re: atlanta: When/If the $hit Hits the Fan............

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You are assuming that a pandemic or whatever strikes equally. History shows that typically it does not. If those families in the wilds are struck first it won't matter what their proximity to water is. It would be worse for the sickness to strike the outlying areas. (As history shows it typically does) IF they are wiped out first, then the people in the cities would be trapped trying to get out of the cities due to clogged roadways, etc and your premise would be correct.

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An epidemic would wreak much more havoc in a city since everyone is packed together. And given the ease of travel nowadays, even if the first outbreak of a disease is in a rural area, it'll end up in a more urban area really fast and will spread much faster there (assuming we are talking about a disease that is infectious enough to result in an end of times type scenario). By time people realize the threat of the disease, it'll already be in the big city.

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am trying to argue that Jeff's premise that cities are bad and we are safer in suburbia are ill founded.

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I don't think Jeff comes across as a fan of suburbia either