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>The countryside will be much better off.

I would hope so but there would still be the potential for roaming gangs and marauders. It's not like we won't have poor desperate people living in nearby towns that won't be prepared after all and when people start to starve they get brutal. One of my preps has been planting apple trees from a distance from my homestead, I figure if SHTF and people are hungry nearby there will be apples they can eat so they won't bother me. I only hope it pays off is all, I rather not have to shoot anyone if I can help it.