The Amish were Right

[awkward customer]

Why does everyone assume that the cities will be the worst places to be during a collapse/apocalypse situation?

Surely the general rule has been that during times of crisis and disintegration, the cities are fed while the countryside starves. Mao's Great Leap Forward cost the lives of 40 million Chinese peasants, while the cities were fed.  Ukrainian farmers died in millions from starvation while Moscow had plenty to eat.  During the famine which devastated Ireland, who starved?  The people in the cities?  Of course not.

Cities are where all the power is. Unless a complete collapse in which nothing ever works again is on the cards - and it rarely is - order and food supplies will be maintained where the power is - the cities.   

There's no one, right solution to this.  People who have survived such situations often put their survival down to a combination of luck and the kindness of strangers.   Russian Orthodoxy survived 70 years of communism, despite the best efforts of the Bolsheviks to destroy it.  To my knowledge, there were no successful Trad communities in Siberia.

Your examples are not indicative of an apocalypse situation.

But they are indicative of a situation in which a powerful elite attempts to impose a new order onto an existing one, as in Soviet Russia and Maoist China? 

If you believe we are facing the apocalypse, then surely the Globalist new order is being set up for the Antichrist right now.  And once he 'sits in the temple of God as if he were God', he will come for all those who oppose him, including the Amish, in which case it's down to the Grace of God who survives to welcome the Second Coming of Christ.

Or you might believe that we not in an apocalyptic situation and instead are facing economic collapse on a global scale, which will end eventually, just like the Great Depression did, in which case you might come through it unscathed, or might not, depending.

Either way, there's no right or wrong answer on the question of how best to survive other than trust in God.  It's His story.

Deus vult.