Actaully, for a long term bug out, you are better off going some place where you are known and expected. Or not bugging out at all.

Everyone who's been here a while has heard me say this- if you aren't known to a landholder in an emergency, and you are squatting on that land, you are stealing from him. In emergencies, the law recognizes the rights of a landholder to deal with looters on thier own. And sure, you might be able to get one or two, but an entire town, good luck.

Trust me, stay in the city. You'll live longer, not becuase you are less likely to be shot for looting, but becuase that is where anything worth looting is stockpiled. Stored food, medicines, fuel, those are all stored in suburbia in warehouses built before the burbs sprawled out around them. Plus you ahve shelter, and seed, and the big military depots tend to be near urban areas. In the rural parts of the country, if we tried living off the land, we'd be eating eachother in six months tops, simply due to game being reduced by habitat destruction, and to crop and storage failure.

Not to mention too many *censored for ten minutes* flatlanders.