It's A Zombie World

I’ll admit it, I don’t get zombies.  Oh, I know what they are, uh, what they are supposed to be. I watched the original ‘Night of the Living Dead’ back in the late 60’s, the movie that put zombies on the map.  Of course, there were some 1950’s B-grade horror movies that also delved into zombies, mostly in Haiti, and the plot was always tied to Voodoo.   Now, everybody is into zombies, and in a BIG way – even in real estate.

What’s that you say? Real estate?  Sure.  Just yesterday I had two zombie articles cross my news feeds.  The first was an ebay listing for a small town in southern Georgia that is for sale for $680,000.  It happens to be where the television program “The Walking Dead” is filmed.  That show is about survivors of the apocalypse that find themselves in a world inhabited by – zombies. 

The second article was about a company in the UK that is building ‘zombie-proof’ log cabins.  Extra-thick interlocking logs, barbed wire, slit windows – ain’t no zombies getting in here! It even has a zombie sniper deck.  You, too, can own a ZFC-1 structure for just $110,000. 

Reading these items, I remembered seeing something recently from none other than the Center for Disease Control (CDC). They put together an entertaining, comic book-style document that shows what you should have to survive an emergency.  It’s titled “Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic”.  Apparently the steps you would take to survive zombies works for other disasters, too! The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) got into it, too, by cross-promoting the CDC  document.  Surviving zombies goes along with their ‘shelter in place’ advice for natural disasters, it seems.

Zombies are considered to be mindless and unthinking and prey upon the living.  Is there another real estate-zombie analogy here somewhere?

For more info on zombies, see the Wikipedia entry.

image courtesy of CDC