@Johny – In CT you might begin the night chasing skirt until you are chased by not so friendly characters. Rather have a braai/bbq at home I always I say.
@thedigininja – Thank you for the welcome. Ninja, I am definitely getting out the city. It is a simple matter of demographics (density) and proximity of their townships. Without law and order they loot what they can (Will kill if you try to stop them), in principle a house is no different. It is impossible to survive a siege of that nature without a relief force.
I will leave early and often, in other words, I will leave early and come back many times rather than being stuck here. I will, like you guessed, definitely bug out back to the country side. Daar waar die Boere bly.
Where I come from everybody are preppers, even if they have never heard the term. I do ok here, but I miss the country, city life is not for me. They have different shoes for every day of the week, I have been wearing my Jim Green leather boots every day for donkey years.
As for preps, I focus mainly on protection, maps and food. I have 200kg white rice, and a lot of canned food (Beans, sardines and bully beef mostly, some mixed veg and mixed fruit), 25kg salt. Still, it will only support us for about 8-9 months, but that is about as much as my trailer can handle along with fuel, water and other general stuff.
I don’t keep much fancy stuff, although I do plan to get a drone.
Ninja, are you up in the Highveld?