What If A Collapse Happened And Nobody Noticed?

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18. Cities will fare better overall until the breakdown becomes severe.

Cities will be impacted if large-scale infrastructure like sewage treatment, the water supply or the electrical grid fail. They will also take a hit if the food system starts to break down. So while there will be a period during which cities will be better off than rural areas, there may come a point where the advantage shifts back to the rural areas. Rural areas could have an advantage at that point due to lower population densities, the ease of growing food, the availability of water, less need for complex sanitation systems and less need for electricity (no high-rise apartments that need elevators and air conditioning...)

Any shift back to the rural advantage should be well down the road though, because the elites tend to be concentrated in the cities, and their needs will ensure that the basics keep operating for quite some time.