Not the worst idea ever, however, we all know that eventually blue state chaos will spill over into red state sanctuaries, which aren't even really sanctuaries anymore; remember COVID lockdowns, mask orders and the like? Many a red state betrayed their citizens with COVID tyranny in exchange for those federal emergency dollars.
There is no lasting red refuge left in America. I know. I did my homework. A couple of years ago my wife and I were looking for our next home. I was fresh out of the US Army after more than twenty-eight years and her corporate job had put her on essentially permanent work from home status due to COVID. All of that meant we could pretty much move anywhere we chose. So I spent nearly a full year researching the reddest states; states with the most lax gun and self-defense laws, states with deep forested areas just outside of decent sized towns and states where living off the grid was both less expensive and feasible.
We closely considered, after narrowing things down quite a bit, Maine, Alaska, West Virginia and Montana. Maine was almost a dead certain choice, what with abundant one hundred acre tracts of land, remote locations and decent self-defense laws. Our problem with Maine ended up coming down to two dealbreakers: lack of a real castle doctrine style law and excessive vehicle registration fees. Similarly, Alaska was "it" for a while. We found an old fly-in fishing camp for sale, totally off grid, located over ninety miles from a surface road. One couldn't get more isolated than that in this modern hell-world of ours. But then we discovered the giant red flag known as Canada, that budding commie nation to the north who forces Alaskans to have quite a number of survival items shipped by sea because they've banned such things from their people. Pretty much what I'm getting at is nowhere and no state is completely safe from the rising tide of American Marxism.
We ended up settling on a large mountain property in the Pennsylvania Poconos. Not exactly the reddest or most conservative friendly state out there, for sure, but mountain living is quite a different story than living closer to the larger towns and cities. We're happy for now. One day? Who knows? Maybe we'll make Alaska our home after all . . . if civilization holds together long enough to pull off another big move. Until then I think we'll be better than fine.
