Divide and Build New: A community to discuss Parallel Society and Strategy
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Interesting. I've been looking for something similar to 200acres for some time.
(r/200acres: It was a sub about anti-modernist homesteading. BANNED)
Interesting. That sounds similar to what me and rightsidefunding are doing in the new sub. I'm one of the mods for this forum. This is definitely good material to discuss and expand upon there.
Yeah the original reason IIRC for the "200 arces" bit was that a bunch of people would pool their resources to buy the 200 acre plot and have a self-sufficient community of independent homesteaders
Then the reason it was banned IIRC was that sometimes it was mentioned that some of those communities would be white and ethnically homogeneous, which of course is a big no-no on reddit.
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.