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Are there any retirement communes for us retirees? Remember communes? Grow your own food, folk music, living apart from this materialistic society... I'm ready to go back to the land.
Are there any retirement communes for us retirees? Remember communes? Grow your own food, folk music, living apart from this materialistic society... I'm ready to go back to the land.
You mean you want to do what we pay illegal aliens $6/hour to do?
You'll give up material things such as air conditioning, phones, a refrigerator?
There are some nudist parks that are not much different than communes. Its a closed in facility. They police the gate and nobody gets in they don't want in. They have common pool, meetings, recreation activities, clubs. They have a great time. In the winter its mostly retired folks. Its very safe and very much a live and let live environment, but they are also careful to weed out certain undesirables. They do a background check and if you don't pass, don't behave, don't pay your feels, or disrupt the place by some crazy behavior, you're out.
Until I learned more. People didn't want to do their fair share, some were lazy, people didn't agree on how to do things. There was no one in charge so some people just sat around and smoked dope while others did the work.
But I'd still be interested in something on that idea--with guidelines. OMG, is that an HOA where people buy shares? lol Seems like somebody would have to be in charge to take care of the slackers and when someone's in charge they have power and power corrupts. What a pessimistic attitude, eh? I'm not for co-housing either for very much the same reasons. Some will do all the work while others cheat their way through. You start out choosing people who are good and who get along well but they end up getting replaced with lesser souls.
If someone can think of a utopia for older adults that would work out, then I'd be all for it. We'd need to have caretakers in place though--we're not gonna stay young and strong forever.
I've seen communes in Mexico where 1 works and 19 siesta. For real. In the 80's. Had a friend down there that pointed it out. Group security is needed but sharing growing the food is doomed to fail. Read early American history and how each winter there was death from starvation. Everyone seems to have different talents and gifts. We want to be rural but be our own bosses. We have done all the growing and processing for storage and would barter with neighbors but not just pass it out to those to good to get their hands dirty.
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