Re: Thoughts

Date: 2021-02-10 05:42 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
>>Well, that varies a lot.<<

Patterns I see:

- In every community, some people are strictly local, some travel a bit, a few travel very far.

- The easier and safer travel is, the more people will do it. The more surplus stuff people have, the easier and safer travel will be.

- After an Event, or if there are few resources, most people will be local and use low-tech (feet, horses, maybe bikes). The community may pool resources, or have a local entrepreneur who has fancier stuff (the one motorized vehicle that gets used as everything from bus to ambulance to livestock-hauler...all at once.)

- Nature reclaims stuff faster than you'd think. (The primordial forest of fairy tales...grew after the Black Death hit Europe and reduced the need for farms...and the amount of people to keep the land clear.)

>>This matters immensely, because once the road goes, it becomes a great deal harder to locate places that used to be along it. <<

I went to college in a rural area, where if you missed the 'town's (crossroads wit 4 buildings) you could drive for a half hour before realizing you'd missed your turn.

I suspect that unless one is looking for something attatched to the road(s), it might eventually be easier to wayfinding the old-fashioned way: trigonometry, stars, and landmarks.

>>What you don't know, and what is critical to find out after an apocalypse, is what resources are in reach and what your neighbors are doing.<<

In reach for most stuff might be, what, a day's walk/ride. You'd likely want to know about the nearest big market (however it's been set up), and how people are getting around.

The tricky thing would be milita bands - if any of those are around, you'll want to know as far in advance as possible, and you'll want to know if they are agressive. (This would also depend on what tech they have vs what you have.)

Fortunately, most folk are fairly calm and predictable when settled into a familiar routine, and fringed by trusted relationships.
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