Important Matters - survival in a post apocalyptic world. Which country?

[Mungo]

Regardless of what causes the apocalypse, (zombies, viral, nukes,) I'm going to die pretty soon, since I'm a diabetic and medical supplies would almost be nonexistant.          But if that weren't the case and I had unlimited travel opportunities?

Tasmania comes to mind. Don't really know much about it, but it's an island, so that would give me some protections if the zombies were from an outside source. If it were nukes, Tasmania doesn't seem like it'd be high on the list of intended targets. And with Viral, you aren't safe anywhere. Additionally, you can get to Antarctica from there.

[Ball-o-Cheese]

That still doesn't nullify my point that Africa will be the only place to survive the nukes. I think I'd stand a slightly better chance against madmen with guns than against a nuclear explosion.

No one ever decreed nukes, but even taking that as your Apocalypse scenario its a retarded choice. You probably don't speak any of the languages, you would be a cultural outsider at best and viewed as a enemy at worst. You would have no knowledge of the terrain, environment, people, weather, or resources. These are all absolutely critical to survival on the base level. Wherever you are now, you know what to expect in regard to nature, you know where things are located, and unless you're a complete social cripple there are people who would help you and provide some kind of core social grouping. You have none of that if you zip thousands of miles away to a radically differnt place.

Besides, If there has been a big enough nuclear exchange to render the whole of North America uninhabitable, the aftereffects are probably going to fuck Africa as badly as anywhere else.

[SixStringSamurai]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)

The above is an interesting novel on this sort of subject.

Global nuclear war is named such because the impact is global, not because the Sudan is suddenly going to launch an ICBM at Hong Kong. Basically, wouldn't you rather play a nice game of chess?

[Ytts]

Regardless of what causes the apocalypse, (zombies, viral, nukes,) I'm going to die pretty soon, since I'm a diabetic and medical supplies would almost be nonexistant.

This is where you learn to become a shepherd and raise a flock of sheep. You could get about as much insulin as you need from killing a sheep a month.

[Dalton]

And by what vampiric ritual is your average teenager/young adult with (assumedly) no education or facilities going to extract the insulin from the sheep?

Edit: also I'm basing all of my apocalypse theories on the probable assumption that if the apocalypse is man-made in nature (N/B/C weaponry for instance) the most likely target is USA. And if somebody has a payload big enough to make it worthy of the title "apocalypse" and not just "Oh crap New York City got blown up but everybody else is okay" then they're probably going to be sure to spread the love throughout the entire country, if not the continent.

If we're going to assume the rural areas of North America remain safe, then I guess I'd be fine. I live in a relatively rural place and I know how to hunt and fish, and farming certainly isn't beyond my capabilities. Our economy is halfway based on farms and fish anyway (the other half is tourists because you dopes travel from all over USA and Canada just to sit on our beach and eat french fries. Why, I have no idea)

[Ytts]

And by what vampiric ritual is your average teenager/young adult with (assumedly) no education or facilities going to extract the insulin from the sheep?

They'll have the rest of their lives to figure it out.

[Bane]

The place most likely to survive an apocalypse is Africa because nobody gives a crap about that continent, so when the nukes fly that will be the only place that doesn't get leveled.

Some sandy, desolate desert in the middle east/north eastern africa. Sort of at a disadvantage with them not needing as much water, but it's easy to get lost, survival was always difficult but basic anyway, and sand zombies are all kinds of awesome.

You guys probably wouldn't last a month in actual Africa before the Apocalypse, and afterward you wouldn't even be worth ransom money that might keep you alive today.

I'm pretty sure if I was put in a desert area even 10 miles from some town at this moment, I'd die. I definitely don't have the survival skills necessary (or ingenuity, probably) to make a living there. In the given scenario though, I included the assumption that I did. It was about zombies anyway, so I can afford to be generous and fictitious.

I like the idea of being on an island as well though, whoever said that. Can't be bothered to look back. A nice anti-world alternative, barring atmospheric hell.

[Elijah]

Jamaica, Bahamas, come on little mama, down to Kokomooooo!

[Ball-o-Cheese]

Jamaica, Bahamas, come on little mama, down to Kokomooooo!

Jamaica has one of the highest reported murder rates in the world, fyi. That's before the Apocalypse. Bahamas is the better bet.

[Ytts]

Do you have a preferred destination, BoC?

[Ball-o-Cheese]

Do you have a preferred destination, BoC?

In the event of an Apocalypse? Not really. Our current population arrangements (both in number and distribution) are only possible due to an immense amount of technology and logistics. As soon as that grinds to a halt, things will get bad for everyone that doesn't already exist in a subsistence setting.

I'd probably stay put, for all the reasons I gave above; I know people here, I have a community and a social network I can tap into, I have some idea of what to expect from the weather and the terrain. Georgia isn't great, but I know about the flora and fauna here, unlike Tasmania where I'd probably die to some horrendous spider I never knew about. In the long term the weather is pretty mild and theres a decent growing season. The population is still too high to prevent droves of people dying, though.

I have social networks in the UK, but the population is far too dense there to make it feasible, and you would face real risks from the weather. I also have networks in Kenya, but we would be obvious social targets if things fell apart.

[Alec]

I'd wanna be in Paris, digging my livelyhood somewhere deep in the metro tunnels. If living beings can't even figure out the transit system, then zombies have no chance.

[Bane]

A few hundred thousand years later, the morlocks resurface.