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I want a community based living. Where everyday a few people take on community based chores like cooking for the community. Cleaning up. Etc etc.
Everyone knows everyone's name
Parenting is done community.
Only a few select people actually 'go to work' to earn money. Everyone else just helps out in the community.
Instead of having 100 individual dinners. It's all done in one place. Thus saving fuel and time.
Etc etc.
I'll never live to see anything like that unless I go join some nomads.
Sounds like my version of hell. I want to be left alone to do the things I like, my way.
If I had to eat Franks idea of spaghetti every second week, or deal with old Beatrice telling me I missed a spot on the window ledge where a mote of dust had landed, I’d kill myself right there on the spot.
I’m fine with community, but I don’t want it forced into my personal space.
Yeah same
Pretty much sums up my opinion of the arrangement.
You want to live in a commune. Those exist.
Sounds similar to a commune; they exist. Typically everyone works in the commune. The living conditions don't look "great," but I've lived in worse conditions. I think the two biggest ones in the U.S. are Twin Oaks and and East Winds. There are many other types of intentional communities, and there are many around the world: https://icmatch.org/community-types-2/ https://www.ic.org/directory/common-place-land-cooperative/
There were some in New York (Housing Cooperatives) that were built slightly before the great depression so went under pretty quick. They also involved owning your unit after a certain number of years. Wish they’d have had a fighting chance, I truly think people need community to live well and condensing work like childcare, food prep, and laundry (tasks that scale really easily*) make life easier for everyone.
We should build that. Make it not based on biological family so you aren't stuck with whatever assholes you're related to and let people leave at will and join at any time with a two thirds vote of existing members
I think there are a few communities like this still in Belarus (not joking btw, i remember hearing of one built around a tractor company from the Soviet days)
It’s a commune, they exist in the US but are usually restricted entry.
I’ve had a vision for a while of a community of tiny homes that are basically for sleeping and studying/entertaining oneself. There would be a shared cooking/dining area, and a shared shower area similar to Japanese public baths (shower and wash yourself in a stall, soak in a hot tub once you’re clean.)
dorms.
We need to build these visions