Business Insider suggests “12 Places To Go If The World Goes To Hell” (and you’ve miraculously managed to hold onto your private jet): Chiang Mai, Tristan da Cunha, Guam, Denver, Bern, Puncak Jaya, Capetown, Necker Island, Rio de Janeiro, Kansas City, Tierra del Fuego, Yukon.
Whew, that was close.
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Yep, a close call. It would have sucked to be on that list, eh? ~:D
Not too many people will move to a place where they have no way of knowing how to pronounce the jumble of letters like Saskatchbush…Saskratchacat…ah….forgettaboutit!!!
I hope all those rich people and their gold and jets don’t tip Guam over.
The author of the article uses some very spurious reasons for why these places should be viewed as sanctuary.
Oz
[[The author of the article uses some very spurious reasons for why these places should be viewed as sanctuary.]]
Excuses would be more accurate.
In my memory, Tristan de Cunha had to be TOTALLY evacuted. It’ a semi active volcano on the southern end of the mid-atlantic ridge and techtonically active. It’s a potential Krakatoa/Tambora/Santorini.
It’s a wonder he didn’t suggest a villa on Mount Herman…Lebanon….
@andycanuck:
LMAO!
I’ve seen a lot more depth in a travelogue. J school graduate?
“This Island chain in the South Atlantic is actually the world’s most remote inhabited achipelago. The population is just 271, so we’re sure they’re looking for new people. It’s known for excellent fishing — the perfect kind of self-sustaining career if times were to get really bad.”
What laughable naivety! I’m equally sure that the LAST thing these people want is for a bunch of useless,fatcat rich assholes,who don’t know how to fish or do anything else in survival mode,to crowd them out of their island paradise.
Their only use might be as slaves, or food,if things get really bad.
Hopefully, Islanders have been well-armed in preparation for this day.
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“dmorris says… useless, fatcat rich assholes”
hey, you just gotta think “outside the microwave” here.
in a post-apocalyptic world these pampered, overfed
lefties could be an important source of protein…
think “street veal”.
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sasquatch, I noticed that about Tristan de Cunha right away.
For spurious examples let’s take Bern.
The author says, “Yet to think that the nations’ mountains alone have defended Switzerland is to miss the savvy diplomatic genius of the country’s leadership.”
One of the reasons the world is “going to Hell” is Islam.
Savvy diplomatic genius isn’t going to be helping Bern, Islam is not ‘Bank Friendly’.
Basically, the author embraces all the Leftist talking points about what is wrong with the world, example Global Warming/peak oil, but ignores the real problems like Islam or a pandemic that could sweep through Asia and hit Chiang Mai in Thailand or Puncak Jaya in Indonesia(forget about the Bali bombing).
If the shit hit the fan, I cannot imagine a better place to be than on Vancouver Island.
Necker Island? I know Necker. With the carbon footprint of most megabucks, there’d be room for maybe, three.
I remember reading of an individual in the 1930’s that saw that a world war was shaping up and he decided that a perfect place to ride out the coming struggle would be a Pacific island.He picked Guam.It didnt work out well.
The story goes that an extremely wealthy German had the foresight in the mid-30s to realize that a worldwide war would erupt at some point.
After spending considerable time and money researching the safest haven in the world for his family to ride out the war, he liquidated his holdings and quietly moved them to one of the Solomon Islands, a place called Guadalcanal.
spike 1 – Jinx! Heh-heh…
Meat Cove didn’t make the list, I’m gutted truely gutted.
I stand corrected,it was Guadalcanal.I knew that it was a Pacific island and thought that it was Guam.
There’s also the one about the family that just wanted to get away from it all and live quietly somewhere really out of the way on a little farm and never be bothered again. It was aound 1980, and no place seemed deader than the Falkland Islands…
OZ
Bern. Hitler referred to Switzerland as “the hedgehog”. It is not and never has been the mountains…it’s the people…perhaps the most truly militaristic in the world.
Universal military service…two years active and lifetime membership in a fully armed militia. Switzerland can mobilize the entire able bodied population in under 48 hours…..returning home following active service they must report to the local militia headquarters and have their uniform, kit, weapon and ammo in their home.
Marksmanship is the national sport.
That’s a tough nut to crack.
Rio? Yeah, if everything’s blowing up, I want to go to a city where there are millions of people living in shantytowns right next to my condo. I mean, what could go wrong?
kevinb
triple ditto that sentiment in regard to Capetown….
you’d be eaten alive brother…
What? No location in Canada?
I thought we’d be one of THE locations to head to, given our ratings with the UN.
But then I remembered that we’re a Trudeaupian Dystopian Deranged Dominion, which IS hell, so why would anyone want to come here?
Right.
psssst… Yukon is in Canada batb. There is actually more of Canada west of Ontario 😉
“Universal military service…two years active and lifetime membership in a fully armed militia. Switzerland can mobilize the entire able bodied population in under 48 hours…..returning home following active service they must report to the local militia headquarters and have their uniform, kit, weapon and ammo in their home.”
Shhhh…don’t upset The Usual Suspects in the MSM with the fact of all these tens of thousands of Swiss men having their automatic rifle and 1,000 rounds of ammunition in their homes. (Along with all the rest of their own personal military kit, in case of any mobilization) Now by the theories of the west’s Gun Control crowd, Switzerland ought to therefore be the murder capital of the planet. Obviously it’s not and, while I don’t have the figures, I’d bet that the per capita rates of murder in Switzerland are below those of Ontario and Quebecistan, “safe” because of the Long Gun Registry.
Two thoughts.
One: The Yukon actually has the best growing economy in Canada. Not just hopefully forecasting it. Which is in opposition to the writer of the article.
Two: None of us want the yahoo’s that screwed up their backyard up here. We have enough problems with southern implants getting into government here and trying to nanny. Running them out of the territory is almost a full time job.
Thanks for the geography lesson, Texas Canuck. 😉
I might need new glasses … ‘completely missed Yukon at the end there … or maybe I didn’t read to the end, all the places seemed so exotic, never thought a place in Canada would be included …
Is the Yukon exotic?
And, why Kansas City?
“I cannot imagine a better place to be than on Vancouver Island.”
Shshhhhh. Don’t tell anybody. I just picked 20lbs of blackberries in just a couple of hours. Twenty four 250ml jars of jam and twenty bags of fress frozen berries.
Next week, I expect to catch at least 50lbs of Coho salmon from our local river and as for deer, well, you’re not allowed to shoot em’ but I know most gardeners in this town would sure like to and the city is talking about some humane way to do a major cull.
But you wouldn’t like it here. Really. It’s not that easy to get in and out of paradise and there’s way too many NDP’ers here.
batb asks: “Is the Yukon exotic?”
It is if you’re some dork journolister typing in a Manhattan third floor walk-up. I suppose muskeg and spruce trees for 1000 miles in all directions would look ok to that guy.
Me, I’m thinking mosquitoes the size of crows in summer and bears the size of Volkswagens in winter. Not all bad though. Summer you shoot skeet, winter you shoot high-power at 600 yards. Nice new rugs! ~:D
I think the phantom has no clue.
No I don’t think the Yukon is exotic but what do I know? I’ve only lived here for 40 years, and to me it seems about normal.
However I do know enough to know that BEARS HIBERNATE IN WINTER!
The Yukon really needs some entrepreneurs who are not all about mining the taxpayers in the producing provinces. Its all gument, all the time, all four bloated levels – totally reliant on handouts! The nannys moved in with Pennycut and the dippers in 84, Northern Nut. The Yukon was, indeed, a fine place to live before the Dipper crowd sleezed in – the Premier is a Dipper in New clothes – he never changed his underclothes – they rot and stink as I write. We have ONE worthy politician here, Mr. Brad Cathers. We need new blood.
Why Kansas City?
The BBQ, baby, the BBQ! Besides, as Bill James once noted “Kansas City has more fountains than Rome!”.
Isn’t Denver a suburb of Chicago?