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    If you won the lottery...

    Assuming you people aren't ultra rich , would you build yourself a zombie proof house? And if you did, what would be the features? Stocking with food is a given.

    As for me, I always thought about some kinda citadel city atop a hill. To step to climb from any point except the road leading up. I guess i would make some kinda bridge feature as well. Back up generators, my own power plant, a helicopter launch pad on the top, and all my cars would have bulletproof windows. I would very rarely use any compact cars. I would have to depend on my mack truck.

    Then I would set up fenced outposts with fuel, so If i needed to get a way, i could map out the fuel posts, and refuel as I needed. Oh yeah, have another house built for me in the north somewhere.

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    Do you believe that a zombie apocalypse is coming or is this a theoretical question?

    If it is, I would have to say no. I wouldn't waste money on that. Plus, zombies are fictional.

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    If I won the lottery, I would definately upgrade from my present abode. However, I believe that the likelihood of a zombie outbreak is so incredibly small, if not outright 100% unlikely, that I would not spend any money at all to "zombie proof" my house. I might buy this condo I saw hanging over the top of Mount Washington in Pittsburgh. I think it was selling for only $150,000. I think it was only two bedrooms though, if I won the lottery, I would want more than just two bedrooms.

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    Sure your talking about zombie survival? That mountain lair idea is suitable for a James Bond villian.


    Beware the beast, man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eyebiter View Post
    Sure your talking about zombie survival? That mountain lair idea is suitable for a James Bond villian.
    No, I was not talking about zombie survival. I was just saying that is what I would do if I won the lottery. I suppose that if I won the lottery, and somehow had advanced warning that a zombie outbreak was in fact going to happen in the future, then I would build a zombie safehouse.

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    a zombie proof house for me would be a underground bunker, with only one entrance and thats a blastdoor.

    we would have enough food, water and purified air (becuase it may just be a airbourne virus OR the goverments may try using nuclear weapons) to last us, we would also have a underground farm growing both crops and animals, to give us a endless food supply.


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    Personally I'd buy a remote ranch in a sparsely populated area. The type of place where less than 100 people live within 50 miles.

    The land should have it's own water source and at least two deep wells. Would be nice to have a stock pond for livestock, and if it's large enough put a few fish in it.

    House dug into a hill with windows facing to the south to get extra sunlight and protection from the wind. Plant a large shelter belt of trees around the property to supply firewood and protection from the elements. Good haven for various birds and small game as well.

    For power have a modern windmill to supply electricity and run the water pump for the well. Solar panels with a diesel generator for backup would also be nice. Definately require a wood stove during the winter months.

    A large green house along with a large garden would be required to support a small group of survivors. Having some animals like horses, cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys would ensure a good mix of food supplies. And provide draft animals for farming. After the gasoline runs out suddenly having a horse or ox for transport purposes would become very valuable.


    Beware the beast, man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.
    - 23rd Sacred Scroll, 6th verse

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    I would move away from the CRACK zombies (an actual real threat) and to a place without any stupidass loud neighbors.
    Then I would make a sick ass Zombie movie with my own money on 70mm. An epic to end all epics. MAybe buy a single screen classic type theatre that shows cult double features all day and night.
    Real zombie attack? uh... highly unlikely. to say the least.
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    Most people who win the lottery p*ss it all away in a year or less. I guess zombie proofing a house is as good a way as any. What the tax man doesn't get anyway.

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    If I won the lotto, it would be very likley that i'd move way out of the city, and get a flat in the city for when I'm there. I doubt i'd "zombie proof" my house, as my bird would probley filp her lid, (she'd blantley know what I was up to also).

    I do like the idea of a castle style house including a mote. It would also have to be totally selfsuffient with solar on the roof and a wind turbine knocking about somewhere. As castles are generally on a hill, and have a court yard i'd turn that into a veggy patch to keep myself from getting scurvey. The hill thing would probley keep to totally safe from an impending attack espically if you had a mote at the bottom aswell.

    Although I like the idea of all that, I think I'd rather get myself a massive boat. You can live at sea almost indefinatly if you know how, and so long as the whales dont attack I'd feel a lot safer/free'er out there than in any castle. There would also be the chance of running across an abandoned island, god I hope its not the one from lost.

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    I think that I can sleep easily tonight in my modest terraced house, safe in the knowledge that predation by any undead hoard is unlikely in the extreme .
    However, since I live in Border Reiver country there are a few Bastle houses, Peel towers and fortified farmhouses of various sorts around here, and if I had the money to buy one and if one came up for sale then I would love to live in one.
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    i don't know about zombie proof but i'd definitly try to get a set like dude had in "blast from the past"

    kinda like a super fallout shelter fully stocked

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    I'd buy a huge Zeppelin and float around in the sky while watching the gory spectacle from above.

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    Well if i was wealthy and worked for a company developing a biological weapon that could cause such a thing i would be smart and live in a huge mansion on huge acreage completely gated on all sides with a wall. i will have some basic farm animals, chickens etc, weapons and stock up on supplies. or hell i will buy my own private island in the south pacific

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    If you were super rich, you would probably try to create a real Godzilla, and have him protect you from the zeds!

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