City Survival Guides / Suburban Prepper
Complete Library · $97 Lifetime
Metropolitan skyline, river, and freeway network under gathering storm clouds at dusk

Your city. Your routes. Your survival plan.

City Survival Guides

A continuously expanding library of multi-hour, city-specific video dossiers built for the places where millions of people, aging infrastructure, limited exits, and cascading failures collide.

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The problem

Generic Advice Breaks at City Limits

Most preparedness content is written for rural readers—people with acreage, wells, wood heat, and multiple ways out. A metropolitan area gives you none of those assumptions. Population density changes the timing. Infrastructure changes the threat. Local law changes your options. Geography decides whether you can move at all.

What saves you in Phoenix can kill you in Chicago.

Inside every city dossier

Eleven Layers. One Metropolitan Area.

Each multi-hour guide strips one city down to the terrain, systems, laws, threats, and decisions that matter when normal life stops working.

Strategic City Profile

The metropolitan footprint, regional role, critical dependencies, and the realities that shape every later decision.

Terrain & Geography

Rivers, elevation, climate, coastlines, flood zones, chokepoints, and natural barriers that control movement.

Population Density

Where people concentrate, how daily movement changes after disruption, and where pressure builds first.

Infrastructure Failure

Power, water, fuel, communications, transit, ports, bridges, and the cascade that follows when one system drops.

Neighborhood Assessment

A district-by-district look at access, density, resources, barriers, exposure, and practical mobility.

Crime & Threat Environment

Local patterns, likely shifts during instability, and the difference between routine risk and crisis risk.

Firearms & Self-Defense Law

The jurisdiction-specific legal framework that affects possession, transport, storage, and lawful defense.

Evacuation in Every Direction

Primary and alternate corridors, bridges, tunnels, bottlenecks, fuel constraints, and route failure points.

Threats Ranked by Probability

The scenarios most likely to hit that city first—ordered for planning, not theater.

Governing Principles

The decision rules that remain useful when a plan meets traffic, weather, outages, and human behavior.

50-Item Action Checklist

A concrete list to turn the guide into routes, supplies, contacts, backups, and decisions before they are needed.

The library

Cities Already Covered

One purchase unlocks the entire collection. You are not choosing one city—you are securing the library.

New York City
Chicago
Los Angeles
Houston
Philadelphia
Phoenix
San Antonio
Detroit
Minneapolis
Memphis
Nashville
Miami
Tampa
Savannah
Las Vegas
Seattle
Indianapolis
Columbus
Louisville
Washington DC
Atlanta
Virginia Beach
Fayetteville
Holden Beach
London
Mexico City
Seoul
Vancouver
New Brunswick
More cities in production

The library is actively expanding. Lifetime access covers every guide added later at no extra cost—including cities that do not exist in the library yet.

See the level of detail

Specific Enough to Act On

This is the difference between “have an evacuation plan” and knowing what your city will put in your way.

Chicago / Westbound Medical & Evacuation Snapshot

If the Loop loses power and river crossings lock up, Northwestern Memorial Hospital at 251 E. Huron Street sits approximately one mile from the center of downtown. Rush University Medical Center at 1620 W. Harrison Street is roughly three miles west.

I-290 is the principal westbound route toward I-294, but the Jane Byrne Interchange becomes an immediate choke point. O’Hare International Airport is about 18 miles northwest of downtown by the I-90 corridor. A route labeled only “go west” leaves too many decisions for the worst possible moment.

A usable plan identifies the hospital, the first failed interchange, the next two crossings, the fuel decision point, and the route you take when the primary corridor stops moving.

Who wrote this

Experience Before Theory

A retired combat Veteran and Family Nurse Practitioner who writes under the name Suburban Prepper.

Flight Medic with the 160th SOAR during Desert Storm.

Combat Medic with the 76th Infantry Brigade, Task Force Phoenix, in Afghanistan.

Afterward, Combat Medic to ICU Registered Nurse to Family Nurse Practitioner, with a George Washington University Fellowship in Alternative and Complementary Medicine.

What this is not

No Noise. No Theater.

× No gear reviews
× No fear content
× No fabricated statistics
× No doomsday theater

Skills. Terrain. Decisions.

Complete City Survival Guides Library

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  • Every city currently in the library
  • Every new city guide added later
  • Multi-hour, video-based city dossiers
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  • No trial clock and no second purchase
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Questions answered

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this video or written?

The guides are video-based. Each city is broken down in a multi-hour dossier designed to take you through the metropolitan area layer by layer.

Do I get all cities or just one?

You get the entire City Survival Guides library with one purchase—not a single city.

Is there a subscription?

No. The price is $97 one time. There is no subscription, recurring charge, or trial.

Are new cities being added?

Yes. New city guides are added continuously as the library expands.

Do I pay again when a new city is added?

No. One purchase covers the complete library, including every future guide, at no extra cost.

Who is this for?

People who live in, work in, or travel to major metropolitan areas and want specific planning for the city in front of them—not generic rural advice built around acreage and a private well.

Build the plan before the city changes

Know How Your City Actually Fails.

Get the complete City Survival Guides library today—and every city added in the future—for one payment of $97.

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This is survival. This is resilience. This is preparedness.