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Letter Re: The Shenandoah Valley as a Retreat Locale?
James:
"Doug Carlton" makes many salient points for those currently searching
for retreat locations. Might I add a couple more that helped me in finding
our place in southwest Virginia.
For every region of interest to me, I gathered a century worth of census data,
available online. If you want to get a good picture of a community, this is
an excellent place to start.
Second, I read Mark
Monmonier's "Cartographies of Danger." Monmonier
is a bit of an odd duck in the professorial geography/mapping community. I
have no idea of his world view, but everything he writes is engaging and informative. "Cartographies
of Danger" is perhaps unique in the world of scholarship-based publishing
in that it a very low political correctness factor. He calls 'em like he sees
'em, including insightful content on social instabilities. Of course, it includes
the items you would expect especially the distribution and frequency of natural
disaster occurrences that I had not fully appreciated before. All the Best, - Crusher
JWR Replies: Most SurvivalBlog readers are well aware that
my view of economics is of the Austrian
school. Perhaps less well known is that my view of history is of the geographical
determinist school. I've been enthusiastically in that camp for three decades.
That viewpoint is part of what has driven my strong emphasis on relocation
to lightly-populated regions that are well removed from major population centers
and safely away from refugee lines of drift.
