Map shows 150 mile radius around cities of 100K+ population

[opsec]

http://modernsurvivalblog.com/pictures/usa-survival-location-map-300-mile-zones-not-safe-with-population-more-than-100-thousand-1433x975.jpg

This is helpful for those who are looking for places to relocate too, or if not, then you know what direction your most likely threat is coming from. The map shows a 150 mile radius around all cities in the US that have a population of 100,000 or more. The idea is that you want to be outside of this radius when the balloon goes up. The author is of the opinion that the "horde" will only make it a maximum of 150 miles from these cities and has his reasons cited elsewhere.

[offdalip]

no, it's not that easy..........

you have to take into account difficulty of terrain

as well as the map doesn't distinguish between 100,000+ like boise vs 10,000,000 like NYC, the above comes into play on this as well

[opsec]

No, the map doesn't get that detailed.

[Atash Hagmahani]

Doesn't leave a lot of options, does it? A narrow band of semi-arid rocky ground on the high plains, northern Minnesota (deadly cold in winter...), northern Maine (diito), arid parts of the rocky mountains, parts of Montana, etc.

I see one spot that looks promising, surprisingly enough in the eastern USA, and I happen to know land prices there are low: central West Virginia. Hard to spot for all the widely-overlapping circles!! Population density is low, no big cities, winters are BRUTALLY cold but summers are hot enough to grow even watermelons. I would guess the soil is naturally tolerably fertile too.

I thought about West Virginia after an internet pal told me to come over there. Land quite affordable. Problem is surviving without a job and sky-high local unemployment rates, probably among the highest in the country but not counted because it has been going on so long since the mines shut down. Not that I would need a local job; my current line of business does not require my presence in any particular part of the world.