[Black Blade]

Originally Posted by 4thIDvet

Most places I have visited, meat is a luxury, not a staple..
Not speaking of the city folk now..
Electricity nah, well some if their lucky.
If they read Black Blades survival forum, they would say..
"What are they talking about, does not everyone live like that. What are these survivalists?"
Yes yes they go too the the markets and pick up kilo's of rice.
Usually have 6 months supply on hand..
All in the countryside have a garden in their back yard..
Lost my damn picts. of Cambodia.. My Bro has them, I will get them back..
Water.. Use the stream..
Very clean healthy people..
One heavy gauge electric wire "on the ground" be careful kids.
Went too 8 village houses.. One light for each home.
Power loss, who cares, light the candle..
Cooking was woks, very small fuel consumption..
All owned chickens, a few village hogs..
Are they happy, hell yes..
Very very family and community oriented..
Hunt with crossbows.. Legal there..
So who will suffer the most, with a world wide meltdown?
They do not have to study survival-ism, they are natural survivalists and they would not know what we were talking about..

Yep, same as life in northern Myanmar. No electricity to speak of (maybe a light bulb), and dinner is whatever you can catch and throw in the pot. There people are stocked up with rice and often have chickens and even a pig under the house.



Village supermarket at the crack of dawn:



Myanmar Taxi:



We are definitely spoiled here in the US. I doubt most here could make it without their remote control to watch Dancing With The Stars and American Idol. Somehow, I actually loved it in Myanmar without all the conveniences of modern life in spite of the occasional wild elephant charge, spitting cobra (or any of the other 74 species of deadly snakes), asian tiger, sun bear, wild water buffalo, boar or whatever. Then the leeches! Bouts of Dengue Fever and Malaria. Otherwise - I really had lots of fun. WTSHTF here in the US most will be at a complete loss as they hope and await "help" from the government.