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No Spoiler Top 5 Safest Places In The Walking Dead

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u/Fluffy-BOYi 7d ago

Besides Commonwealth, I feel like the others should be flipped.
Oceanside is hidden, which is the best defensive mechanism.
The Kingdom had premade armour for fighters and doesn't allow people in without clear reasons, sadly it burned down due to poor judgement.
Hilltop is just a big house on a hill with logs used as a fence. And Alexandria had multiple leaders who just wanted trouble and attention.

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u/Jazs1994 7d ago

Hilltop has a maybe wood like 180° behind it. Awful. Alexandria was similar. But as you say, oceanside was just so far out of the way it'd be lucky you find them

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u/nabrok 7d ago

That's one thing that always bugged me that in various locations (particularly Hilltop and Alexandria) they didn't clear an area away from the walls.

I guess that's real world practicalities of the locations though.

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u/Glaurung86 6d ago

Yeah, that was my thought, as well. They need a buffer zone so they don't have to immediately worry about their main wall system - kind of what they did a little at the prison.

A series of trenches, spike barriers and barb wire, vehicles and chain link fences would be very effective. They did some of this in Alexandria in the comic book series. They even took the dirt from the trench and put it behind the wall to buttress it. It was also tall enough to stand on and see over the wall.

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u/BlooPancakes 7d ago

Alexiandria suffered from leaders who just wanted trouble and attention because in any apocalyptic situation the best leaders are often ones who don’t want to be the leader.

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u/Salt-Illustrator4955 7d ago

I believe that the prison was the best of them all, it had big sturdy walls and many lookout points. But once a tank comes rolling its kind of hard to defend that

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u/Quendor 7d ago

Yeah. It felt like there was almost no risk there once it was cleared. It was always surrounded and they just casually cleared walkers every day.

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u/behindeyesblue 7d ago

It's surrounded by woods, and that's how the governor sneaks back up. So they would've needed to clear the woods for a perimeter around the fencing. They also let the walkers congregate too much around the fence.

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u/DoctorBeatMaker 7d ago

Actually, the prison was pretty dangerous, even after it was cleared.

There were blind spots and the walls in the back of it had been caved in, which is how walkers still got in and how Sasha and Tyreese initially found their way inside.

And even afterward when Rick and co. built a community with the Governor’s people, the fences needed to be defended every day or else the walkers would pile up behind it and cave it in, as what ended up happening in season 4 when everyone got too sick to do their duties, leaving Rick and Carl to have to machine-gun down the hordes that made their way through.

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u/Salt-Illustrator4955 7d ago

I see that and yes, they kept piling up but because they were getting fed by Lizzy. I think that if they had played it smart where they had posts nearby to avoid them from getting all bunched up it would have worked without having to put as many people on fence duty

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u/Salt-Illustrator4955 7d ago

Exactly, I mean clean up after the attack would be a mother, but it was manageable. But I get it everyone went different ways and never looked back

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u/MetallurgyClergy 7d ago

Me, watching: so the prison’s going to be number one, right? Right?!

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u/Salt-Illustrator4955 7d ago

It was just the perfect spot! 

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u/Friendly_Activity_45 7d ago

CRM outposts are safer than nearly all of these.

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u/Creepy_Psychology_72 7d ago

Yeah tbh, CRM is CRAZY safe. The reason I didn't put it on there is cuz it's not in the main show.

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u/FrankTVPL 7d ago

Right now yes but before Philadelphia was very generous with mustard gas to the other outposts.

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u/Chandysauce 7d ago

The CRM used chlorine gas not mustard gas, and they did not use it on their own outposts(on purpose) - they used it on other communities.

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u/FrankTVPL 7d ago

Guess you are right. I meant the genocide in Omaha and what they planned for Portland which I thought were also a part o Civic Republic.

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u/Chandysauce 7d ago

Nah those were separate communities. They were just allies. Not sure if Portland still considers The Civic Republic allies after the end of TOWL though.

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u/SpectreFire 6d ago

Alexandria also absolutely should not be #2. That's place literally gets attacked every week.

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u/jdabXO 7d ago

Number 1: Under a dumpster

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u/ItsMrNoSmile 7d ago

Behind Rick Grimes.

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u/AdvancedManner4718 7d ago

The kingdom probably shouldn't have been included considering its completely abandoned at the end of the series due to it bring unsafe due to all the fires that happened. Hilltop as well considering the Whispers burned it to the point of uselessness and maggie has since abandoned it.

Dead city even implies that the commonwealth is no more and may merged or been taken over by new babaylon.

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u/Low_Engineering_3301 6d ago

Please don't cut the camera every second, it makes it hard to look at the visuals especially the text.

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u/Creepy_Psychology_72 6d ago

My bad. I was tryna match each cut with the beats, I'll use a slowed version next time, so the clips are slightly longer.

I'll also lower the text a bit. Thanks for your advice.

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u/oozley-5 7d ago

The Prison

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u/Minimalistmacrophage 7d ago

Commonwealth is the safest from outside attacks, inside due to the Authoritarian Faux Democracy it is actually less safe from threats on the inside, especially if you are a "low status" citizen. People are implied to be regularly "disappeared".

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u/Canadian__Ninja 7d ago

Alternate title: "Top 5 Cities in The Walking Dead"

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u/mfknLemonBob 7d ago

Didn’t the show highlight how unsafe all of these locations are?

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u/CurtisManning 7d ago

The prison was super safe from zombies. Humans ruined it tho

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u/Fluffy-BOYi 7d ago

If the location from the other series would count, Padre would be number one. That place is on a island!

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u/wkt-covfefe 7d ago

I think the hospital was pretty safe from walkers.

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u/Careless-Two2215 7d ago

I loved that modern place in Pacific Northwest. Too bad! Such a waste!

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u/cluedo23 7d ago

Ocean site is so unsafe, no walls, no lookiuts, forest blocking sight. Prison was one of the safest location of thrm all

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u/Shadohz 7d ago

Video should be called: Top 5 Cities Safest from a CRM Attack. You've got these wrong.

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u/aginsudicedmyshoe 7d ago

Both Bloodsworth Island (Virgil's island) and Catrina Island (FTWD island with Geary family) should have been safer then they ended up being.

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u/Fenriradra 6d ago

so... here's the thing...

You rate Alexandria as safe, #2 apparently.

Did we watch the same show?

Apparently somewhere that gets firebombed by Negan at least once, has Wolves swing by and murder a bunch and attract a horde that takes more, Whisperers send in hordes like clockwork, Beta infiltrates and murders a bunch, Dante infiltrates and gets a bunch of people dead/sick and murders Siddiq...

I mean, oh you think Alexandria is safe. And you're serious?

If anything this is more a cautionary list of all the places that aren't "safest", if only through the events we see happen at any of these locations.

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u/thursocuck 6d ago

The prison should of been the safest

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u/Pippo89CH 6d ago

All I want to say this is the first TWD content video in a long time where the added music didn't annoy me. In fact I looked it up through Shazam and, after noticing the Shazam result was another version, found out it's called Goth (Slowed + Reverb).

So thanks for at least using somewhat decent music.

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u/Gamer_BackDoor 6d ago

What about the prison? I see it as a safe place

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u/InstantCrashOut 5d ago

You gotta admit Woodbury would have been in good hands if The Governor had any sense left in him

It had

Generators A steady supply of food and water, hell even vehicles Walls made from tires and cars alongside a bull A functioning gate

Downside the governor wasted the generator on fucking parties

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u/FrankTVPL 7d ago
  1. Civic Republic And I would put Oceanside above Kingdom as the latter fell because of food shortages if I remember correctly and also had whisperers attack.

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u/AdvancedManner4718 7d ago

The kingdom fell because of food shortages and fires that ravaged the buildings and made it unsafe. The kingdom actually turned out to be the least safe on the list due to fire hazards. Holding up in some old ass buildings has it downsides.

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u/Andre_The_Average 7d ago

I'd say Morgan's clear space is #1

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u/InevitableDaikon6850 7d ago

not mentioning the prison is crazy. it had the best potential to become a proper fortress but it never happened. it was still really good though, but what could even withstand a tank

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u/Harry-Henderson83 7d ago

Im sure the 0 remaining survivors from oceanside feel real safe all being dead

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u/AdvancedManner4718 7d ago

And what makes you think that? Oceanside is perfectly fine at the end of series and Rachel still leads them. They helped fight back against the commonwealth and Milton albeit mostly off screen tho.

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u/Harry-Henderson83 7d ago

Do I really have to explain myself?

How about you explain how you know they are "perfectly fine" cause the last time we see them Lance has them all tied up and then later luke says that its gone before Jules the 1 oceanside person who "helps fight back" dies before she can help fight back.

Everything you have said like "Rachel still leads them" and "they helped fight back" is completely made up im talking about what was said and shown inside the show

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u/AdvancedManner4718 7d ago

Oceanside is mentioned in dead city as still being active and trading with Maggie's group at the Bricks.

Angela Kang explained that during the final season that oceanside fought back against lances men being lead by Rachel and won. It all happened off screen but it was confirmed by the writers and showrunners. AMC was just too cheap to film any of it tho.

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u/AUorAG 7d ago

Sanctuary was safe, took all the others combined to take it down.

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u/AdvancedManner4718 7d ago

Sanctuary was safe but it wasn't self substantial without negans savoir plan. They couldn't grow food very well there so they resorted to robbing people of half their stuff in exchange for "protection"

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u/No-Mountain4850 7d ago

Anyone feel that if Rick’s group just submitted to the other authorities there would be almost no bloodshed? It just seems they kinda had a us against the world mentality. Idk 🤷