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Top Comments: Post-Apocalypse HOA Squabbles [1]

['Tara The Antisocial Social Worker', 'Dan K', 'Greg Dworkin']

Date: 2026-06-03  

Rich people are scrambling to set up bunkers for possible societal collapse, whether from war, pandemic, or regular people finally picking up pitchforks & torches. But there have been a few complications.

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Plans for post-apocalypse bunkers tend to hit the same stumbling block: other people are still going to be a necessity. (I believe this explains part of the billionaire obsession with AI.) At the Vivos xPoint community in South Dakota, designed for 1,000 residents, they’re already feeling the strain:

Only a third of the individual properties — which can be bought for up to $55,000 plus rent and service fees — are occupied at the moment, according to the WSJ. However, altercations and even lawsuits are starting to rack up, long before owners are forced to take shelter in case of an actual “extinction event.” Disputes are piling up, per the newspaper, from lawsuits over filled septic systems to complaints over off-leash dogs biting residents. During one particularly hairy incident, a man who moved into one of the units with his wife, his daughter, and her four children, pulled a gun on a Vivos contractor who had pulled up with a front-end loader to his bunker.

You’ll be stunned to learn that the people selling the properties don’t sound stellar either:

Another lawsuit, filed in September by more than 100 tenants, argued that Vivos had failed to provide them with livable dwellings and properly maintain them. Vivos also promised to build out a gym, restaurant, and general store, among other lavish amenities, none of which have been completed.

When you’re dealing with hucksters, sooner or later everything becomes the Fyre Festival. But maybe the Vivos residents can move to one of those “floating paradises” that libertarians have promised repeatedly over the years.

Over the years, every attempt has turned into a hilarious disaster, involving hurricanes, Papa Doc, sunken pirate treasure, the lost secret to immortality, Vanuatuan cult uprisings, llama-based gunplay, and just a whole bunch of financial fraud. Who could have guessed that trying to build the city from Bioshock in real life wouldn’t always go well?

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