Looking for like-minded people to buy property with

I'm from western VA, and lived in WV, and western NC for many years. I moved southeast for a few years to take care of family, and now I'm ready to move back to the mountains. The affordable housing and property that used to be in those areas are now triple the price. My husband and I have considered if we could find the right people, maybe we could all put money down on property or fixer up housing together and help each other along the way.

It would be less like communal living and more like good neighbors.

Places were interested in: eastern WV, western VA, western NC, eastern TN.

A little bit about us: I'm a practicing herbalist, played drums in metal bands for 10 years, like to garden, DIY, have residential electric skills, and pretty good in basic trade skills. My husband is a tattoo artist, has good plumbing skills, pretty good basic trade skills, he's very laid back, born and raised in the Appalachian mountains. We're super down to earth, and pretty like minded to Appalachia folk, upcycle, use what we have, get creative, appreciate the land, and so on. We're not pretentious about our lifestyle, we don't tell anyone how to live their lives and appreciate when others do the same, kind of have a live and let live attitude towards many things as long as there's mutual respect. We're easy to get a long with and looking for others that are easy to get along with as well.

I know that's some pretty random info but no matter I say, it's pretty difficult to give anyone a sense of who someone is until you really talk to them for a while ya know?

Anyway, we'd definitely want to do things the right way, to make sure things are written up right with whoever we'd go in. Both having legal ownership of their part of the property. Things have gotten so expensive and I thought hey, it's a shot in the dark, but maybe someone out there is having the same issue.

I'm thinking it would be awesome to have like minded neighbors, we could help each other build, get set up, have a shared garden, but also have our own space and privacy. I'm also interested in permaculture and raising animals for food, definitely something it would be great to do together with neighbors.

This isn't something we're doing right now, but hopefully within the next year or so. If this is something your thinking about, feel free to let me know! Thanks!