I find myself trying to take account of a lot of different scenarios, ranging from a “soft landing” — where oil depletes gradually and price rises are the biggest problem we have to deal with — to a crash with both sturm and drang.  In the soft landing scenario, I’d hope to stay in North Vancouver and help relocalize it into a fairly self-sufficient neighborhood, bearing in mind that that still requires preserving farmload to grow food for the whole metro area and so on.  That’s why I’m eager to get the Peak Oil task force going, get the city council and the provincial government on board, and make Vancouver the first city in Canada to officially prepare for what’s coming.  But I’m also thinking about what to do in a more severe scenario — I’d still need a village around me — but maybe somewhere farther from the city, like Nelson, or the Sunshine Coast?  That kind of scenario brings with it a million questions:  How do I make a living?  What about family, here and elsewhere?  Where are my best friends?  How do I convince lots of people with Really Useful Skills to come live next to me and teach me everything I don’t know?  No real answers yet, but I’m hoping 2008 will bring much more clarity.  I’ll update this post when I know more.