Maybe I'll stay on the East Coast after all

Scientists determine the nation’s safest places to ride out a zombie apocalypse - The Washington Post

"The model has several levers to dictate how quickly the outbreak moves. One is the ‘bite-to-kill’ ratio, which measures how often a person would kill a zombie vs. how often a zombie would infect a human. Also, population centers are fixed — meaning if you live in Chicago when an outbreak strikes, you can’t escape."