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I probably need to have a month or two of supplies and water. But assuming a worldwide breakdown in order rather than a nuclear or natural holocaust that kills most everybody, I'd try to get to a community that has most of what it needs to survive: access to water, food, transportation, even energy.
I live in a town like that. We're relatively near a major metro area, but separated by a barrier of mountains that could be enforced as a pretty good border. The weather is mild and we grow crops here all year long. We've got a lot of artsy craftsy shit going on, so we've got people who can weave and knit clothes and spin yarn, and we've even got sheep that can be sheared for wool. We're on the coast, so fish can be caught. The only reason this place isn't knee-deep in squid is that so much is caught for export; but if that stopped because of world-wide economic breakdown, we'd have more calamari than we could eat. There's a port, so we could access the outside world by sea even if the land was crap. And there are oilfields 50 miles away in a sparsely-populated area. So I think that my area, and probably some others like it, would find a way to hold things together come anything short of something that totally screws the environment or kills more than 50 percent of the population.
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