I've always planned on bugging in, at least initially. I think if there's a widespread SHTF scenario, there'll be panic, looting, lots of violence, gang and thugs taking advantage, and general chaos for a while. Whatever authority figures are still functioning will try to clamp down, but short of complete martial law, they won't have much impact. Then there'll be a widespread die off of the sheeple who can't prepare and expect everyone to take care of them, probably starting about a week in and lasting up to 6 months. Finally those that were prepared and hunkered down will emerge, and society will start to rebuild.

My feeling is that while all this happens, it's a bad time to be out and about. I plan to disappear, and am set to hunker down for 3 months quite comfortably, and probably even longer - up to a year or more. If it goes much past 3 months, we'll then bug out to our first alternate location, with family in the mountains.