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Interesting.

How do you escape from America?

Take Krugerrands from Seattle to Vancouver BC airport, fly to Costa Rica.

I worked with Vietnamese boat people doing electronics design.

They got from being wealthy in Vietnam when it fell, to robbed of their Gold by pirates, to a refugee camp in the Pacific. When the got to the USA one guy I worked with learned English, learned electronics, and was working with me as one of my technicians in two years. He went to night school and got a masters degree in electrical engineering and became my peer. After a couple years of that he was too rich to work as engineer any longer, as the money he sent to his parents in Texas had done well as an investment.

5 years from no English, no money, to too rich to be an engineer.

At the same time I knew a guy whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, his father was a PhD, he was a degreed engineer working for me as a technician, and he was always broke. He has no end of buried weapons and spider holes. His vehicle was a 4 wheel drive truck with no reflective surfaces.

Who was the real survivalist?

ClarkM: Pardon my slow reply I have been chasin guns and sighting in guns (NO wind!) here the last couple of days.
I am sure there are many ways "I" or anyone else could have invested their monies and would have done better (percentage of return wise) than investing in "guns"!
MANY years ago I arrested and put in irons "the richest man in the world" at the time (and he still would be if he had not given so much of his incredible fortune away!) and towed his hot rod boat along with him and his girlfriend to the harbor police station.
While we were waiting for his minions to bring his identification, his boats identification and a boat trailer to the harbor station - we talked.
I eventually asked him if it would be wise to buy stock in his company at THAT time - as his stock had EXPLODED so far to date.
He modestly replied "I would not put ALL my (my as in VarmintGuy) money in his stock"!
So I didn't!
If I had, I would now be worth $10,000,000.00 (ten million dollars!) more than I'm worth today - $1,000,000.00 (one million dollars!)!
So be that - I just enjoy investing in guns and on occasion selling them for a profit so's I can buy MORE guns!
By the way I (we) arrested the same said multi-billionaire, the very next year for the very same thing and towed him and his new hotrod boat and his new girlfriend to the same harbor station!
Guy was a speed demon - I am happy he settled down before he hurt someone or himself!
I think I'll keep gamblin on guns - it's fun!
By the way I very much enjoyed your story about the "boat guy" turned American success story.
I had MANY occasions to interact with "boat people" during my professional career and indeed they were THE most industrious group of people I have ever encountered (Jews being a close second!).
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

What to focus on about survivalism is reproduction.

The town in WA where I live has more than 10X the per capita income, compared to the town in MT where I hunt. But they are having kids in small town MT. Where I live there is grandkid envy.

If I could broker the deal, I could get over $1M for the first grandkid in half the households in my city. These liberal females that were brainwashed in college do not want to reproduce. Now the rich old retired liberals are paying the price..... money won't buy grandkids.


On wind. I spent the 1970s and 1980s checking wind in WA so I could salmon fish.
Now in MT on a hunting trip, I just watch TV is the wind is 20 mph.
To sight in a rifle in MT on public land, @5 mph wind I do left to right at 50 yards with the wind at my back. The I do elevation at 200 yards. Based on that I can hit an antelope right where I aim at 450 yards, at day break with no wind.