I live in New Jersey. I do not have 40 acres. I cannot dig a well in my backyard. My “bug-out location” is not a self-sustaining homestead in the mountains — it is a cabin in the Poconos I share with other people and need to drive 90 minutes to reach. My neighbors are close enough that I can hear their TV through the wall. And yet every prepper article I read for years seemed to assume I lived on a remote rural property with a creek running through it. Most preppers are suburban or urban. Most p