You must not have a lot of equity in your home that you can't sell it and straight out pay in full for another home or a significant down payment enough to equal about what you are paying now. There are some stores including one Meijers store that I know of that has armed private security here. During the protest here stores like Walmart and Menards brought in fencing to put over their entrances then placed large dump trunks in front of them, the weekend after the rioting Walmart closed down for the weekend....so I know they have contingency plans in place for such events to minimize the damage. During the riots downtown where a lot of gentrification has spurred growth down there when the rioters tried to get into apartment buildings they were meant with the owners pointing shot guns at them...I think it was planned this way, same as with the court house and the prosecutors office building which is a few blocks from police headquarters, they knew they couldn't protect all three so they stationed police inside the prosecutors office, they could break the windows and get inside the lobby but they were met with guns pointing at them to keep them from going further. They stationed old police cars from that point leading to the court house I am thinking as a deliberate diversion to give them something to do like smash them up and set them on fire, they didn't get to far at the court house either, graffiti and smashed windows but no entry. What that all shows you though is when they were busy protecting their own the other shops and restaurants took the blunt of it. That is whats going to happen if riots start dispersing into surrounding neighborhoods...you will be on your own until some other law enforcement entity arrives as back up. If the economy collapses and people get that desperate for food they'll just break into people's homes when they aren't there to get it. My line of thinking is I'd rather be out where the people are who can afford to defend themselves then to be a sitting duck in the middle of the vast majority of economically disadvantaged people who can't defend themselves.