can't make up my mind btw FL and TX
there seems to be another one, but can't think of it.. Of course, economics is not the only reason to live somewhere... so there would be other states on my list... I'd just have to sit down and write up a pro and con list and etc... but these are the 2 states I like best...
Florida is the poorest choice of them all, tactically speaking, as its entire landmass is a peninsula, which means water on three sides limits the directions one can flee government tyranny. Trust us, you don't want to get caught out on the high seas or the Gulf by modern armed vessels or aircraft. Sure, you could flee deep into the Everglades, but who wants to camp out indefinitely with pythons and other biting critters?
Texas is a classical Trojan Horse. On one hand a fair percentage of Texans still mean what they say when they profess to embody a certain high grit all American spirit. However, radical woke leftism has been infiltrating deep for years into Texas government and even the most conservative elected Texan official is going to choose gold over the lives or freedoms of his/her constituents when push comes to shove. Also, for me at least, not enough snow falls down there.
My wife and I were looking very hard at Maine. Gun laws up there are mostly great. However, there's no Castle Doctrine, which sucks, and vehicle taxes/registration is silly out of this world expensive. Maine is still a possibility for us, if we could find the right large, secluded property over 100 acres.
Alaska is both the Mt. Everest of SHTF states and the Pompei of surviving what could be coming in the near future. On one hand Alaska is vast, remote, thin on the law enforcement side and chock full of game and fish to harvest in a crisis. On the other, the Alaskan level of remoteness could work against the average survivalist, and one is sort of trapped up there, with Russia to the west, the Arctic wastes to the north and east, and fascist Canada to the south, south-east. Additionally, one can hardly order survival goodies and expect them to arrive in this lifetime up there because Canada forbids overland shipping of so many "fun" items.
At the moment,
Pennsylvania—the Pa mountains—are our huckleberry.