In the event of a zombie apocalypse, what would you do to survive and where would you go?

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This is, of course,  hypothetical .

Decoded93 · Accepted Answer

Build up a group of people, keep us armed to fend off zombies and bandits, look for a place that has safety without corrupt leaders and try to rebuild society

In my ideal system I'd get ahold of an ar15 and lots of ammunition, I think that's the best gun for this kind of situation due to availability of parts, ammo, and magazines, plus you could use rails to attach a scope, my ideal melee weapon would be a gladius which is what the Romans used, you could grab a shield, it's probably the most brutal sword that still works inside tight places

BoopBoopBeep · Accepted Answer

I've got access to food, access to water, significant stockpile of both (and ammo), 25 acres of woodland behind me and am built into the side of a hard advance. The house has redundant motion sensors that I can use to pinpoint which piece of furniture someone is hiding behind and there are multiple bullet resistant hardpoints scattered at key locations throughout the house.

Plus my rescue kittens don't like traveling. We hunker down in place.

Siri137 · Accepted Answer

Well, where I live is pretty isolated anyway, a small town of approx. 1500 people. The zombies are likely to make their way from the nearest large city (that's where the outbreaks always start), and at the first sign of their appearance I'd hop in my (very reliable and comfortable) car and just drive. If any of them got in my way, I'd just crunch them under my wheels! :D

Agape93 · Accepted Answer

Put our plan in action, and there will be a lot of gunfire.

Berethor · Answer

Then I might need to stop playing Doomsday Shelter: Survival, it's good game by the way.

razelove · Answer

I think more about financial collapse, but they're both similar. Convert my well from electricity to hand pump, put rain collecting barrels on the roof, concrete planters in the driveway, dig the ditch from the front of my house all the way around the property and much deeper, sandbag the dirt against the walls.

Booby trap every inch of the ditch, and my entire yard. Not much else to do, I have too many kids to pursue that nomad lifestyle.

I already have seeds for crops, though at the moment all I grow are herbs and seasonings because it's much cheaper and less effort to just buy grains and vegetables right now.

BadApple69 · Answer

I would go no where to start. Shelter in place is my best option. I have about a years worth of food, and enough water for a very long time. House is easily fortified so I would stay until the zombies naturally decayed and fell apart. More then the zombies the issue is other survivors. They will be hungry and want what you have. To protect yourself, your family and your very survival you will have to be willing to kill. Not easy for a person who has the food and is well fed, much easier for a starving person. And unlike today (no apocalypse) sharing isn’t caring. Sharing is dooming everyone involved.

Good luck during the apocalypse.

BeMuse · Answer

Why would I go anywhere? I live in Florida on agricultural acreage… I have a 12 month growing season. I never have to deal with snow or cold. I have multiple highly productive artesian wells. I have an established food forest of my own. There is also broad acreage of citrus groves and whatnot around. I have a reasonable sized solar array. I have plenty of tools around the farm. There is excellent salt water, brackish, and freshwater fisheries close by and tens of thousands of acres of wilderness to hunt. All of my neighbors have guns, many of them are veterans, and my next door neighbor use to be a cowboy for most of his life on those tens of thousands of acres of land before they were turned into a state park. He knows every inch of them… My neighborhood is very community oriented… People help each other out. Most people have gardens, fruit trees, and livestock of some sort. I think I’ll just stay here.

zeitgeist057 · Answer

I see a lot of answers about what weapons to use, armor, how to fight and destroy and stockpile, &c.

I'm not really into doing all that every day, sounds like a stressful hassle and heaps of work, not to mention dangerous. I would just untie my yacht from the dock and set sail out into the ocean. Figure out a place here or there I could get fruits and veggies, otherwise fish is great and I can go a long time on just fish. Scurvy actually takes a long ass time to get, and the basic supply of vitamin C packs I have would stave it off for decades. I'm pretty well stocked on some of the other basics like a giant bag of beans and rice.

In the event of a zombie apocalypse, what would you do to survive and where would you go?

Maybe I'd find some island untouched by the Horde? Start a mango farm or something :)

DarkWinterNights · Answer

It all depends on the situation and how it starts. In most cases you want to hunker down, but have a quick escape plan. I have a couple of bug out locations, friends and equipment I can fall back on. Unfortunately my biggest oversight is my day job. To go North to basically all but one resource requires passage through a single highway which would be shared with 80% of people trying to leave. So provided it happens outside of work hours or I can be one of the first out/before the blow the bridges, I’ll be fine.

Phoenix98 · Answer

Countryside where I live, it's wide open there's animals to hunt, fish to catch it would be easy to get away from zombies compared to being in a cramped city or even a smaller town and because of the wide open space it'd be easy to see zombies coming and in general where they are.

And there are pockets of forest and tree's so I guess easier to conceal yourself since technically zombies can still see or you could use the wood to build a house or compound/wall. And there's also lots of areas with cattle fencing so zombies would probably get stuck in them making them easier to kill.

Really the countryside is the best place to go because of all the reasons I stated above.

MysticDevice · Answer

Lol I've been preparing for this since I first played Left 4 Dead all those years ago.

The plan is to grab all my weapons and tools and throw them in the truck. Meet up with my pals at my buddy's parents' farm. There we'll make our final preparations and make the drive up north to the cabin. (We can make it there on a half tank of gas in each truck. While hauling tons of stuff. We've done it before.) There we can live off the land, outlast society's collapse, and return to the city to rule over the new world as our Feifdom.

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

I honestly would stay home, my town isn't that populated, the house can be easily secured. I got multiple guns and bladed weapons, though I would avoid using the guns and only shoot if its really urgent. Many preppers underestimate the dangers of guns: they are very loud, even with silencer, and attract nearbys, also you eventually run out of ammo. For melee weapons, blunt force weapons, like bats and maces are the best, blades can get stuck, break and need to get sharpened.

To live self sustaining, I have a garden outside, a food cellar, a rain collector and soon to be installed solar panels. Also I live at the end of the town next to a forested area where you could hunt or drive off over quiet country roads if the house would be breached.

So just need to be quiet and dont bring the zombies attention

DextroShade · Answer

I already live in the country and have land and guns, but I would need to salvage solar panels and figure out how to install them so I could keep power going to my well pump so I don't run out of water.

Drewtate · Answer

Probably try to hold up in a major store like wallmart for the food and ammunition and wait it out. Essentially you need somewhat zombie free that has strong walls food and water which could be anything from a fall out shelter to a colonial Fort museum. You could always become a marauder.

I've a bug out bag so maybe head to somewhere with little population.

Kiss_Me · Answer

Emergency 101:

Shelter is first

Safety is second

Water is third

Food is forth

I'd head to the nearest comprehensive High School. They have plenty of room with controllable access. The walls are thick and difficult to breech (for a zombie.) It also has a large kitchen with stockpiles of food. Access to plumbing, electrical, and auto shop could also be available. Survivability also increases with group size. Adding more people is scalable as well.

shortster · Answer

Go to Walmart and grab alarm clocks and extension cords. Setup a series of clocks to go off every hour in a large circle. The larger the circle the better. Clocks should be within earshot of each other. Go to the power plant and ensure that it keeps running. Setup home base in an apartment building on the third floor remove the stairs from the second floor to the third floor. Add a rope ladder from the second floor balcony to the third floor balcony. Start farming.

ryanrhino · Answer

I'd be one of the first to catch it as I get sick easily now. I would be any of those extras in the background getting slaughtered that the main characters are passing.

I didn't when I was young, having perfect school attendance for 6 years until the winter before my senior year-ugh, so sad...

Drumlin2001 · Answer

I'd grab machete or two, make sure my partner and jids were safe with me. Depends if phones still worked. If so, I'd contact as many friends and family locally and try to pool resources, choose somewhere to hold-up. I think our house would be pretty decent. We're detached, Frances could do with some work.
Get to a grocer, pick up tins and packets of dry food. Vitamins, bandages, antiseptics, painkillers. Need an outdoor store to get water purification tablets or a filter.

Danny_dan92 · Answer

Grab any supplies I could, regroup with my friends and family, fortify a concrete structure, collect food, ammunition, weapons and supplies.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Harsh, but I'd probably steal one of the boats docked nearby. I'm a runner and my neighbors are mostly elderly, so they'd be far easier targets to distract the hordes while I'm shocking the boat with food and weapons. Dang, I can be really dark sometimes.

Anonymous · Answer

hospital and spend most of the time in the security room and securing the hospital from the doors and windows and getting as much medical equipment and medications as possible and food from the cafeteria or whatever restaurants or cafes they have in there. security room to monitor activities outside the building. Also keeping guns in certain checkpoints around the hospital and other weapons around other checkpoints in the hospital then creating different exit strategies in case things go south or sideways and shit hits the fan

Rangers · Answer

I wouldn't care, I'd just have a good time looking for the predators that created the outbreak and expedite their one way trip to hell

Anyone else, shoot me if you want, or don't. I really don't care, I have no will to live now, and I won't have any in the apocalypse, either

genericname85 · Answer

judging by my luck, i'd be patient zero anyway.

berisky23 · Answer

Love this. Abondoned farm or something similar, countryside but still within travelling distance to a town.

Start building defences and turn a small area into a fort where you can be self sustainable and defend!

Adam1978 · Answer

The countryside, I need to be a farmer/hunter to survive. I will keep thinning the horde and eventually it will go extinct. Since zombies don't breed.

Anonymous · Answer

For something to turn people in to Zombies it would have to effect their brains in such a way that would likely kill them within a month. So you simply need to get away from people both to avoid them and avoid being infected yourself for that amount of time.

A bunker and/or wilderness is the best option.

DannyUk2017 · Answer

Stockpile, Houseboat, and lots of prep work in to where will Go next, ohhh at the No 1 Rule, never.. ever get Caught in A CORNER, or a DEAD END, otherwise, you can kiss goodbye from present life! 🤷‍♂️

WanderingLoveWizard · Answer

I would wrap some barbed wire around a baseball bat and bash people's heads in so the others do what I say

AdithyaR · Answer

As someone who's watched all the Resident Evil movies, I'm not even gonna try. I'll I'll either jump off a building or shoot myself. Not interested in getting eaten while I'm alive.

EricSummer · Answer

I got three Covid vaccinations, so I would likely be one of the zombies.

My daughter refused to get vaccinated, but she promised to try and save me if at all possible once the general zombification starts.

strateguy632 · Answer

scary i would run to any of them and let them have a meal to escape the terror.

Anonymous · Answer

Do you really want to have a fight with a feral cat over a frisbee full of piss so you can try to make a cup of what you call 'tea'?

I have absolutely no interest or intention of 'surviving' in a zombie or any other apocalypse.

PBandJ_Nerd · Answer

Well, first I'd take my snacks. Then I'd grab a pan as a weapon and head out somewhere safe away from the zombies.

jcampbell115 · Answer

I'd grab several cases of fuel and go up into the air in a blimp, they can't catch me up there!

exitseven · Answer

I have a vacation house on an island. I would go there. I would bring my guns and lots of ammo.

AviatorTom · Answer

I'd talk to my best buddy, Elon Musk, and hitch a ride on the first Starship to Mars. I know I would not survive if I stayed on Earth.

OfMiceandMen · Answer

I would head for the mountains. I can live off the land and don't need a grocery store.

Sixgunsound · Answer

Whatever I had to in order to provide for and protect my family on the way to our alt location.

vj0090 · Answer

Will carry truck of guns... and will move to mountains...

Alex8736 · Answer

We already are with people glued to their phones while walking, driving and even in conversation communicating by text with the person sitting right in front of them lol

abc3643 · Answer

Change the channel because zombie apocalypses aren't real.

Sugar100 · Answer

I would like to have an underground basement that’s big as a home where the zombies would have zero access to enter it. And hide under there.

Reorx · Answer

North where its cold & they're brittle & shatter like glass if struck. They would be immobile or very sluggish once semi/fully frozen. Alaska perhaps, plenty of game to hunt.

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

Got an end of the world couple in my friend group. I'll hit them up.

jjj101010 · Answer

Seems like finding a small island would be best, I’ve never seen swimming zombies on any zombie movies

Iron_Man · Answer

Get together with the people that are most skilled that are used to fighting the zombies and succeeding

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

Nowhere! Those zombies would only have a chance if I was passed out on the lawn again. If I happened to open my door even sober, them bitches are going to run in fear of my insane lifestyle!

acidburnone · Answer

i'd grab the swords on the wall and become a real ninja!

captain_voidwalker · Answer

Same place I'd go in the case of a nuclear apocalypse. My bunker loaded with 2 years worth of food/water and a shitload of guns and ammo

RoastedToast · Answer

Ever played left 4 dead? Wait 3 weeks after first infection then find 3 other survivors

BLP11520 · Answer

Hunker down where I live which is perfect my wife has lots stored even though we are not prepperrs

heavymetalbrotha · Answer

Take a cue from mad max start up a group and get to raiding.

KrakenAttackin · Answer

I would flex for Insta, take duck-face selfies, and bitch about patriarchy.

DiegoO · Answer

I would probably be dead or turned into a zombie. I know my chances of survival are narrow.

driven159 · Answer

I have enough fire power to take care of myself people will be coming to me for protection.

Nikki1989 · Answer

Head underground.

MementoMori777 · Answer

country side, lesa people, less zombies duh 😂

monghjay2 · Answer

not gonna happen lol at least not until the end of days

Anonymous · Answer

i'd hide at your house because the hot girls always survive

Christoff92 · Answer

Anywhere just to survive.

Anonymous · Answer

I would try to run with you on an isolated island, obviously.

sheikalana · Answer

I would buy a submarine...

LovingJo · Answer

Act like one of them, and kill them as I go? 🤔

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