Divide and Build New: A community to discuss Parallel Society and Strategy
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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).