Hey Paul, this is amazing! Thank you. I love the way you've laid things out and and described so many potential options. The dream of community living is so real and common, and yet the risk and sacrifice of jumping ship or making huge life shifts is difficulty as certain stages of life (we have young kids and location based jobs). I love the invitation to think more creatively!
I thought this post would be about Boulder... and I live there so I was curious, haha, I got more than I bargained for :-)
Hey Paul, this is amazing! Thank you. I love the way you've laid things out and and described so many potential options. The dream of community living is so real and common, and yet the risk and sacrifice of jumping ship or making huge life shifts is difficulty as certain stages of life (we have young kids and location based jobs). I love the invitation to think more creatively!
I thought this post would be about Boulder... and I live there so I was curious, haha, I got more than I bargained for :-)
This has always been my “dream house” more than any mcmansion. When I left New York I left living my near my closest friends and I’ve been scheming how to convince them all to buy land and build a development ever since. One day I will get the sales pitch right 😂
I appreciate hearing about these housing innovations by intentional community builders. It's exciting to see these movements developing. Though these examples seemed to be oriented around younger generations (than me), which makes sense. If you run across a project catering to the life phase of a boomer, let me know.
Well, I have absolutely zero attraction to that alternative. Some of these other examples are quite intriguing. The trick is having a whole family system with older children embedded in our current city. But if I could convince us all to go . . .
Loved this one Paul. I've been researching this topic a lot and there are two places I came across near Atlanta that look promising. Check out Trilith & Serenbe.
Oooo I will take a look! Funnily enough I just sent a note to my partner this morning appreciating our location here in Roswell (metro Atlanta), but we want more friends to be nearby. :-)
It’s fascinating to see community based living taking shape by people coming at it from the tech world rather than the co-op/‘intentional community’ world. There is a 100+ year history of housing cooperatives in the US, and thousands of informal housing co-ops in the Bay Area particularly which follow the Rochdale Cooperative Principles. For students specifically, there is NASCO with hundreds of cooperatively run houses in college towns all over the US and Canada. There are also tons of intentional communities all over the world, many which welcome short term stays. Again, it’s fascinating to see a new crop of people try to solve for the same problems (a DAO is basically a co-op!), and so much room for cross-collaboration. There are many untapped resources that could support such endeavors, like land trusts which reduce the cost of large tracts of land, etc, which are well known in the co-op world but essentially unknown by the crypto people entering the field. I’m glad you’re getting into this, I’m so here for it!
Thanks for this Paul, fascinating read and great to hear your perspective on it. I'm curious to know if there's anything like this happening in the UK, and if not, what the restrictions around it might be...
It's cool to see a similarly nomadic life being lived out there — I've spent my entire 20s moving and notably over the past 6 years since meeting my husband (2017 also!), we've lived in 28 different places for at least a week across 6 continents (and with 30 different people). Something we're actively exploring right now is what 'settling down' (i.e. not living out of a suitcase and thinking about kids) looks like for us, without defaulting to the typical cultural model. A big piece for me is continuity in community, and I'm realising more and more that I might need to be the one to create that, rather than to hope I magically find one.
I'm excited to dig into the resources and hear how yours and Angie's journey continues to unfold on this path.
Yeah. I have realized the same- I need to make it happen. But also now with a kid I am finding a lot more from our little unit than needing a vibrant social life. Despite this it’s very clear having other parents nearby living weird lives would be huge. I potentially want to do an open casual “pathless month” in the coming year. Stay tuned.
Paul, loving this so much! Recently did a podcast with Phil from Live Near Friends, Jon from Cabin, Erin from Culdesac as well as Diana Lind who wrote Brave New Home. https://open.spotify.com/episode/76vsmqTHzhcWdorNfFU7dn?si=52315f5d21964490&nd=1&dlsi=64523372f7654f3c
Currently building: www.allonething.xyz and would love to connect! ck@allonething.xyz
oh excellent - listening
this is cool - do you have a non spotify link? cant find it anywhere
Hey Paul, this is amazing! Thank you. I love the way you've laid things out and and described so many potential options. The dream of community living is so real and common, and yet the risk and sacrifice of jumping ship or making huge life shifts is difficulty as certain stages of life (we have young kids and location based jobs). I love the invitation to think more creatively!
I thought this post would be about Boulder... and I live there so I was curious, haha, I got more than I bargained for :-)
Hey Paul, this is amazing! Thank you. I love the way you've laid things out and and described so many potential options. The dream of community living is so real and common, and yet the risk and sacrifice of jumping ship or making huge life shifts is difficulty as certain stages of life (we have young kids and location based jobs). I love the invitation to think more creatively!
I thought this post would be about Boulder... and I live there so I was curious, haha, I got more than I bargained for :-)
This has always been my “dream house” more than any mcmansion. When I left New York I left living my near my closest friends and I’ve been scheming how to convince them all to buy land and build a development ever since. One day I will get the sales pitch right 😂
I’ve always dreamt of selfishly having all my friends live in one neighborhood. I want to share this with them so we can get started on that dream
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I appreciate hearing about these housing innovations by intentional community builders. It's exciting to see these movements developing. Though these examples seemed to be oriented around younger generations (than me), which makes sense. If you run across a project catering to the life phase of a boomer, let me know.
Honestly I think many are open to and would love to include you!
The bigger challenge I see is outcompeting the standard Florida retirement community path.
Well, I have absolutely zero attraction to that alternative. Some of these other examples are quite intriguing. The trick is having a whole family system with older children embedded in our current city. But if I could convince us all to go . . .
I did find the one week stay at the popup village very energizing. Hope to do it for a month in the future.
Could be an easier option than permanent.
I did find the one week stay at the popup village very energizing. Hope to do it for a month in the future.
Very cool. Will check these resources out. Also I think this is why a lot of it is already happening ing in SF too
Loved this one Paul. I've been researching this topic a lot and there are two places I came across near Atlanta that look promising. Check out Trilith & Serenbe.
Oooo I will take a look! Funnily enough I just sent a note to my partner this morning appreciating our location here in Roswell (metro Atlanta), but we want more friends to be nearby. :-)
https://trilithrealestate.com/
https://www.serenbe.com/
funny how neither of those sites show a map or prominently show their address, but I eventually found their location relative to ATL
It’s fascinating to see community based living taking shape by people coming at it from the tech world rather than the co-op/‘intentional community’ world. There is a 100+ year history of housing cooperatives in the US, and thousands of informal housing co-ops in the Bay Area particularly which follow the Rochdale Cooperative Principles. For students specifically, there is NASCO with hundreds of cooperatively run houses in college towns all over the US and Canada. There are also tons of intentional communities all over the world, many which welcome short term stays. Again, it’s fascinating to see a new crop of people try to solve for the same problems (a DAO is basically a co-op!), and so much room for cross-collaboration. There are many untapped resources that could support such endeavors, like land trusts which reduce the cost of large tracts of land, etc, which are well known in the co-op world but essentially unknown by the crypto people entering the field. I’m glad you’re getting into this, I’m so here for it!
Paul, this is indeed mini-wiki on the topic. Thanks for putting it together like this.
you might want to look at Boundless Life (www.boundless.life) a live-work community for digital nomads with kids.
Thanks for this Paul, fascinating read and great to hear your perspective on it. I'm curious to know if there's anything like this happening in the UK, and if not, what the restrictions around it might be...
It's cool to see a similarly nomadic life being lived out there — I've spent my entire 20s moving and notably over the past 6 years since meeting my husband (2017 also!), we've lived in 28 different places for at least a week across 6 continents (and with 30 different people). Something we're actively exploring right now is what 'settling down' (i.e. not living out of a suitcase and thinking about kids) looks like for us, without defaulting to the typical cultural model. A big piece for me is continuity in community, and I'm realising more and more that I might need to be the one to create that, rather than to hope I magically find one.
I'm excited to dig into the resources and hear how yours and Angie's journey continues to unfold on this path.
Yeah. I have realized the same- I need to make it happen. But also now with a kid I am finding a lot more from our little unit than needing a vibrant social life. Despite this it’s very clear having other parents nearby living weird lives would be huge. I potentially want to do an open casual “pathless month” in the coming year. Stay tuned.
Ooooh a pathless month sounds intriguing, keep me posted 🙌
I've loved the idea of Culdesac and am curious to learn more about these others.
Bald Head Island NC is also carless and interesting (but expensive and inconveniently on an island).