Divide and Build New: A community to discuss Parallel Society and Strategy
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People pooling resources and buying land cooperatively is fraught with big problems down the road 10 or 40 years later, I've seen it happen.
This is actually a pretty good report on how it went in the last cycle during the back to the land movement of the 60s and 70s, and there were plenty of other places like it. Not being able to acquire title to sell and get out of a cooperative like that is a giant problem.
https://www.gq.com/story/californias-vanishing-hippie-utopias
Not that you want to be a hippie, but the problems remain the same.
I think it's probably a better idea to buy a place/some land in a small town community that already exists and has basic amenities.
It's a fair point. An idea I think is a bit neglected in our circles is to find some already existing town in a desirable area with a population of 100 or so (many exist in the middle of the country) and just settle there and integrate into the population. Think The Free State Project except on a much smaller scale. And you don't have to worry about building all of the infrastructure from scratch.
We used to drink with a friendly old geezer I really liked who was from Poplar Bluff Missouri. It sounded idyllic, he came from a farm family, so I looked it up. Typical 1920s/30s grid built little town with very productive farmland; topsoil said to be 30 ft. deep.
Those kinds of places are still comparatively cheap and the neighbors are already country.
Yeah there's a ton of those little towns speckled throughout the middle of the country. I had no idea until I took a couple road trips through the northern Midwest last year and drove by a bunch of them.
And they're friendly, and all they want is to continue doing their thing without everything changing on them.
I grew up near there back in the 80s. It was still pretty idyllic then, too, if you didn't mind a bit of effort on your part (bailing hay, fishing, etc).