Being capable of reading the streets - and reading other people, too - goes along that as a way to better orient oneself and also deal with known and
unknown environments, identify threats, and avoid potentially risky situations.
How do you detect danger in your environment? Are you often in urban settings? If not, have you seen
changes to your small town as the economy worsens? What signs of decline have been evident? Do you have tips to add?
Prepping costs money. Everyone knows that, even the most staunch I'll-Never-Be-A-Doomsday-Prepper-Why-Don't-You-Live-A-Little co-worker you might have.
So, in this economy, under these conditions, how are you supposed to get prepared for the Next Big Catastrophe? Is it even possible?