I’m not hiding. I’ll be gleefully running around town mowing wave after wave of zombies down like fields of shambling wheat. Feel free to join me. 
I’m building a zombie shelter. I’ll hide there, provided I can complete it before Zom-bocolypse.
Nearest Military base. We have guns and food there. Even here in the remote area I’m in currently. Its on a hill so it really can’t be approached without being observed, and there are cameras covering any blindspots.
Assuming of course the zombies haven’t overrun the base…
I think a mall would be a bad place to hide out, too many entrances, too much glass.
In Dawn of the Dead a man and his daughter hid out high up in a tall apartment building. They could easily block the stairwells and fight off zombies as they tried to climb up. You could capture rainwater on the roof, and long-term you could even garden on the roof if you could get the supplies.
That’s probably what I would do. Of course we have no tall apartment buildings around here, so I guess I’d just hang out on the front porch with my guns.
Duh, thinking one thing, typing another. I meant 28 Days Later.
Well, after I run to the nearest sporting goods store to stock up on munitions and the “nice” Kroger for food, cigarettes, and wine/booze, I’m headed back home. I live in an apartment above a garage accessible via stairs around the back. Take out the stairs, sit on the porch like a bumpkin, shoot anything that comes close, and enjoy some nice looted liquor.
I also have a spastic Jack Russell to act as an early warning system.
The problem with zombies isn’t the zombies, it’s the people with you who weren’t turned into zombies. They’ll get all angsty and stupid and go get themselves killed, then come back from the dead and know how to get into your secret hideout!
If you can avoid that problem, there are any number of places you can live during a zombie invasion. My own apartment would be acceptable. I’d like to remove the fire escape staircase from the back, as well as chopping down a couple of trees that are too close to the house. I’d have to barricade my front stairwell door (dropping a sofa bed down there would be effective enough in the short term) and pitch a tent on the roof with a rope ladder as an escape hatch.
Oh wait, I’d have to do something about my front balcony which connects to my neighbours. I suppose I’d have to cut it down somehow – this would help barricade my front door.
[sub]I do like how in all the Romero movies it’s somehow too cold in Canada for zombies… Because it snows here in summer, eh?
My Post-apocalyptic Bunker of Love.
I too am guilty of giving this way too much thought. I did think that Wallmart or the local FleetFarm would be the way to go, but there would be too many crazies there that weren’t zombies or might be already infected and turning into zombies.
Since I am a pilot, my first course of action would be to steal a plane from an airport if I could get to it. Then I would fly north. I’m already in WI so it wouldn’t take long to get to a area that is non-zombie friendly. I figure that if I get far enough north, the zombies would all freeze outside. That might not kill them, but it sure would slow them down.
Then I’d just stay away from populated areas until the zombie situation was cleared up or til I became one.
Arrr, mateys!
If it be Zombie Season, tis time to hoist anchor, & put to sea!
Load a sailboat with tools, food, medicine & weapons, & sail to an island.
True, they dead 'uns can walk across the bottom, but the swarms o little fishes will take a mighty toll.
Gather fish from the water, plants from the island, & keep yer head, me hearties! Arrr!
I like the plane part but I think I’d head for the midwest or a tropical island with fruit trees and seafood.
My mother’s house.
My parents live (in the summer) on a small island in Alaska. No roads on or off. Closest road on the mainland is a good 50 or 60 miles inland across some seriously inhospitable terrain. Growing season is decent enough to produce crops - and even if the Zombie Apocalypse hits in the fall, it’s a Pacific island. You could live on the produce of the sea for quite long enough to get a crop in. You’d be damn tired of fish, but it could be done.
I’m assuming the zombies aren’t good at operating boats or airplanes. If they can’t manage to drive motor vehicles, you’d be safe as hell. A little isolated, and it would be tricky to figure out when the zombie apocalypse was over, but safe.
With only plane and boat access, it would be a simple matter to monitor incoming traffic and ensure/quarantine it to make sure there weren’t any zombies coming ashore.
Zombies generally lack the planning and reasoning capability to logic out that there must be people present on the island - and the currents around the island are generally reasonably swift - and the water is cold, deep, and populated by a vast variety of marine life exceptionally willing to eat any dead meat that gets near it. Not to mention that the town on the island is pretty localized to a small corner - and the island is fairly large. Tricky to find the town if you don’t know where you’re looking even with good planning and reasoning capability.
No large cities within 200 miles. All other communities similarly situated on islands within the 200 miles. Plenty of wildlife for killing and eating if necessary (or you get really sick of fish). Berries aplenty (including wild cranberries - which are a hot source of necessary vitamins such as C and A - and an effective tool in combating various issues regarding poor water quality). Lots of weaponry and associated ammunition around. Most of the population skilled in its use.
Electricity is hydro - from a large, even more isolated, plant which is largely unmanned and computer-controlled. There are enormous back-up generators with either wood or oil running capability. Even in the lack of hydro electricity, there’s a lot of oil and gas stockpiled - for various reasons. Most of the houses are either heated with wood or capable of being heated with wood (functional fireplaces are standard), and the island is smack in the middle of the largest national forest in the US. Plenty of fuel. The majority of the population is well-versed in survival skills. A much higher-than-usual percentage of the population are actually full-on back-to-nature nuts and possessed of skills like spinning and weaving raw wool, tanning leather, fishtrapping, food preservation, etc.
Everyone knows everyone else, on sight. Makes it difficult for even non-zombified strangers to appear without comment - the zombies (should any make it that far) would be blatantly obvious, and shortly thereafter, destroyed.
Two large and fully stocked grocery stores - ditto hardware stores - ditto pharmacy. Since the supply barges aren’t always consistent, the stores keep more surplus on hand than is customary in the continental US. There’d be enough non-perishables around to see the population through at least one winter - with seed stock around for spring plantings.
The only trouble would be getting there in the case of a Zombie Apocalypse - which I think I could manage, eventually.
Why, no, I haven’t put any thought into this at all!
You know, I’m really disturbed that I understood your entire post and I don’t even play Everquest.
An old stone school.
Most of those older babies had nice heavy metal doors that were easy to secure from the inside with chains. Sure, there were windows, but the older ones windows were all higher up and the basement ones locked down with metal protection cages. If it had a cafeteria, then it could cook/refrigerate food in quantity. Some of the older ones had center court-yards where food could be grown as well along with civil defense bomb shelters in the basement.
Yes, you’d have to hijack a tractor trailer full of food and unload it quickly inside before assuming the ‘bunker mentality’ but its safe, roomy, has books/manuals to read, along with high ground to see whats going on in the immediate area.
Plus, the zombies will all have bad memories of going there and want to stay away.
Somewhere with as few other people as possible and certainly not anywhere thought to be safe or secure or protected.
From having watched a number of films and considered the subject I’ve come to the conclusion that in a Zombie situation other people are likely to be the biggest threat. Incompetence and complete and utter fucking stupidity of the fellow ‘survivors’ would be the biggest worry. I don’t care if they are an elite special forces unit, ex military, police, my best friend, sharpshooting ninja pirates, colonial marines with a guide called Ripley or whatever I’d hide out by myself.
I’d definitely not want a dog, cat or other pet. They will get infected and bite.
If I had access to a firearm which is unlikely in UK I’d concentrate on saving ammo for use against fellow ‘survivors’ rather than on targetting Zombies.
In the most recent Romero effort (not the remake) the zombies eventually did figure out that
they could cross water (just like in POTC when Barbossa’s crew walks along the ocean bottom),
so I wouldn’t necessarily count on that protecting you.
How about some Buddhist monastery high up in the mountains somewhere? [Tibet] I do
agree that cold would (should) make them very torpid.
The heat produced by bacterial decomposition would keep them above freezing, so no.
An oasis in the Sahara Desert? The heat would dry them to leather & jerky, making most too stiff to move. And, of course, the vultures, hyeanas & jackals.
Oh yes.
And the flies…
A simple cabin in the middle of a northern forest. A big forest. I’d want to have to travel for hours before I got to the nearest post office. Low local population density means low local zombie population. Brooks-type zombies freeze in winter, so I’d be safe for a few months out of the year.
I’d put traps in the surrounding forests. Nothing fancy. A few snares and pits, but mostly just entangling barbed wired. Forest game and forage could supplement my supplies.
Either that, or a prison, provided it wasn’t already swarming with the dead. Secure outer perimeter with watchtowers. Individual cell blocks can be quarantined if they zombies get in. Has its own generators, infirmary, and kitchen.
Going by the line of zombie lore that says they feed on brains, I’d go to my Congressfool’s house. They’d never think of finding any brains there.
Won’t work. The zombies will just bite the aquatic creatures while they’re wilking, and then you’ll have to contend with ZOMBIE SHARKS! With frikkin’ laser beams…
Nope. I’d head straight for Washington, DC. Everybody knows what zombies feed on, so that would be the one place the zombies would never think of looking for food!