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View Poll Results: What size would your group be?
Large - Safety in numbers, man! 3 14.29%
Small - Don't need leeches and non-hackers slowing us down. 12 57.14%
Simple pair - You watch mine, I'll watch yours. 1 4.76%
Single - Fast, mobile, quiet, and I can't trust anyone else. 2 9.52%
A different arrangement - Perhaps a trio or some other specialized group? 3 14.29%
Voters: 21. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-05-2015, 06:13 AM
 
Location: rural south west UK
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Margin of error is thinner when you're alone.
not if you know what your doing, too many idiots out there for me to trust anyone else. trust no one and you wont be surprised when they let you down-which they will.
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Old 08-05-2015, 06:20 AM
 
Location: Milwaukee, WI
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not if you know what your doing, too many idiots out there for me to trust anyone else. trust no one and you wont be surprised when they let you down-which they will.
Even if you know what you're doing, you can get sick, or injured. It's obvious.
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Old 08-05-2015, 06:27 AM
 
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Even if you know what you're doing, you can get sick, or injured. It's obvious.
so take more care of what you are doing, sickness is usually due to hygiene-either personal or food preparation, and injury is usually because your being careless and taking risks.
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Old 08-05-2015, 08:10 AM
 
Location: Milwaukee, WI
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so take more care of what you are doing, sickness is usually due to hygiene-either personal or food preparation, and injury is usually because your being careless and taking risks.
I did not say it's impossible, I said it's riskier to be alone, than to be in a group of two. And I would say a group of 4 is probably the best compromise between big and small.

Excluding, as usual, women and children.
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Old 08-05-2015, 09:38 AM
 
Location: rural south west UK
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depends what one is used to, I am used to being on my own for long periods, days-months-years makes no difference to me, I like being alone, cant stand other people, I don't trust other people, more so after SHTF, when the madness starts that's the time to remove myself from the maelstrom. I know of some people that just cant function without an audience.
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Old 08-05-2015, 11:40 AM
 
Location: somewhere in the woods
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it depends on what a person would consider a small, medium or large group to be.
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Old 08-06-2015, 12:41 AM
 
Location: rural south west UK
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any group in Britain is most likely to be a "family unit" whether just immediate family or an extended one. very few will include outsiders.

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Old 08-06-2015, 02:04 AM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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any group in Britain is most likely to be a "family unit" whether just immediate family or an extended one. very few will include outsiders.
I would judge each family member as well. It's a rare family that doesn't have some garbage in it.
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Old 08-06-2015, 02:33 AM
 
Location: rural south west UK
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that is true. take my SIL for instance, she thinks in an emergency she will share with the neighbours, they will "share" all right, until she has nothing left.
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Old 08-06-2015, 08:08 AM
 
Location: Milwaukee, WI
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Why does everybody think there would be only strong men and women around them? If SHTF happens, wouldn't you need to take care of children, or older people? How big of a group (of adults in good health and ability) you want to have around you, if you know that there will be children to take care too?
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