How I’m Preparing for the Upcoming Collapse, and Steps You Can Take to Find Your Prepper Spot.

1Psuedonym
4 min readNov 21, 2023

The economy is growing. Unemployment is at 3%. By all metrics, everything is fine. We know better, though, don’t we? How I’ve uprooted my life in preparation for what comes next…

I’ve been on a ten-year journey to find the perfect spot to hunker down and live through the ongoing collapse. Regardless of your political affiliation, we can all feel things shifting in our world: climate, economy, political unrest. Almost every aspect of our lives is different — harder, I’d argue — now than it was five or ten years ago.

No place is perfect, but if you follow these steps, you’ll find a good spot for you and your family.

Step One: Focus on your lifestyle. How do you want to live?

How you want to live during an ongoing collapse is the most important aspect of this journey for you to figure out. Once you know the “how” it’ll make the where an easier decision.

In this move, we focused on self-sufficiency in terms of being off-grid. We don’t want to be 100% off-grid all the time, but can we live comfortably if the power goes out for an extended period of time? Can we heat our house when the electricity is out? Yes. We have a wood stove. Can we get clean…

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1Psuedonym

Writing about what I see in this world. Amateur scribbler with a curiosity for new experiences.