Social Breakdown or Terrorism Threat – Why Living Abroad Could be Your Only Escape

As you quietly go about your everyday life and sometimes perhaps feel a slight sense of boredom or repetitiveness in the routine you adhere to in order to have a secured standard of living, do you ever wonder about the society you live in and whether it’s as stable as you like to think it is?

Knife crime, gun attacks, social unrest, rising unemployment levels, increased numbers of home repossessions and enforced ethnic diversity in our communities are all undertones creating the potential for unrest that could escalate, engulf your neighborhood and involve you and your average everyday world…

At night as you watch the daily news unfolding on your TV screen and learn about terrorist threats at home, and wars in which your government is involved abroad, do you ever contemplate how this heightened level of international threat could affect your own life? After all, how exactly did the greatest terrorist atrocity on US soil in 2001 result in American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan in 2010? Our connection to the world’s wars and all that is evil is much closer than you may have first thought…

As much as we like to perhaps kid ourselves that ours is an ‘average Joe’s’ life – it’s comfortable, safe, secured and assured - maybe just maybe there’s something eating away at our conscience, telling us not to be quite so naïve about the state of the world we live in. After all, the likes of the US and the UK invented globalisation and have so far embraced it to the point at which a bomb blast in a far off country can have direct implications for our own safety as we travel to work in our own hometown…

There are people within your community right now who are certain that social breakdown, terrorist threats and even a new world war are inevitable. These are the people who take a global view of the world and are perhaps those we should be listening to and learning from. If the world continues on its reckless path of ‘anything goes as long as we have oil’ – why should you, your family or your community be safe?

The only countries in the world where there will perhaps be safety for citizens will be those which maintain a neutral stance on political and emotive issues – those that keep their own affairs in order whilst keeping their noses out of other nations’ issues. Countries to consider for their neutral stance are New Zealand, Switzerland, Costa Rica and even Argentina.

If you’re concerned about the deteriorating state of the world we live in, and you want to protect your future and that of your family, don’t leave it too late to leave – becoming an expatriate could be your only escape from what many are predicting will be an inevitable international breakdown on an as yet unseen, unimaginable scale.

Alternatively, you can remain – either in denial or with survival uppermost in your mind. If you prefer to deny that the world we live in is perhaps rotten to its very core in many key fundamental ways, I hope you’re right! However, personally I know I cannot ignore all that goes on around me and throughout the wider world and pretend that it doesn’t involve me, that it doesn’t matter…which is why I believe we all need to think about the reality of an altered world.

You might like to begin thinking about how you and your family will cope as natural resources run out – for example, how will you cope in life if you no longer have regular electricity? Blackouts in major urban areas in the US are already a reality – albeit a very infrequent one – but this could become the norm for all of us if our nation came under attack, or if supplies of fuel ran out.

If this is too much for you to consider, think instead about the sustainable nature of your current lifestyle – and instead of popping to the grocery store every time you run out of some essential foodstuff, what about growing your own, making and baking more of your family’s requirements? Some people are already stockpiling water and less perishable foodstuffs ahead of potential catastrophe…others are just beginning to contemplate how a significant change could impact their lives.

Whichever stage you’re at in terms of your thinking, don’t be naïve, don’t leave it too late, think about your options and act in the best interests of you, your family and your community.

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