China watch.

Whatcu mean shortages in the future ? Try and buy irrigation gear, firtaliser and so on. Prices are double last yer, if you can get it and 6 months wait.

Were screwed already people, stock up on food and seeds. You have been warned.





Nobody watches you harder than the people that don’t like you. Give them a show.

Like the great Hyundai oil filter shortage. Lengthy back order for MWAT, full shelves of them in my local auto parts store. Same same .22ammo, MWAT can’t get any at the same time my local has pallets of it. If you gonna bug out early you need your supply line sorted. Like my son, he moved to rural southern NSW for a better lifestyle, local shop got none of the .22 projectiles he needs, but he’s got a supply line (me) in place sending him stuff sourced in Sydney. 

One of the biggest disadvantages of rural life. Sure, you're away from everyone else. But therein lies the problem, you're also away from everyTHING else. Things that we used to find easy to get are now not so easy. We used to get a specific brand of shoes for the smallest sprout because they're designed specifically to take the abuse of young kids. You're far more likely as a kid to grow out of them than destroy them. Cost a bit more, but worth it to only have to upgrade because of a size issue and not because they just fell apart after 6 months.

Can't get 'em here. You have to order online which is sketchy if you don't know their current size in that brand. Obviously you can mail them back and have them exchanged but the reality is that everything is that little bit harder. And that's just for shoes. Choices are far more limited because there's a lot less brands available in general of all sorts of things. I already knew that would be the case but you never know what's going to be limited choice until you go looking for it.

It's going to be far worse if SHTF in shipping/transport. Might be worth starting a "What do you need" thread so that we can network getting items to each other if that happens. I know there's quite a few secondary industry things that would probably be easier for me to source over here and send over if someone needed it and couldn't get it locally.

Good points, but a large Wollies, Coles, and numerous shops, doctors etc, are only 50 mins or so drive away. And being such a distance away encourages you to do a list of whats needed every week and stick to it. Yes, its inconvenient to need something and its not local, but the local Rural Agents is only 15 minutes down the road, yes, prices are higher, but we accept that as part of the price for being out here. There is a reasonably well stocked general store there, a Post Office, Churches, Police and Fire Stations, Infants/Primary School, (The school bus passes our front gate), a pub and the Rural Agents sell petrol and diesel as well as fencing supplies, common pipe fittings, screws and so on.

The price difference is more than made up by not having to run to town and use all that petrol getting something.

We are lucky our kids were all home schooled, with an occasional trip to the Center in town to pick up or hand in work. The youngest is still going once a week, and that becomes the town day for us.

There is a large organic feed mill 5 minutes away, the tip 10 minutes away, a major hospital 20 minutes away, with a Doctor who was the top skin cancer specialist in Sydney till he decided he and his family had had enough. No waiting, no appointments needed for small things, and a Chemist adjacent.

Give me the country life any time, less stress, less noise, pollution and so on. Internet is expensive through the satellite, but just as quick as town, perhaps better in some ways.






Ive seen the evidence for, I want to see other evidence.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius

Sticks and stones.........








The Simpsons Movie. “See our family. And feel better about yours.”

As Ive mentioned in a previous post, the one child policy worked very well, they are doomed.





The future ? "A man’s uneventful life is disrupted by the zombie apocalypse"

I keep coming back to the 2027 date. For various reasons but not least because that's when Pooh Bear has said he wants his troops ready. When I think on our future plans a lot of it is based on being as self sufficient as possible by Jan 27. After that whatever happens, we're in a better position than before. So many of the documentaries I've seen about wars have said that people in the country almost always fare better than those in the cities. We're definitely not in the city now! But our plans to move further out have us out of this house and on something arable in a year to two years time because we'll need a couple of years of growing behind us if we're to be even close to ready for a huge war to pop off in our region.