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Not really an organized community, but I live in a private micro-village with everyone living in wood houses, surrounded by people who have their own gardens, grow and prepare herbs, feed the birds and stray cats. Most didn’t get jabbed. Lots of interesting folks thus far. Everyone’s minding their own business while being willing to share resources, knowledge and help each other out. Hope to orangepill some once we meat each other more towards the end of winter. All surrounded by nature. Unfortunately my family is barely on speaking terms. image
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It's just big private grounds with multiple houses on it. Some are permanent residents, some just visit over the weekends or holidays. It's not an official village. It used to be a "holiday village" up until the 70s or so until it got abandoned. The landlord then bought the land and all the decrepit houses on it and built everything up from the ground. Very cool guy. He's not even getting much out of it in terms of money.
I’m actually working on a family constitution right now, and part of a tight four generation clan. And most of the people in my circles are doing something similar. A few thoughts: It’s VERY hard to make this happen without it being strictly family. I’ve seen it fail in real time multiple times. In my constitution there is a clause that if an outsider wants to join the family he must change his last name. Obviously the pictures are ai. But I wouldn’t recommend living that close even with family. Everyone is going to have slightly different parenting styles, and if the cousins are hanging out together 24/7 that can cause tension, and they have a harder time focusing enough to do some school work. Walking distance is great, but not within eyesight imo.
While not to this degree, my inlaw family in Egypt lived like this for a while and we are trying to keep the trend alive. One side of the family built an apartment building, with a different unit for each family, and a garden on the roof. The other side lived in separate apartments, but they get together 5x to 10x per year. View quoted note →
The idea is compelling. But it’s only sustainable if different families of the same kin live there. Putting together a random number of small families (1-2 kids), just because everyone is a bitcoiner won’t work. People will spend there a nice 1 or 2 years and move on
I grew up in a setting with substantial resemblance to this. Colony in South America where the majority of the people were my cousins. Elements of Amish mixed in with a community setting. Hierarchy was largely determined by participation in the church. The intersection of religion and community governance were major factors in constantly changing tensions in the community. I know Amish here in the US who have some of these values. Sexual abuse is prevalent in these communities and is easily hidden so that's probably what I would fear the most in a community like this. I think shared values and a constitution for the community is more important than it being family. There needs to be a predetermined and well documented exit plan as people will at some point want to leave. Note that religion draws people together but often pushes them apart. Overall my perspective is this would be fantastic if done well. Individual property rights still need to be protected. AI would be extremely helpful in thinking of scenarios that should be documented in the constitution.
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We have 3 houses left on the property from when it was like this, my father's mother's grandfathers family came here like 150 years ago from Scotland. Family fell apart when father's mother's parents died. They were the glue, everyone went their own way after that.
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I am ! Land has been purchased and is currently being transformed into a usable homestead for my family. Currently suburban homesteading until the big move. We are making a lot of progress but still more to do before we can be on the homestead full time.