Planning the Next Great Migration

I’ve been asked to skip ahead and dive into the lists of potentially promising destination towns in specific states, and will start doing so. That will mean skipping over a lot of explanatory text about which parts of the country are most sustainable and able to accept more people, what I think their politics will be if the Union falls apart, why secular democrats shouldn’t let themselves get crowded into blue bantustans, what internet resources are available to do your own searching for personally attractive destinations, and so forth. I’ll go back and prepare those sections piecemeal later.

For now, though, I think I do need to comment a bit on my criteria. You may find online lists of “the best places to live in Ohio” or wherever, many or most of which will have been omitted by my search strategy, and you’ll wonder why I didn’t draw from those lists. Much of the reason is because my criteria are different: those lists are aimed at the upper-middle-class who can live wherever they like, whereas my target audience includes the lower-middle-class and downwardly mobile, who first and foremost need a community where they can keep a roof over their heads in a worsening future. For my purposes, a cheap town with several active factories is better than a picturesque and marvelously crime-free town. But if cost isn’t a consideration for you (you lucky person), you may wish to look elsewhere for guidance.