Forget Ohio. I’ve heard that land and housing is getting pretty cheap in parts of Southern California, particularly in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Maybe buy a cabin in the mountains for $150K. Throw on some solar panels, grab a copy of Theodore J. Kaczynski’s memoirs and a few thousand bottles of scotch and count the days ’til 2012.
P.S. – Forgive my ignorance, but for planning the purposes I need to know whether the Mayan calendar ended at the beginning of 2012 or the end of the year, e.g. Jan 1 or Dec 31. This will help me and my financial planner schedule my laddered CD purchases more optimally. I’d hate to have a CD mature after the end of time. That would be wasteful. Thanks.