Does Bugging Out = Becoming a Refugee
Photo from The Office of Refugees
There are folks that feel bugging out is the only option. I think truthfully many more plan to bug in than vocalize their intentions. Those that have a plan A to bug out are more quiet about their bug out location then they are about their plan to bug out. Preppers whose first plan is to bug in are already in their bug out locations. So it is wiser to stay silent about their plans. They don’t want to become the bug out location for everyone who knows you and didn’t prepare. Their preps could easily become the entire community’s plan B!
I personally think bugging out is only something one should do when there isn’t another option and if you have a personal prearranged pre-stocked bug out location outside the disaster area. (But this is only my personal opinion, everyone has to think about their own situation while prepping.) If you can run from the disaster, than not to do so isn’t prudent.
If we are talking about a nation wide crisis it will be everywhere. There will be no safe area to run to. The idea of living off the land really should be as temporary as possible a solution to survival. Living off the land could become the equivalent of becoming a refugee. Eventually the preps you were able to carry will run out. Those that have a bug out location, will fight off any attempts to take their supplies from them. But if a constant target they could perhaps be forced to hit the road again for their own safety. Under those circumstance you should be willing to join another group working your way into their good graces and earning your keep in their encampment. Which could become a permanent haven the same as an unofficial refugee camp eventually.
Some say they would leave the country. But most likely as refugees, if you are an American you could find that you would be the lest welcome of all the refugees in other countries. Even though the United States has taken in hundreds of thousand of refugees since its founding. You could become a refugee on the road perhaps permanently.
The featured article below from SHTF Plan speaks to the idea of those bugging out becoming refugees and really is a subject you should consider when planning to bug out.
The Fallacy of Bugging Out – Are You Prepared to Be a Refugee?
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