Unrehabilitated consumer driven couple seeks a place to call home in the Western Washington area. We toured a few IC's while we were on a 12 month trip around the country, but were found wanting and not invited back into the hippie fold. Do we need training on how to live a life in tune with anything but the number of Facebook likes our witty posts get, yes, but I like to think we're willing to learn. We recently sold our house and most of the things inside it with the express hope of living a simpler life. I am desperate to trade in my cubicle for a patch of green pasture and the freedom to roam it. We have a couple of friends who are on the same path, or are at least heading in the same general direction. Who knew that simplifying would be so complicated.
If anyone has ideas on a property that would work for 3-6 families, we would appreciate it.
I would love to just buy raw land, but the legal hoops and zoning intricacies to build multiple homes on one property are beyond my limited understanding. Also what an Intentional community is seems to vary widely, from $400K lots in a "farm", to mud huts in an abandoned salt mine where you must have dirty feet and sing a song to the Goddess of food before being allowed to eat. I'm hoping for a simple way, an affordable living style that has room for the occasional iPhone or fashionable scarf. Houses that are modest and without pretense, but where you don't have to poop in a bucket. Is there a middle ground between the extremes?
Well, I've rambled enough for now.
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