all of this in my opinion is that it's part of how we seek the Lord he expects us to live up to the information that we have too often we morph this into some sort of a uh a caricature of what happened in times like uh like Noah's
day when we oversimplify the idea of what a prophet is and reduce the portion of what of of Reason in what they say Noah is not the easiest example to use for that as far as the scriptures go because we have so little about the events of his time and the reasons people had to see him for who he was and
they did have abundant reasons I don't want to get too much into that but that's has to do with um the curse that was on the land and how he helped to bring about alleviation from those conditions he's he was well known to the world back then and for the value that he had in relation to all that but if we want to stick to what's in the scriptures we do have information
on Moses and Moses had a lot of reasons or rather the people had a lot of reasons to believe Moses even the first time he tried to free them free them resulting in him having to flee from Egypt he was well known by the entire nation as a very high ranking member of Pharaoh's family having won many
military victories and so on they had every reason to believe that he knew what he was talking about and he was capable of doing what what he intended to do anyway so so in this presentation I'm just going to share some reasons instead of just sharing with you my conclusions about where I think are good places I'm going to tou tell you why I think that in terms that you can understand and
then you can take that information to make your own decisions but at that point it doesn't really matter who you heard it from in all of this I hope that your motive as mine is is not so much to reduce your own suffering but rather to maximize your service to the Lord and that should be our focus with
everything okay so there's your Preamble your disclaimer let's start with what I call General properties the most important thing that you can look for in where to live in my opinion is a low population density and each of these factors you get to weigh how important they are to you you get to think about we're going to going to talk about some potential
events that would cause you to want to live in a different place when they happen of course it'll be too late to do much about it at that point but to help fill out this picture we need to think about different properties population density serves as a filter just just like the other properties that we'll look at because so many
things could happen that would cause you to wish you lived in a place with fewer people what could these be one thing I don't talk about in this presentation is is a famine or a an epidemic a real dangerous disease well whatever the the the trigger might be the
Catalyst there are many things that will cause you to want to live in a low population area and when you apply that filter you'll see on this graph for instance you kind of just want to live in the places with white squares maybe with the where where it starts turning yellow but definitely not in any areas that are blue and so this if you overlay this
um or rather if if you thought about this and well I'm saying this in a way that's more complicated than it needs to be this is a population density graph therefore the places where most people live are the places where most people live and so probabilistic this filter is great because no matter
where you live the odds are high it's a place where you shouldn't so you want to get to a place where very few people live and if that's all you do then you're head of the game because that is an optimal move for a wide variety of potential situations that's one way to make a good choice is that you don't
hyper focus on the need to be right about exactly what you think is going to happen or when but you can put them in a basket you you put a you put the events in a basket and the timelines in a wide range you say well I'm not exactly sure what's going to happen I'm not exactly sure when it's going to happen but looking if I can extract similar properties out of a cluster of potential
outcomes then if I take a choice that would be a pretty good choice given a whole range of potential outcomes then that's much more likely to benefit you than one that say would only be optimal if a very specific thing happened at a very specific time it's really hard to correctly predict specific events and
times but if you have a range of times and a range of events it becomes easier and if those events point in the same direction your confidence can go up that you're making a good decision another thing to think about in general is elevation temperature and rainfall can also be important but I've left those out because those are more specific to uh growing food and that has a place
in this presentation but it's not until at the very end when we talk about survivability in inverse terms which will be interesting hopefully that'll bait you to stay until the end but elevation can be a useful thing to have we're going to look at some specific events but what you'll see is that things like nuclear fallout they
are less likely to affect you when you're at high elevation floods things like that and so it turns out that that this is just one of many factors where their differences depending on where you are in the country and they can be enormous differences sometimes they're localized we're going to talk just a little bit about Maine and Maine actually has some mountainous territory in the north
center of the state but the the Northwestern half we'll say is also more elevated than towards the coast so something like a tidal wave occurred your situation would be very different if you were on the coast versus more towards the interior so okay so with that let's talk about threats so if I had to arrange these by likelihood I think the the top
of my list would be a grid down scenario and this just reinforces what I told you about population density because that is the number one thing to think about when you would want to um mitigate the risk in a grid down event so when I say grid down that could come from any number of sources
so if if a military adversary or a terrorist group set off an EMP that could cause a grid down scenario but a solar storm could as well in fact there are several different sources that might cause this but what what I'm describing is an event where the grid goes down for a sustained
amount of time and it doesn't come back and so for ex if you want to to read more about this you can read a book by Ted Coppel called lights out very few people have read that it's unfortunate the information in it's great it's it's non-fiction and uh he uses his access to used his access to high-ranking individuals in the government in and in Industry to collate
some well some Grim information about the likelihood of this happening and the lack of preparation and and not just lack of preparation but the fact that there is honestly very little that can be done to stop this or to bring electricity back once it's gone and you could read more about that there for the sake of brevity in this video I won't go into it more so if the grid went
down you would absolutely positively want to be in a low population density area why because people will stream out of the Cities looking for food and water and it won't take that long and they will not be happy campers what we've seen in well what we've seen in an unbroken
chain of historic examples is in modern times is that when the basic functions available to all in society break down so does what we falsely believe to be human decency humans are not decent not naturally and when you take away all of the abundance that gets them to play nice with others Anarchy ensues and it
can take as few as 3 days and so you don't want to be anywhere near a city or suburbs if this happens it's shocking how many people think that the the person they think is their nice neighbor will continue to be nice when there's no food
so this is is the most actionable piece of advice get to a place with a low population density again that filters out almost all the United States what's the next filter I would apply the next one would be risk from a nuclear attack um actually I'm going to do a a game
time shift here let's make the next one nuclear plant fall out why would I rank that higher than nuclear warfare because if the grid goes down the nuke plants will too and that's kind of a funny thing people don't realize this because a nuclear power plant produces electricity but there are
processes with that that actually require external electricity so if the grid goes down so does the plant and if that happens the fuel rods can't be cooled and a meltdown will occur and so if there were a nuclear meltdown these Rings indicate the areas that that might be polluted due to that now the downside of this graph is that
it doesn't incorporate wind patterns uh the wind blows basically East and we'll see that in the chart I'm going to show you denoting the risk of of nuclear war but one interesting thing about this is that there are places in the United States that might not be approximate to an a functioning or an active nuclear power plant but
commission plants are also dangerous because the spent fuel rods are still there and they have to actively cool them and if they don't they'll melt down so those are still a radiation risk and as you see this is a powerful filter because basically the entire East Coast is out there are some exceptions you'll see West Virginia I use my mouse here
this part of West Virginia isn't in any circles nor is oh boy I'm going to embarrass myself here I think that's Kentucky um I think it's Tennessee below there so we we'll say that's Kentucky so that that one's free and clear and that's a nice mountainous Woody area Kentucky some nice Backwoods places there so as an example you could overlay that with a population density map and
you can see that that regionally speak speaking there are plenty of places in the southern half of Kentucky and certainly in West Virginia okay now you'd say well if we fast forward you're going to find out I don't recommend living there even though I did make a video I'm not sure when it will publish about the possibility of living in West Virginia and some of the things you might not know about in that region but
why don't I recommend it well because of the next thing which is the risk of nuclear attack so there are all sorts of scenarios mapped out of potential you can apply all sorts of filters and variables for potential attack sites you could do population centers you could do military tactical
tactical targets whatever and this is actually a newer chart it's from 2015 the ones before this were from back in the Cold War era but basically what you'll see here is that any population Center is a potential and likely Target and then on top of that their military bases and all of those would be targeted especially the places that have
silos for nuclear warheads or um house the the Airmen those are Air Force um units the Airmen that that that uh staff the those silos and so the cluster of those are right here right here and right here so that's North Dakota Central Montana and
Southeast Wyoming now what's interesting about this is that where where is the the nuclear power facilities there are some gaps here on on the eastern half in the eastern half the of the United States between the targets and the wind the entire Eastern United States
almost entire Eastern United States is blanketed in radiation and that's either from the bombs directly which are going to wipe out the cities I should say would which would wipe out the cities but also the Fallout that will rain down and blow on the wind for weeks after the fact so there are some Pockets here in Pennsylvania fewer in New York but again
you see that Maine is wide open okay so if you overlay that with the power plants you see that Northern the northern half of Maine is free and clear and so Maine is the exception in the advice that I'm going to give being the only place east of the Mississippi that I would consider a viable
place now with all of these potential events if you don't think that we're ever going to get nuked well you just subtract that filter and if there's something else that you can think of like I don't know if you expect Lyme disease to mutate into something even worse than what it is you could get a map of Lyme disease and say well I don't want to live in any of these places
right but the the the approach is what I'm sharing with you here as as well as the leg work I've already done so you take that wherever you'd like no pun intended okay the next thing we're going to look at is earthquake risk now this is interesting because survivability is very different earthquakes versus nuclear
radiation uh there's not too much you can do to hide from nuclear radiation although you could have a bomb shelter that's secret that no one knows about and your backyard and uh you could live in a in a relatively densely populated area and just wait it out for a month and a half and then come out and and go wherever but as far as earthquakes go now we get
into something that is going to have a lot of variability even locally in terms of how much of a a problem it becomes but then you get into the longer term effects if you survive that uninjured somehow because of population density right because if you have a whole bunch of people and if you're in a city even if there's a big
old earthquake there will be a lot of survivors but now they're hungry and so what do you do and there's no clean water so these are places where you might want to worry about that and you could overlay this filter onto the others and the New Madrid seismic Zone is really something that you should know
about if you don't you can research that that's going to be a big deal when it happens and that one is a wind just like the West Coast earthquakes like the Cascadia abduction Zone that'll create enormous tsunamis and then you've got um the San Andreas area of course Alaska is an interesting one you'd think that that might be a a good place to set up set yourself up but the
cities tend to be right where the earthquake zones are and on the coast which is a tsunami risk anyway don't go into tsunamis uh specifically in a graph here because obviously if you're by a coast e even quite far inland from a coast because the elevation map is what you need to look at we started there you can see that a high enough tsunami would really
wreck much of the populated areas along the coast I don't obviously all of the populated areas on the coast but what I'm saying is if you actually look at simulations with different wave heights you might be amazed at how far inland that water could go so don't think that just because you can't see the beach that's not something you need to worry about okay then we've got
hurricanes so we've seen in Florida this year for example that this isn't something you should ignore in fact I made a whole video about why I wouldn't live in Florida and this is the primary reason is the hurricane risk there're also tornadoes a lot of the lower cost of living areas in the center of the United States are in tornado zones and again similar to some of these other
risks there are things you can specifically do with your house to minimize this I mean if you want to make a big old concrete Dome house that's a lot stronger uh in terms of of resisting winds from tornadoes so these are things that might be locally mitigated but the question is what about the aftermath and another reason that I put grid down so high on the list is that it is a
terminal event if something like that happened that is the end of the world as we know it it's it's not you're not going to come back from that it's uh it'd be what what Jared eastley has called madmax on steroids and I agree with that assessment it just it just would never go back until uh and unless an awful lot of
people died and that yeah it it would not be so but but something like a tornado obviously that's going to be much more localized even an earthquake and we're not talking about the end of of the world as we know it that's just a really unfortunate thing where you you and many other people might die or get injured and or your
house might get destroyed and or all the houses around you but you know it's just something to think about when you're talking about where to live okay Wildfire risk it's it's another thing where it's regional but also localized you can set up your own property to be pretty much immune from Wildfire risk
even if you're living around a whole bunch of trees that could burn up things like getting a metal roof making sure there are no trees within 200t of your house things like that so unfortunately Wildfire risk is is all over the place and it is lower on the list because there are things you can do to mitigate it that are way less expensive than trying to protect your house from tornadoes or hurricanes but uh it is
something to think about the last thing that I'm going to talk about is the risk of the Yellowstone volcano erupting it's worth talking about now this is an interesting one this this graph I I have here I don't actually like it very much because it has very little it's um it's not integrated very well with prevailing
winds so once you input the prevailing winds you actually see this Cloud shift a lot more East in terms of the western bounds of the eruption and essentially a great deal of the Inter Mountain West and Great Plains become a volcanic Wasteland that that where there are feet of Ash on the
ground and so you can't do much with that for years to come and then it becomes really great soil but until then there's not much you can do and of course you don't want to be anywhere near that if that were to happen so again I'm not saying any of these things will happen I mean you could express high confidence that where's our earthquake that eventually there will be an earthquake that's really big in the Cascadia
abduction Zone eventually there will be an earthquake that's really big in the San Andreas same thing with the New Madrid but when is this going to happen who knows right these other things could happen or maybe they won't or maybe they won't happen for a really long time long after your dead the point is if we expect those things to happen so Seattle is a great
example of this principle when the city of Seattle was built no one knew that there were 7.0 plus earthquakes there on a regular basis geologically speaking but now there's an enormous City there and everyone knows that this is going to happen again and yet they just live under the assumption it's not going to happen in their lifetimes there's really no reason to believe
that and so that's a little crazy we could say the same thing about the I-15 Corridor in Utah look at the red there okay so there's tons of people there and they've never experienced in living history we haven't experienced a massive earthquake in these places but we know it's going to happen but people live their lives pretending it won't it's quite
silly so my recommendation is that the best place to live generally speaking would be somewhere within the Missouri River Basin now I'm going to zoom into that quite a bit so here's the Missouri River basin and you can see it spans a bunch of very
large states but you already know from those maps that we've looked at there's an awful lot to filter out here between nuclear risk earthquake risk down in Missouri from the New Madrid Yellowstone risk if you add all these things up
there's really not much left so this is hilarious but uh here you have it now this this area here there's two areas there are two areas mentioned here that are outside of this Basin one is this Northeastern tip of Minnesota which is really interesting that that has just sort of stuck out through this research but it's got a low population density it's not within a
Fallout Cloud as far as I understand there doesn't seem to be much of a reason not to live there other than the politics of the state and and basically the same thing goes with with Maine now I will say I haven't looked into Northeastern Minnesota but I will say as far as Maine goes there is quite a bit of property there that is low cost you can get yourself a a little
Homestead that already has a house on it maybe it's older little old farmhouse but um the prices are really low and and that was kind of surprising to me maybe that'll change in the near future but for now it seems to be kind of one of the last places that you can get a really nice place to live at a really low cost West Virginia is another one now that does not solve the problem of where to work there are
layers of all of this but just for the the sake of mentioning it I'll mention it and other than that it's kind of basically the northern tip of Idaho and west of this mountain chain in Western Montana and that's kind of it so that's not very encouraging is
it and I think that uh the reality of this is something that's going to Dawn on people over time and as more and more things happen to increase the reality of the risk people will be W willing to pay a higher and higher price to get to these places now again if you go back over the
filters and you say well I don't really think this or that is going to happen then it it it does dramatically expand the square miles of places that you could go that look favorable in case you're wondering um the reason why this green box on Idaho isn't doesn't go further south is because the that area is downwind of
Spokan and Spokane's in Target it's just because of the population Center there might be some strategic element of that as well it's it's it's basically the only city anywhere close to that area and so it's kind of a hub if you took that out you'd ruin a lot of people's days so the interesting thing about the Missouri River
Basin excuse me is that the Missouri River has an awful lot of tributaries and they all flow here to Independence Missouri isn't that interesting that's the way the river flows all the way down so hypothetically if people survived the collapse of society as we
know it and they were just sort of scattered through here all they'd have to do is follow the water whether in a boat or on foot and that's where they could go is Independence so I find that to be very interesting and for whatever it's worth if you're in this tip of Minnesota you could just hop onto the Mississippi and
ride that down as well and then backtrack once you got to St Louis hypothetically so there are also some really interesting elements about this region in terms of the density of Native Americans there are an awful lot of Indian reservations in this area which
is also very interesting so here's some things to think about in terms of your specific property do you have a well what is the electric cost currently and what will it be in the future this is something I've seen on the East Coast the utility rates
are going through the roof I made some mention of this in the video I made about not living in Maryland uh there there are many places where this will be the case that the electric costs just keep going up what about property tax this is a huge thing that I don't think enough people are concerned about there's there is absolutely nothing stopping your county from
continuously jacking up your property tax as as long as there are people willing to move in and buy houses in your area and these two things electric cost and property tax are certainly a problem in Western Montana so there there isn't a place that's free from problems the question is which problems do you choose then there's a question of what
kind of people are around you and hopefully that helps make one of the things we're going to talk about less offensive you also want to worry about your ability to feed humans and animals on what you produce on your property that's something that would be worth thinking about and that's that's something that makes areas like Western Montana very
unattractive because it is extremely difficult to grow food here uh a place like Maine is a lot better now Maine is not good farmland for anyone that lives on good Farmland because the the climate is not ideal for that it's too cold however compared to Montana it's basically the Garden of Eden because it actually rains there and it's excruciatingly difficult to raise
crops here not just because of the cold and the short Seasons but primarily because of lack of water so these are some things to think about when you're looking at the question of where to live and here's the super duper offensive thing really what you're looking at when you're trying to figure this out is and
this is an offshoot of the property uh excuse me the population density question what aspects about where you live will kill the greatest number of people in the shortest time that's a pretty brutal question isn't it the number one predictor of survivability is going to be how hard it is for everyone else to survive this goes back to human nature if there are people around you the most likely
thing is that they're going to try to kill you and so and that's obviously in the event of of these potential emergencies and so something that you might think would be a good thing like the the abundance of forageable food so basically anywhere of the Mississippi
you can just walk into the woods and if you know what you're doing there's plenty of food to eat but that's not true in the Rocky Mountains I have um several books on edible plants for example and I was quite frustrated in getting these because I'd look through them and you know out of 200 species or something maybe one of them grows in the Rocky
Mountains and then I found a book that specifically it was specifically about Edibles of the Rocky Mountains I think that's even what it's called and I was excited because it was a f length book I said wow well here are all the secrets come to find out they added an awful lot to that book it should be about five pages long everything else is just well this isn't really edible but you could make a tea
out of it kind of a kind of a thing or this is probably poisonous and we don't recommend you eat it but it might be at anyway so these are inverse indicators because you'd think that they would be indications of where not to live but they're actually indications of where to live the the other one is how brutal are the winters basically you want to live in the least hospitable place that you can manage because if you can find out a
way to survive there for a year after the grid goes down 99% % of the people that would cause you problems will be gone and this is the brutal reality of the situation finally another thing I would think about if I were you and this is
this is a something you can look at regionally from a map and also it's going to be something that requires time on the ground how accessible are Wilderness areas from where you live so I'm not talking about I'm I'm from Maryland uh the Baltimore region specifically I'm not talking about a park you know Patapsco State Park I'm not talking about that you can Google it
that's not going to be enough if there would be 10,000 people crawling around that tiny little stand of trees that's not a wild area in fact this is a wonderful filter I didn't put this on the presentation but you could look up Wilderness areas so just so happens that in Western Montana there's tons and tons of wooded
areas that are federal forest service or state land and so they're not developed and we actually have named wildernesses like the Bob Marshall Wilderness Glacier National Park okay places like that where if you're close enough you can walk from your house to that place and have an extraordinarily
High likelihood of never seeing another human being for as long as you want and that's a really rare thing it's a really rare thing but if you lived in a place like that you could recreationally explore those areas while the lights are still on you could take family trips into the woods to go camping and you could poke around and see what's there and find the water sources and become familiar with the terrain and so
on so that's an extraordinarily valuable thing if you really expect any of these things to happen okay and and any of these things include Invasion we haven't mentioned that one but a foreign Invasion questions to ask along these lines are what kind of cover do you have so so if you live in the middle of Kansas unless you're hiding in a stand
of corn where are you going to how are you going to move through that terrain without being seen or heard if you ever if you have children have you ever been in a situation where you needed to keep them quiet have you ever been in a situation where they needed to stay quiet for weeks well you're probably going to need
a place that has some natural sound buffer so that bad people won't hear your kids from far away we talked about forest fires but also that mountainous terrain can help insulate you from shock waves from nuclear warheads and that's something to think about trees are good mountains are good Springs are good and so if you can find
these things and here's an example of the terrain of Montana and I'm not sure how clear this is I don't have a legend on here but we've got some really really mountainous areas in in this strand right here and actually this whole area is sparsely populated in part because of the terrain it's really hard to pop
subdivisions all over the place in here okay so this this is the Missoula area and this is densely populated but once you get out into these mountain passes it drops down to basically nothing I'm sorry I think this is the Missoula area here this the Bitterroot Valley and then up north to the Flathead
Lake so an area like this just to trace this out these would be good places to be now you don't want to be east of this mountain range because Great Falls is out here here and that's where the nukes are that's where the Air Force Base is but these mountains would insulate you from all that and they're all kinds little pockets through here okay but
again this is not an inexpensive place to live it's very expensive and uh that's unfortunate that's a that's a change since Co and I don't think it'll ever go back so it it might through various unlikely things but anyway I hope that gives you some ideas uh whether the specifics are useful to you or not hopefully it helps give you a framework that you can use