Inside the Luxury Survival Community Falling Apart From Within

Survive the end of the world in style, that was the offer from an American entrepreneur who built a luxury bunker community on an abandoned military base in South Dakota. The complex offers roughly 200-square-meter shelters on 99-year leases for amounts reaching up to $55,000. The bomb has not fallen yet, and the zombies have not arrived either, but what is making life miserable for residents for now are ordinary neighbor disputes, property taxes, sewage, a dog roaming freely. Some have ended up in court, in some cases guns were drawn, and the promises of a pool bunker and a restaurant bunker have, for now, remained on paper.

Igloo, South Dakota. 575 concrete bunkers with blast-proof steel doors, arranged in row after row, peek out of the grass like Hobbit holes ready for the end of the world. The compound, located inside a former ammunition storage site, is marketed as the