Assuming your favorite apocalypse fantasy setting doesn’t involve cities getting nuked, that’s the place hole up with your hoard of food.
A cottage in the woods stands out. It’s attractive. A boarded up apartment doesn’t, isn’t.
Once the bulk of the starving and murdering is done with, you can go find yourself a nice cottage that didn’t get shot up too badly.
Nothing in there says the President can’t have protestors shot, the press arrested, and religions taxed. It’s legal as long as Congress doesn’t create a law permitting it.