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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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Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:01PM
Not so much zombies, but I've considered areas that would have a decent chance of rebuilding civilization, or at least maintaining it.
Criteria:
Wide knowledge base- should be able to manage everything from animal husbandry to building a power plant
Farms close by- or more accurately farmers. Eventually even the Twinkies will go bad.
Colleges close by- more for their libraries and labs. And researchers.
Rural- you want people that are self-reliant. Most urban dwellers aren't.
Access to natural resources- even garbage dumps will be goldmines should everything fall apart.
Climate- mostly good rainfall
I pictured large cities becoming war zones (too many people, too few resources), several small towns managing okay especially since they aren't on anyone's radar as being resource rich, and college towns becoming the new epicenters of culture and trade.
There's a place that has a used media store next door to a liquor store. That will be the headquarters of my new republic.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:15PM
The CDC has said that if you're prepared for a zombie apocalypse you're also prepared for several more likely disasters, including disease, famine, war, or long term utility outages.
Last year we had a three day power outage for a several mile radius here. Food could not be purchased anywhere in the outage, since refrigerators, computers, and cash registers were down. Expand that one order of magnitude each in size and time and you have a real scenario.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:32PM
Yeah, I had gone through about a week of the utilities being out during a bad winter storm. Turns out the house is reasonably well insulted. Harvested ice to keep the food from perishing. And an old transistor radio ended up being my lifeline to the outside world.
The one thing I didn't not expect was how crucial communication was. You hear from friends which places were still open for business in neighboring towns, people would pile in one guy's pickup to get around, and most people weren't dicks buying out a store's supply. Most people only took what they needed.
And someone could at least get word to someone else to notify your family that you were okay.
And there was an actual caravan of people huffing booze in shopping carts down the street. Good times.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:40PM
Turns out the house is reasonably well insulted.
I don't see how swearing at it helps during a winter storm, but whatever keeps you warm, I guess.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday July 25 2016, @02:20AM
To be fair I'd feel insulted too if I were a house and my utilities had been out for a week.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @10:38PM
Yes, communication. Look to ham radio operators to be coordinating if something major happens.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @12:30AM
And in turn, ham operators will look to the postal services to deliver the inevitable QSL cards. Never mind the zombies, the mail will get through.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @12:20AM
I pictured large cities becoming war zones
Washington, Baltimore and Chicago already are, don't you know? Although it's black on black violence. As a very astute person has noted,
In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 per cent. They are up nearly 60 per cent in nearby Baltimore. In the President’s hometown of Chicago, more than 2,000 people have been the victims of shootings this year alone. And almost 4,000 have been killed in the Chicago area since he took office.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @02:00AM
We generally refer to southern Chicago as Chiraq. It's pretty bad. North of Chiraq is still safe enough: gay district, Chinatown, Koreatown, museums/planetarium/aquarium, etc still good places to visit.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Monday July 25 2016, @01:31PM