Bad news, you guys. Living in So Cal means you can pretty much be guaranteed of a zombie noshing on your brain come the apocalypse.
CareerBuilder, who I guess took a break from building careers, looked at large U.S. cities and weighed factors in four different categories: Defense, Containment, Cure (?) and Food.
When it came down to it, Los Angeles was the third least likely city to survive the zombie apocalypse – with The Inland Empire coming in just behind at number 4. And don’t think about heading up to Vegas, they were the 10th least likely city to survive. (note: the Palm Springs area was not part of the “study” – but I think we can all agree that The Coachella Valley is pretty much doomed come zombie time…unless maybe you can fight zombies with meth)
So where should you go when the walkers start…well, walking? Head south to San Diego. The beach city was ranked the 7th best city to survive – which is good news, because they have great fish tacos.
Here are the complete lists:
Least likely to survive a zombie apocalypse:
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
- Tampa-St. Petersberg-Clearwater, FL
- Los Angeles-LongBeach-Anaheim, CA
- Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario, CA
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
- Jacksonville, FL
- Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI
- Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
- Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV
And here are the cities with your best shot at living:
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Columbus, OH
- Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
- Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport New, VA-NC
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
- San Diego-Carlsbad, CA
- Kansas City, MO-KS
- Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
- Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN
