{"id":23396,"date":"2017-03-31T13:51:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23396"},"modified":"2017-03-31T13:51:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:51:48","slug":"having-a-retreat-property-comes-with-real-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23396","title":{"rendered":"Having A ‘Retreat’ Property Comes With Real Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Having A ‘Retreat’ Property Comes With Real Challenges<\/a><\/h3>\n
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About that bug-out plan…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
A flurry of recent headlines<\/a> has highlighted the financial elites\u2019 interest in secure retreats (a.k.a. bug-out locations) should the trucks stop rolling. That those with the most money and access to expertise are preparing safe havens has moved the conversation about bug-out plans from the alt-media to the mainstream, however briefly.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The basic idea is to develop some measure of security in an increasingly insecure world, and pursue some measure of independence in an increasingly fragile system of global supply chains.<\/p>\n

The intuitive solution to many, from the super-wealthy on down, is some version of a hideaway in the woods: a remote locale known only to the owner, where the owner can burrow safely away until the storm passes.<\/p>\n

It turns out security and independence are tricky qualities, and surprising reversals are not just possible but likely: what appears to be secure at first glance might be highly insecure, and independence turns out to be highly relative.<\/p>\n

The Remote Cabin in the Woods: The Perfect Target for Theft<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first problem with the remote cabin in the woods (RCITW) bug-out plan is that \u201cremote\u201d and \u201csecret\u201d are two different things. As I explained in my 2008 essay The Art of Survival, Taoism and the Warring States<\/a>, the local residents have a much different view of what\u2019s remote and secret than outsiders.<\/p>\n

Simply put, if humans are settled anywhere nearby, nothing is remote or secret. I have come across guys on foot in extremely remote logging roads miles from any paved road, much less a settlement. I\u2019ve been startled by hunters on family-owned wooded acreage far from neighbors or towns.<\/p>\n

Throw in drones, Internet access to terrain photography that was once the domain of spy satellites, and humans\u2019 healthy curiosity, and \u201cremote\u201d and \u201csecret\u201d just got even scarcer.<\/p>\n

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