10-13 yrs from now, please read. Looking ahead as a college students rn, open to all, dm me

Hello there, 10-13 years from now is a long time, and that’s because I’m young, and a just entering college student. I am looking ahead and already planning an intentional communities with friends, but not a commune, nor cult, nor anything with a power dynamic. Everyone owns their own land, at worst it is just friends living close to each other, but at best it will be a thriving community. Most of my friends interested in this will have remote work jobs like digital nomad types, which allows the flexibility, or are learning a technical profession. Either way, I only just learned that the timer “intentional community” is what I was describing all along. I have been thinking about this since I was 16 with friends at High School and none of us ever knew what to call it. But that describes it perfectly. We are considering the minesoda, Wisconsin, and upper peninsula or Michigan area because of the relatively dry climate with less mosquitos in the winter than normal, whilst being close to the cnaadian border, offering much natural beauty in that area, with little to no farmland being utelized, meaning no chemicals flying over, with lots of huuuuuuge swaths of land being offered at 1-2K per acre of wooded or partially wooded land that’s complexity untouched or barely touched. Because living in the middle of nowhere can be a challange an intentional living community would be best, people that split up the land legally and buy it from the original listing each separately their chunk. This is fair, and everyone has control over their own land.

If you are interested in joining our planning committee as we like to call it, 10-13 years from now is a long time, which leaves e eryone plenty of time to develop he skills we need. This way skills can be divied up amongst one another. Because we’d be moving into the middle of nowhere where even a school would be far away and maybe 15-20 other random locals are living with 10-20 miles of you, the community we are planning to bring along would be rather large (20-70 families/andor people), but that wouldn’t mean it;s crowded since everyone gets upwards of an acre, some already saying they want 5 or 6. Paths would be made with a community center (a church/synagoge with the duel use of a community gathering center) somewhere in the middle. Some want to be off grid, some want to be on grid, but htat’s fine. Some within our current planning committee are Christian’s, others are Jews, and we have one Hindi and one Buddhist as well, but no Muslims. We just want to live in peace amongst each other, no forced conversions, religious guilt trippings or anything like that, just respect. In the duel use religious and community building would also be no images, so all worship that requires images would need to be held at home, however there would be a space for quiet with next to nothing in it, a small room for meditation, silent prayer, reading, sleeping, etc, but silently, unless there’s an emergency this is meant to be designated as a sound proof room designated for the silent/and or sacred. There would ofcourse be another room for Saturday and Sunday services, and another separate room for all other community events.

You get the idea by now, the community is more meant as safety from some type of”strange characters” out in the country side that might not be so welcoming to one individual or two individual families that are Jewish, black, etc, or a different type of Christian, and many of us are afraid to move into the country side alone, so we want to take our friends with us so we don’t get hoodwinked by a kkk affiliate. Instead of barging in in on some already existing village, we are planning to just plop down our own little village/community. Safety and respect is really the number one concern, and safety in numbers.

If you are interested you’d ofoucrse want to meet (digitally) the other people in the planning comity for a vibe check, so to speak. We have all types of people in here, atheist Jews, religious Jews, relgular atheists, a fewer Catholics, a bunch of Protestants, one Hindu and one Buddhist. Right now we are about 20 ish guys, no gals yet, but that’s mainly because I have only drawn upon my own friends group up to this point, which is majority High Schoolers and College students.


We want a safe place to raise our children, that;s not in the dirty crime ridden city, a place to home and or charter school them, a place where a big garden and lots of land is cheap. Where parks are nearby, but where we still feel safe. Some of us want to full time homestead, others of us want no garden but just to be next to other gardens and have a fully on grid house away from the big city with a home office and remote work digital job. At the end of the day, we want to live around people we can trust, and share mutual respect for one another with. Some of us are self admitted hippies, and others are quite old head conservatives. We have some liberals, moderates, independents,  libertarians, and conservatives in the mix, but no extremists since those tend not to befirend non extremists in the first place. We look past politics, as we can respect each others rights, at the end of the day a common purpose unites us, and that’s why I have such a friend group. We can discuss things and disagree heavily and not storm away angrily but laugh it off. The gender ratio will even itself out once the bros get married to gals with similar goals and values.

If anyone in the planning committee changes their mind, that’s fine. No commitment until you put your money down and are planning after all. Right now just interest. Far away anyway. But we know what we want to do with our fitiure. But most of us need time to develop the skills we need until then, save up money, or get our education so we can do remote digital work.

If this sounds like something youn are interested in, in terms of:
the type of people (look above) & goal,
region (UP Michigan, Wisconsin, Minesoda),
and time line (10-13 years)
And job availability (most of us some part time digital or remote work job, and some full time or part time homesteading)

Then let me know. Give a little intro here that you are fine being public, or dm me through here, though not quite sure how it works, but I’;l see it, and then we can talk more. I have, along with the others, tons of ideas, but what I wrote here is what we know so far. Hope to see you in the comments and/or DMs! Within 10-13 years from now we should be able to get that max goal of 70 people/families! (But again, reminder, spread out, not encroaching upon each other, not going over Dunbar number)

Quick personal note. I plan to buy 2 to 3 acres and build a wofati-style home or similar. Likely not fully earthen. Interior insulation will probably use hay bales or other natural materials. I’m planning on integrating systems like a thermal mass heater, willow feeder, and other off-grid features from this site. I’ve been studying the book and collecting resources for over a year.

I play a few instruments, I’m learning two languages in college, and I read a lot. Most of my friends involved have skills or interests just as practical or more so. If this aligns with your goals, reach out.