I'll live content with the fact I live near a clinic which can cure poison easier than mauling, and the fact I live in a country that has massive amounts of raw resources and uranium

that brings up nuclear war. australia as ive heard is a strategic point, and not an ideal place to be if thermal nuclear war were to be declared.

I'd say Australia is safer from a nuclear strike, as we don't have much of a military presence I'd say occupation would be preferrable for invaders rather than bombing us to heck so we'd be one step safer than the States.

In the event of a zombie apocalypse: PARTY AT MY HOUSE!

Ah, but scientists, on the whole, are an idealistic bunch and therefore more likely to be gullible :shift:.

The effect rabbits and foxes have had on bilbies has got to be worth a couple of jellyfish and a few of arachnids, too .

And there's plenty more we could dig up .

Yeah, it's a lot easier to run a mine if you don't have to issue CBRN kit to everyone .

Glasgow because if you can survive here, you can survive a nuclear holocaust.

Your basemant. Get all the nonperishable food stuffs,.weapons and ammo you can store and live in your basemant.

Syria.

I laughed...I am a bad, bad man

In a major city maybe, but even then, to be scared to go outside is a bit silly. Maybe at 2am in the morning around a rough area, that's understandable. But places that are rural, like little villages in the countryside, I can't name any specifically, have very low crime rates, whether it's reported or not.

Wait, didn't your basemant flood a couple of times back during a major storm system in 2011?

I think I'll stick to my little island out here in the sea. Iceland also has no army which makes other countries less scared of it thus in turn making it safer. The earthquakes and volcanic eruptions aren't so bad either, at least not if you live in the city. And the largest mammal predator you will find here (aside from humans) is foxes (no we don't have polar bears, only occasional stray ones from Greenland) and none of the insect here that I know of have any real venom to speak of. So basically there is nearly no danger from the animals here, at worst there is danger from animals in sheep trying to run across roads with cars driving past at speeds where they can't avoid a hit.

Actually, that doesn't make you safer. It means that if anyone feels like invading you there is nothing to stop them (outside of intervention from other nations). Of course, Iceland isn't exactly top dollar real estate.

That was exactly my thought. Having no armed resistance in your country just makes you a push over for any invading force. Does Iceland have weapons at all? Maybe their 'army' is the civilians, they'll have you all fighting when the time comes

Which is easier, running away from somone tryinng to crush your windpipe or fighting them if need be.
Or
Dodging and outrunning bullets, assuming the first shot dosent catch you off gaurd and kill you.

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As someone who lives in a quaint rural English village I'll have to disagree, we've been robbed a few times (although the perpetrators were city kids who'd driven down to rob the bigger houses, mostly defenceless old people around here...).

I think Iceland is a NATO member, which means if they were to be invaded all the other NATO countries would come to their help. Sounds safe enough to me.

Indeed, and it doesn't have any army of its own so it poses no threat to other countries really. No one is going to think "oh darn, Iceland has a growing army and a political agenda? Better invade and stop them before it's too late" or "Iceland is making nuclear weaponry? We should invade them to make sure they won't have any." Really I think a lot of violence could be skipped if people didn't make themselves a threat in the first place.

And in case of some nutcase invading for profits there is NATO, granted I'm not even really that fond of NATO itself. Not everyone shares my sentiments though of course.

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It's silly to think anyone would actually invade Iceland. Just ain't nothing there. The days of conquering for land are over. If a war starts these days it's to topple governments and liberate minorities, which Iceland does not have (edit: the minorities that is).

Energy? It has Geothermal power sources I think. Although whether that would be worth invading for I don't know.

I'd stay where I am.

Definitely wouldn't go to an island. Any island. If sea levels rise, it would be underwater.

Wouldn't flee to the coast either. Tsunamis.


Hey, they have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulduf%C3%B3lk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorah,_Iowa Small, sleepy, homogeneous (most residents are of Norwegian descent), far from any large city, nice little liberal arts college (Luther). I've been there - is the epitome of a small, friendly Midwest town. If I were to hide from the big, bad world that's where I'd go.

Still the last place you'd want to invade in this world. If and when the energy crisis hits up some fifty years from now, Iceland will be the last place nuked. Rather, it's integrated into EU (my theory) and thus granted immunity for all hostile action for as long as humanity exists in its current form..

Speaking of which if EU ever unites into a "Untied States of Europe", which I dearly wish for, living in the EU would be the best way to spend the coming crisis when we run out of food, space and resources 50-100 years from now.