Suburban Prepping Tips:
A1: The main risk in the suburbs isn't long term if you are well prepared, it's during that first couple months when everybody else is starting to die. Chickens and backyard gardens are going to be easily noticed and highly coveted by starving people. That doesn't change anything you said, it is just something to be ready for (laying low for a couple months).
A2: Make friends with your neighbors, help each other, form a small tribe for after the collapse.
A3: During a calamity, no power, no water, no law, in the big cities.. It's all gang-related power, whatever your color, etc..
A4: In my Personal Opinion, there are four things you REALLY need for prepping. One is firearms and weapons. Two is a water source. Three is to avoid a big city and forth is most important of all. You need people. People are a commodity that you cannot do without.
A5: I hope you are away from all the fires. Also Agenda 21 seems to like the Burbs too. I am in burbs of KCMO and most of us are gun totin' semi-rednecks. So it's not likely marauders won't know what hits them if they try our area.
A6: During the Bolshevik revolution some of the most brutal crimes happened on the outskirts of town on farmland. Power in numbers.
A7: I disagree… as the clause starts the people from the city will start moving out towards the suburbs and decide whether or not to take what they want…unless you've started a group people will be so hungry and dehydrated they will overtake the people who are alone. The best place will be farther out of the suburbs where they can set up their own security.
A8: I think it is possible to survive and thrive in the suburbs post shtf ONLY if you know and get along with your neighbors now.
A9: Gangs won't be a threat in Rural areas, outback areas because, one they don't know the area, 2nd they will get shot in a SHTF situation, and lastly, Rural areas are a long drive, but so you know, most people in the back Country have food storage, many have farm animals, by far the back Country is the best place to be.
A10: You are absolutely right, make friends with your neighbors, help each other, form a small 'tribe' for after the collapse.
A11: Guess it depends on how long you want to remain out of the camps. They will move the cities then the suburbs then the urbans then finally sweep the rural. No one will have land.
My own take: Those living in the suburbs must be very careful, especially if they don't know or cannot trust their immediate neighbors. It will take 2 or 3 days for the average family to completely run out of food, then desperate people will go door to door begging for food. And if you give them anything - they WILL be back for more! It will take about a week before desperate people start trying to loot their neighbors and any suspected preppers around the area. Every prepper in a SHTF scenario living in a suburban community is likely doing to have to kill at least one person and discard the remnants and I say this because when people become desperate they will try to rob, rape and possibly kill you and your family over what they need to survive because they were too dumb to prepare. So the average prepper should own a two month backup supply of food, minimum. You want to wait it out and lay low when SHTF, and you definitely want to board up your home and fortify all the entry points! Within two months many of your neighbors will have died off by then. Then it might be safe enough to go out and salvage any resources nearby (wood, tools, arms/ammo, scrap metal, clothing, jewelry, fuel, etc). But you want to make sure all is calm around the area before you do this, and the indication should be when people are no longer going door to door and the sound of gunshots have completely stopped.
