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There are so many factors to consider when choosing where to buy a home—average home price, proximity to work, and obviously the odds of surviving a zombie apocalypse. That's why Estately Real Estate Search mapped out which states are the safest to live in if an army of the undead were to suddenly rise from their graves in search of brains to eat. To do this, we ranked each U.S. state from 1-50 using the following five criteria, and then averaged the results to create our final ranking.
- Fewest people per square mile
- Gun owners per capita
- Percentage who are cremated instead of buried
- Percentage of population that is physically active
- Interest in the zombie media genre
Source: http://blog.estately.com/2016/07/does-your-state-have-what-it-takes-to-survive-a-zombie-apocalypse/
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @06:27PM
Yeah, well when we cut off your supply of Colorado River water we'll see how long it takes before you eat your gun, or someone else makes you eat yours. (At least for any who are south of the Seligman-Prescott-St. Johns line.)
Sayeth an ex-Arizonan who misses the gun laws and the deserts, but also realizes just how overcrowded the deserts have become.
Arizona, there is no requirement to register a gun purchased in state, nor do they require permits for open carry, and unless you are seeking to carry out of state under a reciprocity law, you don't even need a permit to carry a concealed weapon. So I'd guess they asked a bunch of paranoid survivalists if they owned guns and got answered no or none of your fsck'n business. I don't know anyone who is a permanent resident here that doesn't have more than a few arms and a decent sized gun safe in the house somewhere. Not to mention a very large Marine presence and we all know THEY have guns. As for interest in Zombie media genre, that too is crap, the issue is who is prep'd for a civil emergency, e.g. off the grid survival, food and water and who is prepared to shoot. I'd have to say I would much rather be here than in Alaska should the infrastructure fail.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Monday July 25 2016, @06:45PM
In the event of a systemic failure I doubt anyone will have the equipment or the skill to cut off the supply of the Colorado river, and if it does happen you can count on quite a few pissed off survivalist with lots of firepower coming upriver to see what happened :)
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(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday July 26 2016, @12:53AM
If someone temporarily cuts off the Colorado, it will be back soon, and fast. At that point, the odds are that no-one will cut it off again for a really long long time...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 26 2016, @12:19PM
In the event of a systemic failure, we'll see how long the SRP repair crews last before moving elsewhere.
Or, phrased differently, you have no seem to have little clue about how much infrastructure is needed to water the desert and how fragile that infrastructure is.
And my bet is that I'll see a lot of dead dehydrated survivalists who never get out of the desert basin, coupled with a bunch of survivalists who shoot each other.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Tuesday July 26 2016, @04:40PM
I think you'll see a lot of survivalists moving north up the river, and of course a lot of very desiccated zombies in the Phoenix and Tucson area. A lot of folks will head east into the valley areas of California as well, and the border between AZ and Mexico will get overwhelmed quickly and violently by hordes or spicy zombies.
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