I am interested in this "PT Club" and "Five Flags Theory", but I really don't see this holding up very well during a SHTF/TEOTWAWKI scenario.
First, while I'm not a big peak-oil guy, I do feel that international travel is going to revert back to the super-wealthy at some point. Being able to pay less than $1000 for nearly immediate access to any other country on the globe is not a dependable mode of transportation. Once fuel prices climb to the point where commercial air travel is no longer a viable marketplace the infrastructure for this is going to deteriorate or be snapped up quickly.
Second, as we become more and more connected to the international markets I feel that we're more likely to have a
global event rather than a localized/regional event. While the physical impact of a SHTF-event may not be felt very far away, the economic impact of that event may send our already fragile worldwide economy into a tailspin very quickly. Once this happens the ideas of governments and borders start getting very fuzzy very quickly.
Sure, it would be easy right now to pick five countries that are beneficial to some aspect of your life, safe, relatively "free", and stable... but making sure you had access to them (personally and financially) is something that I'm not so sure about.
Granted... it's probably not any better to have everything physically on you, no matter how "free" or independent you feel your current situation is. There does need to be some redundancy and diversification, we talk about that all the time, I just don't see how spreading things all around the globe is going to make them much more safer at this point.
I will be reading more into these topics however... it fascinates me to imagine living that "Bourne" lifestyle, just showing up in a city, grabbing a chunk of cash out of a safe deposit box, living it up, and then heading to a property somewhere else.
