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The One Mistake Preppers Make
Moving out of the city in a crisis makes sense, but here’s why you need to move back.
When I was 10, I built a bunker in my backyard. After inundating myself with every library book on nuclear war, this frightened child lost faith in humanity and picked up a shovel. My mother foiled the plan just as I dug down over my head and started to tunnel inward, in peril of a wall collapse that would suffocate me.
Consider this the warning for the inner child in every prepper: everything you do to stay alive is a mistake. One big one in particular.
Most preppers have one thing in common — themselves. Their only thought is to keep him or herself alive, along with a small nuclear family. In rare cases, a gated community or a trailer park may band together with a compact for the apocalypse, performing drills in the parking lot and simulated airsoft home invasions.
Preppers come in all sizes, with one goal: obtain as many surplus resources as possible with the budget available. A small budget buys you camping gear, weapons, canned food, bottled water. Larger budgets get you a boat filled with tinned rations or an RV on a plot of land in the country. Well-heeled preppers can afford bunkers inside former missile silos.
In all of these scenarios, the prepper has already failed. Here’s why.