Civilized, Peripheral and Poor

Portugal is:

1. Civilized: There's little crime, and there's respect for property and privacy.
2. Peripheral: It's often overlooked when it comes to globalist agendas.
3. Poor: There's little money available for social engineering.

These are virtues that makes Portugal a good destination for people who desire to be left alone to do their own thing. However, Portugal is not immune to madness. Things are not quite as bad as in places like France, Italy and Germany. But politicians push for totalitarian control here too, and it's impossible to say where things are heading.

The way things are right now, I see no reason to go anywhere. We'll simply stay put and wait for things to settle down before making any moves. However, if things deteriorate further, we need to consider our options, which in my case are several.

For one, I can return to Norway with my family. Norway is both peripheral and civilized, and it has a history of low tolerance towards nonsense. It's not a poor country, but has a culture steeped in a tradition of prudence and discipline. It's a place of relative sanity.

Alternatively, I can buy or rent a small farm in the Portuguese outback.

However, there might be an even better option available out in the Atlantic. There's an archipelago outside Africa with a culture similar to Portugal. The islands were uninhabited until 550 years ago when European seafarers discovered them. Portugal took control of the islands and developed them into a peripheral clone of their own country.

These are the Cape Verde islands. Unlike the Azores and Madeira, which are still under Portuguese control, Cape Verde is independent. Hence, they are in a position to develop policies different from those in Portugal. Being just as civilized as Portugal, and even more peripheral and poor, Cape Verde may end up doing things very different from other western nations.

This leaves me with three options beyond my default option of doing nothing. That's better than having a single plan B. I have flexibility, and this flexibility will be preserved if I move to Cape Verde, because I can always return to either Portugal or Norway.

Such a move will not be a break with my established contacts. My wife may even continue her work as an editor from this remote location. We will keep in contact with friends and family, which adds flexibility to them as well. Not only can I return to Norway, Norwegian family members can come to us in Cape Verde. Alternatively, we go to Portugal.

However, this is not the time to band together. It's too early to tell where things are going. Hence, it's better to spread out than to come together, because likeminded people clustered together make for easy targets. A hostile state can do a Waco, and kill everybody. But if everybody are spread out we can go under the radar.

Each of us can build community around ourselves, and integrate into it. My Christian friend here in Portugal is on good terms with his neighbors in the Portuguese outback. My children in Norway have their own circles of friends. I'm on good terms with our neighbors in our Porto neighborhood.

We would do the same in Cape Verde if we were to go there. We would rent a place while looking around, and we would make an effort to get on good terms with everybody. Once that's established, others can come and join us without it coming across as excessive or threatening among the locals.

The trick is to integrate as much as possible, and to make it both pleasant and profitable to have us around. The more we spread out in this manner, the more options there will be for maneuvering in times of crisis. However, for now, I'm going nowhere. I'm doing perfectly fine where I am.

Satellite photo of the Cape Verde islands

By Terra (NASA) - http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010327-1123/CapeVerde.A2010327.1200.250m.jpg, Public Domain, Link