URBAN AREAS

If you get the chance, then get out! Urban areas, although filled with abandoned shops full of supplies and empty buildings where you can locate your safe house, are the least attractive places to be when the zombies rise.

Urban areas have a high population of people in them at any one time. Either, working/shopping during the day or working/ partying at night. This means that should the undead begin to rise in that area then there will be a large number of zombies who may or may not migrate once the initial outbreak has subsided.

Due to this high-density population, you may also get nuked (see Nuked). What are you still reading this bit for? The explanation is under Nuked, like I just said.

Disease is the final reason to move on out. The number of dead – reanimated or not – and the associated rotten stench, will make living in urban areas almost unbearable, especially in the summer months when the tightly packed buildings and pollution residue will increase the heat and smell to levels of disgust that no person has ever endured before. All this rotting human flesh will attract insects that will spread the diseases and you will become ill and ultimately die and then rise again and start rotting and add your own aroma to that disgusting stench that will lie over the urban areas after the apocalypse has begun.

Your best bet is to set up shop in the suburbs and organise snatch and grab raids during the winter months when the smell would have subsided slightly due to the cold and rain. Ensure that you carry out reconnaissance first (maybe with your highly trained sheep – see Animals, Training of). It’s important for you to be aware of where the undead have horded and which streets aren’t blocked by debris and abandoned cars.

You will also need to get as many supplies as possible to last you through the oncoming summer. Because the cycle will repeat itself year on year and the smell will just get worse.