Born and raised in Tennessee, a good place to be from, far from. My mother lives there! I now live just outside North Pole, Alaska. Me the wife and youngest son. Two and a half miles from Santa Clause house.
As for a stalker, NO PROBLEM, a one way hike in Grizzly country and it's all over. I live in Grizzly country. Have two or three pass through the back yard every year.
Last stalker made a near fatal mistake, came into the house while I was gone. Wife shot him. Load of bird shot both thighs and groin. Last we heard he had been locked up as a nut case, and shipped back to Pennsylvania, where he had family.