Urban Survival Skills

Everybody should know basic survival skills. Building a fire. Keeping warm and dry when outdoors. Finding and/or catching food. Those are the basic, bedrock survival skills that everybody needs, regardless of setting.

I’m going to assume you already know those things, and talk about what happens next. Let’s say you find yourself faced with a disaster. Maybe even a disaster of Biblical proportions. If and when that happens, in the first few days, you’ll rely heavily on the skills above, but after that? Well, after that you’re going to stop living moment to moment and start planning for a more settled future. What follows then, will be the skills you’ll need to focus on to get you to the next level, and make no mistake, your long term survival will absolutely depend on your ability to move away from the basics. One final note:

Given that most of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, we’re going to approach the subject of the survival skills you’ll need to thrive in the long run from the perspective of you in a post-emergency urban area.

Here’s your top three: 

Urban Survival Skills