Is this a good time to move to the country?

[Lancer]

I live in a city of 5000-6000. The breeze blows fairly constantly, it's a terrible target for terrorists as they couldn't kill many people here.

How about where you live? Have you thought about what you would do if a dirty bomb went off in your city? Or a large scale anthrax or small pox attack?

Have you thought at all about a nice quiet place in the country?

In the 60s some people put bomb shelters in their yards.

Recently I saw a show about 'panic rooms' that are basicly steel boxes that people could wait out danger in...selling like hotcakes. I wonder though, could a person wait out a dirty bomb? Aren't radioactive particles going to be around long term?

Strange feeling, kind of like those old cold war days, hiding under the desk at school.

Thoughts on how terrorism might figure in your decisions?

[General Ludd]

No.

[Lancer]

Can never get a straight answer outa you Osweld.

[Buck Birdseed]

5-6000 is hardly a city, it's barely even a town! There are bigger villages out there. You already live in the country, man.

[Jon Miller]

5000-6000 is Town

I have thought about it for a time

but I really don't ahve much of a choice, going to universities and all

I guess I just hope that it doesn't happend to me, or doesn't happend to me soon

Jon Miller

[Lancer]

No, I'm not concerned for myself, I'm concerned for you guys.

[Buck Birdseed]

Bah. Everything that's under 1 000 000 in population is just fields and farmyard animals as far as I'm concerned. I'm stuck in a 100 000 pop provincial hellhole, in constant fear of whippets and ricketts.

[General Ludd]

I grew up in a village of 300-500.

[Buck Birdseed]

Ick. The horror. I grew up in three cities, each with a population of 1.5-2 million.

[Lancer]

Buck, 100,000? That's a mega ****ing lopolis to me! It takes me a hour driving to get anywhere near a city that size. (Way too close)

Osweld, that's a bit small. That size town and you're lucky to have a dusty little store.

[Traianvs]

I haven't thought about it, as I have no reason to fear anything...
My home is in a 12000 town, and during weektime when I live near the university (numbering 28000 students!) I live in a small city, so moving is kind of stupid for me, as I don't live in one place anyway!


Besides, finding countryside in the region I live in is very difficult as it hardly exists anymore (there are a few "more rural" areas in northeast and southwest Flanders but the ppl that live there are spooks ), my town is almost part of the city, though still not suburban like in big (American) cities...


I just watched Bowling for Columbine... Moore sure gave me the impression Americans were kinda edgy and scared, especially with all the terrorist **** going on now, is that how you feel too...? I mean has anyone here bought basmasks, generators, stockpiled a nice amount of water, or even built a bomb shelter?? it's just mass hysteria, and "only in America" I must say..

In any case the absurdly high number of gunshootings (and deaths resulting from it) are quite freaky, you guys know why?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Lancer
Osweld, that's a bit small. That size town and you're lucky to have a dusty little store.

Just a general store.

Actually, there was also a wood stove shop that doubled as a general store when the other one wasn't around, and a nick-nack store. My mother also turned part of our house into an art store for a while. Every year there was a writer's festivel that drew alot of well known (and not-so) writers, and tons of people to the town.


Oh, and can't forget the small candy and ice-cream shop that was run out of a converted shed. That's where all my allowance would always go.

[Zkribbler]

I think about it occasionally.

I work in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, which I figure is the terrorists' No. 3 target after New York and Washington D.C. I'm less that two blocks from city hall and just north of the financial district. If a dirty bombs goes off in L.A., I'm toast.

But there hasn't been a decent-sized terrorist attack in a year and a half. I've been trying to figure out what happened to the supposed 100,000 trained terrorists that graduated from terrorist school in Afghanistan. My best guess is that they went home, got jobs, started families, and their wives won't let them go out with the boys and commit international acts of terror.

[Paul Hanson]

Never really considered the possibility of it, to be honest. I go to uni in a city with a population somewhere is the region of 3-4 hundred thousand (I think), and the idea that terrorists would want to attack it seems a tad unlikely.

At the weekend, I go home (because I can't think of a good reason to hang around Hull when I don't have to) to a village of about 2000 inhabitants. I doubt the terrorists would want to hit rural Scawby, so I don't worry about it.

[Buck Birdseed]

Is, like, the tow-village distinction way different from country to country? My parents have a summer house in the village of Sülysáp in Hungary, which has a population of 7500, and no-one considers that a town! It's not even the largest village in the area by a good distance.