{"id":3377,"date":"2012-06-22T18:37:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T08:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2012-06-22T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T08:37:59","slug":"where-do-people-flee-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/06\/where-do-people-flee-to-3377.html","title":{"rendered":"Where Do People Flee To?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my book Survive 2012<\/a><\/em><\/strong> 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?<\/p>\n

Well, there’s been a study done on this very topic, and the answer makes sense – people head for somewhere familiar:<\/p>\n

\n
where they grew up<\/li>\n
where they have relatives<\/li>\n
where they take vacations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
So, lots of British folk will head to<\/p>\n
\n
Devon and Cornwall<\/li>\n
the Lake District<\/li>\n
the Cotswolds<\/li>\n
Dorset<\/li>\n
Scotland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
(according to travel writers from the Sunday Times at this\u00a0 website<\/a>. I couldn’t find any official figures.)<\/p>\n
Getting back to the study<\/a>. 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.\u00a0And they found that people tended to return to places they had visited in the previous months, including Xmas.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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?
\nWell, there’s been a study done on this very topic, and the answer makes sense – people head for somewhere familiar:<\/p>\n
where they grew up
\nwhere they have relatives
\nwhere they take vacations<\/p>\n
So, lots of British folk will head to<\/p>\n
Devon and Cornwall
\nthe Lake District
\nthe Cotswolds
\nDorset
\nScotland<\/p>\n
(according to travel writers from the Sunday Times at this\u00a0website. I couldn’t find any official figures.)
\nGetting back to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safe-spots","category-survivalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}