In a time of crisis and disruption to the food supply would you choose to live in:

@Zailrand
Village.

I currently live in the middle of nowhere. It is very difficult to grow, hunt and raise your own food by yourself. Especially if you are starting from scratch.

The optimum size is 150 to 1,500 people.This evenly disperses the workload, and takes advantage of different skill sets.

@corlin True, although I figure I could manage adequately for a few years just me in the middle of nowhere (have a remote house that was my mums) ... Get some rabbits n chickens, or just eat the dim local pheasants... Get a stock of plenty of food and fuel to begin with, lots of wood to forage locally and leave to dry, even coal at the bottom of the gill next to the house...

@Zailrand
I did do this. Spent 1 winter and 2 summers by myself, way out in the hills, of southern Missouri. Ozark mountains.
Did not go well. I did have plenty of deer to hunt and eat, some small game. But the land was rock, no soil to speak of, so no garden.

The first time I fell breaking the ice on the pond. I almost starved, in the following weeks.

You need people around, stuff happens.

@corlin Yep, I get that. We have good neighbours up there, right next door. My mum lived on her own in that house for years in deteriorating health, not that she was particularly self sufficient.