Where Do People Flee To?
In my book Survive 2012 there is a lot of advice about where people should have a safe spot, or in which direction they should escape from major cities around the world. But where would non-survivalists flee to? In general I’ve just assumed they’d head for the major arterial roads and leave cities the quickest way they can. One of the few specific guesses I have made is that Los Angeles folk will head for Las Vegas. But for other cities I have no idea. Where would people from London flee to?
Well, there’s been a study done on this very topic, and the answer makes sense – people head for somewhere familiar:
- where they grew up
- where they have relatives
- where they take vacations
So, lots of British folk will head to
- Devon and Cornwall
- the Lake District
- the Cotswolds
- Dorset
- Scotland
(according to travel writers from the Sunday Times at this website. I couldn’t find any official figures.)
Getting back to the study. They gained access to cell phone records of 2 million anonymous people in Haiti, before and after their killer quake in Jan 2010. Nearly 23% of Port-au-Prince’s total population left the city. And they found that people tended to return to places they had visited in the previous months, including Xmas.
So, when it is a long weekend where you live, which roads become the busiest? It makes sense that they will also be clogged when the SHTF.
