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Only if they find me.

If I'm too old to defend my food, either all the raiders have starved, or they've started farming.

A nice food forest would probably be the best option. Camouflaged to most laypeople who can't identify plants. Only collectable some parts of the year. Attracts wildlife.

People in large cities have different problem sets than people in remote areas. I don't lock my doors, either. People don't wander by. I'm bordered by bluffs and wilderness.

Food stores can be buried etc. I have buried things on my property in the past for a couple of years, came out unchanged.

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In a situation like that, it's a question of when, not if, someone will find you.

They'll find me, but they wouldn't if I were a billionaire.

Also I just think you haven't thought through many of the problems you presented, most are easily solved.

24h guard? No, I'll make good use of zoneminder, moron detection, loud alarms, and a lot of cameras.

I mean I already have that and I'm not wealthy, for an American.

It's not hard to hide a place underground or in a remote wilderness when you have a lot of money.

Or just somewhere easily defensible, with one path up, that requires heavy equipment to alter.

There's a good chance that someone will just go over your alarms and shoot you. They just advertised that there's stuff worth stealing inside.

My alarms are to wake me up so I can sleep sometimes. Hopefully they alert me without alerting the raiders. I would be intending to shoot them, not the other way around.

As a billionaire, I believe I would have built some fortified positions to fire from without much chance of being hit myself.

Also I doubt I'll have any kind of obvious entrance to wherever I am.

Even on my own real-life property (I'm not a billionaire), I'm not just going to be like...in the living room. In an end-of-the-world scenario, I'll be camping discreetly somewhere on my own property, which is mostly a hardwood forest with a pretty dense understory. It wouldn't be any more inviting than hundreds of thousands of similar acres, so security through obscurity is pretty good.

I'll have access to all the tools I need, a house, my own water source. I'm not particularly likely to survive on my own permanently, but I think I've got a shot to wait out a storm for a year or two.

Ever play the later Far Cry games?

I haven't played any of them, no.

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