We’ve all watched our fair share of movies where characters are on the run from sort of angry mob, zombies, or monsters. These people often make incredibly poor decisions about where they should hide. I mean, brightly lit apartment building in the middle of the place that you’re being hunted? Come on.
Check out our picks for the best places to hide when you’re on the run.
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Best Refuges When You're on the Run
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Farm House
The old favorite for survivors of any sort of zombie apocalypse, farmhouses make for great hideaways. Think about it. They’re remote, able to grow their own food, and often come fully stocked with the weaponry that you’ll need to defend yourself. The downside? These place are often tough to secure because of their size, so, if you’re not dealing with slow moving zombies, you might want to keep looking.
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Giant Truck
The most important thing about avoiding trouble, whether it be apocalyptic or simply mob-driven anarchy, is to keep on the move. People, things or monsters cannot mess with you if they can’t find you, and the only way that you can ensure they’ll never find you is to move from place to place. How do you do that? Truck. The bigger the better. Why you ask? First off, it’ll probably be able to handle rougher terrain and the more room it has, the more gas you can carry with you.
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Army Base
If the army base is not the place where everything started, then it’s the first place that you should head when bad things go down. It will be fully stocked with guns, ammo, trucks, gasoline, food and it’s also pretty well barricaded. Down side? You might have to deal with soldiers who aren’t interested in your company.
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Gas Station
Due to the unfortunate frequency of robberies, some gas stations are equipped with cashier booths that are filled with food, drinks, cigarettes, cash, and often a gun or two. Add in that they’re padded with 4-inch thick bulletproof glass and you’ve got yourself a fort.
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Boat
Well, this refuge doesn’t really hold up if you’re in some sort of Waterworld-type scenario, but if you’re running away from zombies or normal people, you should realize that there is much more open ocean than there is paved ground.
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Zoo
So this tip is kind of a gamble. If you systemically go around the zoo, releasing all of the dangerous animals one-by-one, then you should have a pretty safe hiding place when you lock yourself in the manager’s office. Of course, the animals could all just end up killing each other instead of your assailants, which would leave you very undefended.
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Sporting Goods Store
Like most retail shops, sporting goods stores would be a bit tougher to defend based purely on what you would assume to be the visibility of the location and the ease of access through numerous entryways. That being said, where else are you going to find every possible thing you need to fight, trap, and survive in one location? Probably nowhere.
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Sewer
Unless the things that are hunting you are coming from the sewer, it’s not such a bad place to hide. For instance, the streets are loose with maniacs wielding machetes and guns? Pop open a storm drain and head down into the muck. If they follow you (which they probably won’t), at least you’ll have a chance to make some booby-traps and catch them off-guard.
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Tree House
Nobody suspects that a grown man would hide in a tree house…
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Plane
As soon as the troubles begin, find yourself a cargo plane and some buddies, stock it full of provisions and fly it down to some remote South American beach. Step 2? Live out the rest of your days in happiness.
