Survivors

[NeilF]

Seriusly? I only remeber my dad having the car battery changed once in it;s 18 years.

Plus once one dies, you've got several million more to help yourself to.

Survial in the wild, and scavenging in the ruins of a civilization are very diffrent.

For 1 no deed to find/make natural shelter.

Very little need for fire.

No need to produce warm clothing.

And as long as you;ve got a car battery handy fire isn;t an issue, or if you nip down to the supermarket/warehouse/olider of fortune there enough gass burners + tanks + petrol + matches + lighters + fierstarters + hexi, + flints and steel to last you till the day your grand children die.

No point being able to hunt a rabbit with a bow, when you could eat a tin of something and put the extra time into somthing more constructive like looting/modifiying equipment.

Batteries go off... ie: If you leave a battery in a car it will lose its charge. After enough years it won't even hold a charge any more. So for example after 10-20 years you'd be pushed to find a car batteries that will work at all!

Within a few years, a lot of buildings would, without maintenance, become open to the elements. Meaning packages/tins will begin to degrade. ie: Get damp/rotten.

Visits into town will probably have risks - Wild dogs, disease. Bites from lice can give you typhoid for example!

Time would be against you living off the previous generations left overs... At some point it would be gone/unusable. And then the tumble would begin down probably back to some sort of medieval level of technology...