scrubbedexpat141

OOOOOH GOOD ONE.

I'd play football at St Mary's and then Wembley. I'd kick a goal at Twickers. I'd blow up Wimbledon for ruining every summer since tennis began. I'd race a powerboat up the Thames like James Bond. I'd see how fast the London Eye can spin. I'd burn all of Portsmouth to the floor.

Meow

This assumes you are in the UK at the time the rest of humankind disappears otherwise that's a looooong journey from here.

scrubbedexpat141

I refer the honorable lady to my previous theft of a superyacht or ferrari or cruise liner or fast learning to fly jumbo jets.

I reckon without border controls, without traffic and without hassle.... the c7,000km journey would only take two weeks, tops. That's at a fair but conservative 500km a day only....

Meow

Yachts maybe, but if you think the plane is a good idea you obviously aren't up to date on the series.

I've been mulling it over and I think Southern France or Northern Spain would be good places to live post-apocalypse.

scrubbedexpat141

I'm just starting season 3.

Southern France would be nice. Somewhere arable, with pleasant weather and an abundance of wine. What could be bad?

Miss Ann Thrope

Or indeed pre-apocalypse; though I guess not so much any more for those of you with non-EU passports...

DaveLovesDee

The Isle of Man would be better. Defensible, and with a source of fish around it. Or maybe Jersey/Guernsey.

Bahtatboy

Weather, man, weather. Sat inside on a rainy Sunday afternoon is bad enough, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday AND Saturday afternoons would be a killer. Sicily, maybe -- although I'm not sure an island's so good: what do you want to defend it from? Provided there's no marauding large vertebrates you'd be fine. By the coast, yes. So maybe southern Italy or Spain - plentiful veg, excellent wine (maybe Italy, then), and temperate.

Meow

In Winter? Are you quite mad?

You want a temperate climate with little need for heating or cooling and the ability to grow fruit and veg year round, as well as a good supply of fresh water.

The scenario of the series is that everything has died, including animals and fish.

weasel decentral

After a few years daily practice you could smash the TT lap record or alternatively smash yourself doing it.

Bahtatboy

Once nuclear power plants cease to be manned they'll be a huge risk, so as far away as possible. That rules out Europe, US, India, Japan/Korea, SE China, South Africa. Extreme weather rules out Canada, Greenland, central Africa, Russia, Central China, so basically that leaves the following with moderate weather:

Oz/NZ/Papua NG/Indonesia, Chile/Peru/Ecuador, Southern Morocco - Sierra Leone

Oz is a bit wildlife scary, PNG there-might-be-some-headshrinkers-left scary, S America unknown to me -- so maybe I'd move a bit further down the coast, and stay on the coast for the fish and more temperate weather. Never imagined I'd chose Africa...

Millhouse

without the locals around nicking everything, East Africa would be a very good bet. Fertile, water, enough cars with petrol in lying around to get you going. Not too many crazy wildlife... probably enough generators, solar/panels etc to power the kettle and listen to the silent radio. all will be fine.

Bahtatboy

Biggest solar power plant in the world, reckon I could keep that going -- but would I really need electricity? Probably could survive with a portable solar charger just to keep my laptop going.

Prevailing wind is from the Atlantic or Sahara, so relatively pollution-free. Fertile. Monthly trips to Marrakech to stock up on goodies.

Roads are generally a bit shit, though, but there's got to be a trade-off somehow.

Quite warming to it -- ok, bring it on.

Millhouse

why do you need the laptop? to look at websites frozen in time?

you just need a travel kettle, and a toaster. not that you'll have any bread to toast.

Meow

He (we) could make bread.

It'd be like The Good Life but without the pigs and chickens.