To not want to buy property for fear of WW3?

[Vizella]

Hi all,

I’m finally getting to a stage where I’ve saved enough for a house deposit, earn well in a remote finance job and am willing to leave London to go to South Yorkshire and buy a house.

Then a niggling thought in my mind says, if your house is destroyed in WW3, all your savings will go down the drain and you will be left destitute.

I appreciate that it’s a crazy thought to have but Iran and Israel are at each other’s throats and Russia has no intention of backing out of Ukraine. When people had their cities bombed in the past, how did they survive?

Tell me if I’m being unreasonable? If so, why?

OP in the movies all the alien invaders decide to invade in remote parts of America. So that’s a consideration.

Can just imagine the Supreme Leader of Iran gathering his generals in the war room and shouting "this, this is where we strike!" as he points to Mexborough on a map of the world.

I don’t think there would be another WW3 land war like we have had in the past. Sadly it would go nuclear quite quickly. Mortgages will be the last thing in our minds. Let’s hope this never happens!

EVERYWHERE got nuked in Threads - it just focused the drama on Sheffield.

I wonder if the OP has the right to live in America? They're not terribly generous with their visas.

Avoid big cities or places with important infrastructure. Also consider building some kind of refuge. Not much else you can do, unless you want to go the full prepper's route...

Must be a wind up.

Can’t believe anyone thinks America is the place to go if WWIII breaks out.

Oh yes America. A lot safer than South Yorkshire 😂

This cannot be real.

If WW3 starts i doubt most of us will survive ?.

Yes I'm sure if WW3 breaks out it will be easy to just book a one-way flight with Thomas Cook from South Yorkshire to America (the safe part though).

I can just imagine it, bombs dropping everywhere, cities being destroyed, people being killed in their thousands, and OP is sat in the airport lounge with a nice glass of fizz waiting for her flight 😂

I watched it in the 80,s it gave me nightmares for years .

I don’t recommend anyone watching this. I watched it in my teens and spent ten years in fear.

I have struggled with anxiety throughout my life and I feel like it would latch on to something in the news and be triggered.

I’m wondering if OP has anxiety?

I have done a lot of reading over the years to keep myself in ‘the present moment’ and suggest OP reminds herself that while she’s worrying she’s failing to notice that she’s living her best life now.

If WW3 starts you're much better off in south yorkshire than in London.

And if you own a place, even with a mortgage, you are much more secure in having somewhere to retreat to.

WW3 will either have battlefields far away from us and our main troubles will be shortages, protests and economic turmoil but mostly physically safe, or there will be nukes and it will be over very very quickly and your savings will be no use to you anyway. So really it's best to do whatever you would do if this wasn't a concern.

I’d probably just focus on getting a visa and moving there.

Funny enough, I've viewed a few houses in Yorkshire with Anderson shelters in good condition. Perfect for OP.

So just go now then

Your job is remote, chances are if your house is destroyed you’ll be in it, so you won’t need anywhere else to live. Buy the house & enjoy your life.

No one ever thought lockdown would happen but it did.

Anything is possible.

The irony is that this kind of bonkers risk averseness would probably make you quite a good homeowner.

Your thinking is quite skewed; firstly America isn't a safe landscape; divisive country, has nearly every natural disaster ie tornado etc, also how would you get there? secondly you're far more likely to be killed in an RTA despite you're 'oh I'll not get hit by a bus'

This made me laugh out loud 😂 Thanks for that!

My next step is to show this thread to my siblings and pretend I didn’t write it and see what their objective responses are.

Thanks so much everyone for helping me see sense 👍

If it genuinely was WW3, surely they'd be nowhere to go?!
Sorry but your mindset is bizarre. You can't live like that, it's unhealthy.

Take it you’re not aware of the Sheffield Blitz then? Sheffield was heavily bombed in WW2, although granted the steelworks have all but gone now, but maybe the “enemy” will have a real hatred of hendersons relish. You can never be too careful when catastrophising about future events which may or may not happen and about which you have no control over.

OP - in the event of nuclear war you may as well die in the comfort of your own home than in an over priced rental. I doubt you’d be able to flee to America, and they will definitely be heavily involved if not instrumental in any world war which does break out.

Live your life. However and whenever you die, there are no pockets in a shroud.🙄

Not to undermine your worry OP, but some of the responses made me laugh. Seriously though, get to Yorkshire, its beautiful and you're near to the Peak District - there may be some caves to hide in if there's WW3.

Why is it that we have right wing media loudly decrying immigration, rioting on the streets, Farage in parliament, yet posters seem to think they can just choose where they are going to head to when the bombs start falling?