Checky replied ( to me ):
Long-Term: People are moving to the city, leaving the farm.
I suggest you do the same, stay in the city.

**** no! The last place you want to be when SHTF, is in a city.
[ people are ] moving to small farms to sustain themselves,
not to make a business out of it.

According to you, Greg has done the right thing then.
According to me, he's exiled himself; it's self-imprisonment.

In the city, you can rent a micro-apartment and order Uber eats.

I could say gold is going to the moon, and I'd be right;
-- it's the WHEN part that's usually wrong.

Since the end of 2015, the Yen has been tracking gold.
as will the dollar, eventually, if all all goes right;
complete with negative interest rates.

I sort through all the crap and try to make sense out of it.

We've a limited number of crappy choices.
You can't blame the guy who "chooses" to jump out the window
when the house is on fire.

Likewise, governments are forced to make crappy "choices";
e.g. enabling drugs and thieving junkies.

Governments subsidize devil-may-care deadbeats/junkies
and penalize penny-pinching capitalists, creating bubbles.

If they can get to it, they can take it.
You could wake up one day and find your account has been frozen.

Hence: I only invest in myself; I don't trust anyone.

Long-Term: People are living alone now, ditching friends+family.

I'm happier living alone than I ever was living with others.

Amen. Trying to change others is a losing game; it'll drive you mad.