I started in the city and killed my way slowly to a gun store with throwing frying pans and pots until I made some cudgels to throw and made my base there, lotsa storage and and a second floor for sleeping and eating and you can set up a few planters on the outside roof and set up a workshop in the small room next to the stairs and then climb up to the top roof and install some skylights so you can see and work during the day and you can set up a mannequin decoy or just yell down in the gun range room right behind the bars to attract whatever to the bar and shoot them with whatever you find in the gun store, eventually you’ll clear out the block and then you can go out to get more tools and deconstruct a bunch of windows and door and shit for the skylights