Also, realistically, if the situation is so awful that you're leaving home to head for the woods, it's going to be really CROWDED there. If it's bad enough for you to bail out, it will be bad enough for thousands of others to bail, too. I can't fathom the thinking of some people who think they will actually be alone out there, hunting and fishing and living off the land -- they won't be.

And any dreams of hunting and living off the land are just that: fantasy. Look at the refugee camps in the Middle East -- THAT'S what it would look like.

At home I have an acre of arable land, shelter of some kind, tools and books, food and six young hens. I've also got neighbors who could be very useful. There would be none of that in the woods.

Sue