Hi Brian
Thanks for getting back to me. I was actually asking how I could post on the "introduction" platform, and I asked you as you were a recent poster there.
On the topic of intentional community, I did live in one in NZ for seven years, the last 2 as the leader of the group that took over after the "guru' was sent to jail for miss behaving with kids. I have also studied the subject extensively , with one 3 week visit to Twin oaks in Central Virginia 25v years ago. The best way to describe life in an intentional community is the opening line of "A tail of two Cities", which was "It was the best of times and the worst of times"
The situation in the world today makes me convinced even more that with the coming demise of the financial order that was created at "Breton Woods" in 1944 to control the worlds financial system (after WW2)is now terminal and any one relying on it when it goes who is not in a self sufficient bunker will be in real trouble. I am 75 and have traveled much around the world over the last 50 Years, and the signs are every where.
My advice to you is, although what you are attempting to do is admirable is really difficult to achieve, as you are already finding out.
One of the things I have done was run a cheap backpacker G/H in Vang Vieng Laos , for 4 years 2010-14. Many young travelers would ask me if there was one piece of advice, what would it be. My advice was and still is "find your tribe" which is what you need to do. There are many who are trying to set up similar situation to you, and If I have learnt anything from the half dozen or so communities I visited in different parts of the world was that the thing that holds them together is not the scenery, but the cohesion created out of a desire to work together.
I am happy to keep in communication with you in the future on any subject. For the record I am still in Lao living on some land with my extended Lao family(best structure for harmony) running a mixed operation (plant/animal) which work well together. I finally settled for Lao as it has many attributes not found in many places in the world today. Low population density, community cohesion, low violence. few rules on what you can build out of what material, minimal storm weather issues, simple visa rules (although not cheap) and most important of all zero water shortages.
Chris
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