Hello Mr. Wolf, won't you please sit down?

[Hotzcatz]

Yeah, the DOW may become really irrelevant very soon. If money is worth nothing why bother piling it up in heaps?

I'm not sure about the land rush scenario, though. Folks generally "don't get it" until they personally are in some sort of hurt and by that time they no longer have the resources to relocate in any meaningful fashion. Also, other than lacking the resources to relocate, it takes a lot of resources to set up a workable situation once they arrive.

What's the psychology of financial stress? Do folks hunker down where they are or go off looking for somewhere better? Do they stay in place and keep scrabbling until there is nothing left in any of their reserves, either money or health? The mass migrations during the Great Depression were from drought, mostly, or losing their farms, wasn't it? It takes money to relocate so it is even harder to go somewhere when the stress factor causing the desire for somewhere different is lack of funds.

There is also the need for community and family when things get tight. To move here most of them would have to leave any support groups they would have.

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"I like yard sales," he said. "All true survivalists like yard sales."
Kurt Wilson