There's ideal and then there's realistic.
Ideal? Midwest few acres of land surrounded by a couple of sources of fresh water and plenty of animal life to hunt.
Realistic? You most likely live in a mid to large city. Prep for your situation/surroundings. Have a plan of what you are going to do for different levels of emergencies. Storm knocks out power for 3 days what are you doing? New pandemic locks everything down for a week what are you doing? Cyber attack takes down power grid for a month what are you doing? and finally all hell breaks lose, civil war, what's your plan?
I plan harder for the first two than the rest. As far as trustworthy, kind of the same thing, people are very trustworthy and friendly during a snow storm, no one and I mean no one is going to be trustworthy and friendly if the power goes out on half the country for a month.
"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet"