The most zombie-apocolypse proof city/country you know.

[Radoh]

If Pandemic is anything to go by, I'd say Madagascar. Curse you and your one port!

 

[Flauros]

Well, as they say the devil is in the details. The cause of the zombies, and their exact capabilities means a lot. If your dealing with the Romero shamblers, then there are plenty of ways of dealing with that scenario fairly effectively, isolation helps. If your dealing with a more supernatural variety of zombie, which is less popular in the cinema, those that say need to be hacked to pieces and then presumably burned (ie totally destroyed) and so on, the situation changes considerably.

See, depending on how durable the Zombies are, and the exact cause of the spread, isolation might just buy you some time. Sure those who head to the hills and hide out in cabins will avoid the initial fighting and slaughter, but only until the people there are gone. If the zombies are hunting people down as the result of some curse, or "life sense" or whatever, it just means that when the time comes those people in isolated regions are going to be run down last and ultimatly wind up with little or no recourse.

Likewise, most arguements about guns in places like the US, Finland, or wherever else, might not matter if the Zombies aren't going to be stopped by headshots and bullets won't do more except annoy them.

As far as Finland goes, Simo Haya is a national hero, and I understand that Finland is quite proud of it's victories, though as many people have pointed out here it's a lot less impressive when you go beyond the numbers and actually look at the details of who was fighting who. It's been a big discussion here in the past and I'm not going to go through it as I'm hardly the biggest expert on that area of military history. That said, I do acknowlege Finland might do pretty well, though given that it has it's own large, modern cities I don't think it's going to do all THAT well overall, as the same arguements about rural areas (only 4 other people in the area!) can be made about a lot of places.

As far as survival skills goes, truthfully I think the ones who would fare best hiding in the wilderness would be temperate swamp dwellers, your seminoles, cajuns, and other swamp folk down around the Everglades or in Lousiana and so on. The reason being that even really durable zombies are going to have trouble with the wildlife even if they otherwise don't rot. The poison insects and snakes and such aren't a problem, but gators and animals like that will eat just about anything. I think that would make such areas among the most resiliant.

Funny, the place i was going to compare to was an arctic version of our Everglades Swamp.

The cities, like i said, would fall. But man, this guy out here said " i want a barbeque and sauna house" so he just built one. Just fucking built it and i went in there. I bet these people can fortress like a ************....

 

[Tsaba]

Unless you have some kind of Wallish contraption to block zombies off.

it's fricken a 120 feet in the air, what kind of wallish contraption can you build when your on freaken stilts.

 

[Biosophilogical]

If Pandemic is anything to go by, I'd say Madagascar. Curse you and your one port!

Wasn't Australia the second most annoying country to infect? Or am I remembering wrong? You know who I envy? People who start in madagascar, as long as you infect one foreigner before they close ports you should be fine.

OT: I think Australia would pose a problem, seeing as we are an island country, so stopping zombies from our borders isn't too much of a problem given that we are surrounded by ocean. And even if a refugee or someone brought over a soon-to-be zombie, Australia is a big place, and our population is spread all around the edge of the continent, so it isn't like a single zombie will be able to build up a horde-momentum very easily. Then there are the wildlife (I wonder if paralytic venom works on zombies) such as spiders, snakes, kangaroos, wombats (don't f*** with wombats), crocodiles. Then there is the environment, with dry-as-dust bushland, a big whopping desert in the middle, various land-splitting rivers.

Oh, I almost forgot ... sharks. I assume that zombies would get some blood in the water, meaning at least some of them would be fish-food ... then again, zombie sharks.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Anywhere besides big cities in the US. Everyone has guns so it wont be hard to blast everything that gets near.

 

[paintman]

The principality of sealand.

Google it. It's great.

 

[maturin]

Matinicus Island, Maine. They could live on seafood, and unlike most fishing communities, would probably have no problem reverting to sail once the diesel ran out.

 

[halomech15]

Diego Garcia. In the middle of nowhere, and home to a major US military base. Plus, if by some miracle it does get infected, there are a ton of ships and bombers to steal and fly somewhere else. Perfect.

 

[Shakomaru]

If Pandemic is anything to go by, I'd say Madagascar. Curse you and your one port!

Wasn't Australia the second most annoying country to infect? Or am I remembering wrong? You know who I envy? People who start in madagascar, as long as you infect one foreigner before they close ports you should be fine.

OT: I think Australia would pose a problem, seeing as we are an island country, so stopping zombies from our borders isn't too much of a problem given that we are surrounded by ocean. And even if a refugee or someone brought over a soon-to-be zombie, Australia is a big place, and our population is spread all around the edge of the continent, so it isn't like a single zombie will be able to build up a horde-momentum very easily. Then there are the wildlife (I wonder if paralytic venom works on zombies) such as spiders, snakes, kangaroos, wombats (don't f*** with wombats), crocodiles. Then there is the environment, with dry-as-dust bushland, a big whopping desert in the middle, various land-splitting rivers.

Oh, I almost forgot ... sharks. I assume that zombies would get some blood in the water, meaning at least some of them would be fish-food ... then again, zombie sharks.

Oh god. Zombie sharks. if that happens, NO ONE WILL BE SAFE! except for yknow, those people who will be safe. I say the desert. The zombies wouldnt be able to survive the heat, and the temperature change at night wouldnt make a difference if they have to get over sand dunes. so im off to the sahara desert. BAI!

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Everglades. Though that does bring up the potential problem of zombie alligators, if this particular zombism is cross-species compatible. It's hard for a person with all their motor control to navigate the swamps, let alone a shuffling corpse. If you know how to live there, you can live there indefinitely.

 

[remulean]

iceland. plenty of possible mountain strongholds. out in the middle of nowhere anyway, and relatively self sustainable. plus, winter.

 

[Ice Car]

I live in Hawaii, which is just a small island that is rather densely populated for it's size... If everyone turned to zombies I'd be fucked.

 

[remulean]

iceland. plenty of possible mountain strongholds. out in the middle of nowhere anyway, and relatively self sustainable. plus, winter.

 

[Sam Doctorman]

1)salt lake city
2)vatican city
3) the city around Chernobyl

 

[Dark42]

I got to say the Vatican; it's already walled in, fortified, with round the clock security.

 

[honestdiscussioner]

Madagascar, assuming the close down the port in time.

Bonus points for anyone who gets the reference.

 

[the_honey_badger]

I'd stick with an organised government. Find a refugee camp. Hopefully they will be able to keep the zombies back long enough for a cure to be found, or for the majority to starve to death. If you're part of a large landmass, then the population of zombies you're fighting off is significantly greater.

Best bet? Staying right here in England, with a cup of tea and waiting for our boys to get the cane out and give them zombies what for!

 

[vxicepickxv]

I'm going to go with Mongolia as a good choice. The average number of people per square mile is around 4, but it's survivable there.

 

[Beertaster]

Well I'm from Kansas which is about as flat as a pancake, literally miles of view in all directions. I'd go West to the Rockys then either North or South to Canada and above or to the desert in like Arizona. extreme temperature differences are key. Oh and if the infection is like the flu then everyone will die in like a week regardless, so its better to have an air proof house and something to recycle the air.

 

[OpiateChicken]

I'm in Vancouver, and, uh, my city would definitely NOT hold up during a zombie apocalypse, as we all kind of found out on Wednesday. That was just a prequel to a long and violent undead siege, and my city didn't do very well, considering a lot of people in my generation's age group seem to display zombie-like qualities even when still human. (I mean, it sucks that we lost, but come the fuck on.)

That being said, I think anywhere on the North American prairies could hold up very well against zombies. Flat land where you could build a tall tower and take out zombies from long distances, see them coming for miles. In an emergency, you could also drive over the flat grassy lands quite easily should roads become undriveable.

I saw some pictures of a zombie-proof house once that someone built. It was quite state-of-the-art.

Other than those, Iceland has been mentioned a few times ITT, and I agree it would be good. The combination of cold weather (assuming zombies have human-like tolerance to heat or cold) and open plains make it a good choice, and it's a big enough island that if you needed to, you could take a short boat ride over to northern Europe

IMO, the deserts of Australia would also be good, but not other hot places like Africa, Asia or Hawaii, considering zombies would thrive off the throngs of people there and would do well in tropical temperatures.