The problem I'm seeing is we don't have much choice. Any good land where you could survive in bad times it too far away from jobs during the good times. I live near a city so I can afford to take care of my family and get the kids in halfway decent schools. If I were to move to our farm, there are no jobs and there are no decent schools. The farm land where I would bug out to was passed down so I didn't have to pay for it otherwise I wouldn't have any place to go.
You can do what I do. I wake up at 5:00 AM in Pennsylvania on a huge piece of land, with my own 300,000 gallon pond, with state game lands all around me, and I work in midtown manhattan at a high-end digital media agency. We "do web sites" like NASA does "Fireworks".
I can afford to send my kids to private schools 'cause my housing is so much cheaper, I have my own rifle range in the back yard, a backhoe and a big garden as well as a workshop that's pretty darn good. Sure, I commute 4 hours a day, but you know what? I end up out of the house from 5:30 AM to 6:30 PM - is that really any different than any other white-collar job? A little earlier in the beginning, about the same at the end.
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