airforce, when you start reading it, you'll wish you had moved it to the top of your list. After reading the introduction I found myself wishing I had read this book 10 years ago.

Sniper_762x51, you and this author would have much in common, I think.

Breacher, if you're living in your city and the grid takes a dump, there will be no food, no power, no gasoline, and no services. If it is a one-day or two-day dump, then you'll likely survive. What if it's for a year? What if it's for two years? Or five years? How do you plan to eat? If you can acquire food somehow, how do you plan to store it? Will you be using skills that you already have, or will you just figure on picking up these skills when they're needed?

Leonidas, I'm with you on this one. Last October I made the move from a D.C. suburb to four miles outside of a small town. The difference is night and day. There are five houses reasonably close to mine (within earshot), and all of them are owned by shooters who have common survival skills (although they don't view them as survival skills, just living-in-the-country skills). During last winter's big snow storm, our power went out for a day and a half. I came home from work late that night to find a running generator providing power to a portable heater in my daughters' bedroom. Neither the generator nor the heater were mine. Nor did my wife have to go ask for help. A neighbor took it upon himself to help out us newbie city folks. Man, I thought I was good people, but they keep showing me what good people is all about (another neighbor mows much of our 5 acres each week just 'cause).

Anyway, this book is much more than "move out of the city." It's full of history and economics and philosophy and enlightened ways of looking at what survival really means and how to think about approaching it.

Peace