The Walking Dead: Top 5 places you shouldn’t go

3) Subway Stations

I’m specifically talking about underground subway stations here, before anyone goes off about above-ground stations that are part of a subway line in various cities, just so we’re all on the same page.

Now that we are on the same page, let me explain why subway stations are such a bad place to hole up in a zombie apocalypse.

Right off the bat, there’s a good chance that food is going to become an issue really quick, as, with the exception of a few vending machines, popcorn or hotdog carts, and the odd subway station beneath a mall, there’s not going to be much in the way of food. Sure, you can scavenge the buildings around the area, but, those buildings will only have so much for so long, and worse, going out can compromise the one great advantage of a subway station: Inconspicuousness. The more you go out, the more likely that zombies or potential hostiles can follow you back or otherwise figure out where your base is.

Next, if there’s a bad storm, you might find yourself completely inundated, forcing you out into the open, which, if you’re in a large city (And, most underground subway stations are), that means you’re likely very exposed to huge numbers of zombies!

Lastly, even though there may be multiple ways out of a subway station, the most likely being the tunnels heading inbound/outbound, those same tunnels can be used by the very zombies you’d be trying to escape from. In all of these scenarios, I’m imagining that you are (Rather unexpectedly) set upon by a large herd of zombies, and need to make a quick getaway, but, in a subway station, depending on where you are, chances are good that the herd you’re being attacked by may already be waiting for you at the next station or, even worse, inside the pitch black darkness of the tunnels. In Boston, for example, there are some subway stations only separated by a few blocks, it’s entirely plausible that a herd that’s attacking you at Park Street…is also waiting for you at Downtown Crossing! Assuming there weren’t any zombies in the tunnels, you might run away from a herd of zombies, only to run into the back end of that same herd of zombies!

If you have to make a go of surviving in a city in the zombie apocalypse, try finding a better place to stay than a subway station.

Speaking of cities…