Exactly:
"Once food, water & shelter are obtained, then is a question of SUSTAINABILITY,
How do you replace the food you initially found?
How do you produce enough water to wash with/grow crops/water any livestock, etc?"
Most of the population is urban now, many living in high-rise megalopolises, which is why a prolonged shut down of utilities or supply chains could turn into a 'zombie apocolypse' TEOTWAWKI situation.
A small back yard garden is as relevant to keeping a family fed long term, as some potted mint in your window sill. Maybe if you live in the suburbs and plant your entire yard, you might get by...until your neighbors want to eat.
And what about water? If you live in an urban area blessed with little yards instead of an apartment in a "concrete jungle", and IF the city would give you a permit, the well drilling company probably wouldn't be able to get their derrick in place to drill it.
"So, bug out". Without a destination, you're just an unwelcome part of a refugee migration that farmers/locals will see as a threat to their resources.
Prepping isn't about being lazy, unskilled, and/or stupid. It's more like getting ready for the storm or stocking the lifeboat. Just because there are unskilled, uninformed people who panic bought a year's supply of TP in 3/20, doesn't mean THAT'S being a "prepper".
Anyway, it's good you're squared away.
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