hybridzizi:

nextworldover:

luminousalicorn:

In which I mumble about wanting to smush more people I like closer together.

yes! let’s make a little rationalist community where families can live and everyone’s not all crammed into the same single house! let’s buy out an apartment building and move everyone in!

Things I Think Would Be Nice To Have:

• basic units of 3ish bedrooms clustered around smallish living areas w/ basic kitchen + bathroom
  
• larger communal area for hosting Events
  
• larger fancy communal kitchen for cooking large group meals
  
• communal outdoor area w/ firepit and garden (particularly an edible garden with herbs, veggies, fruit trees, etc)
• dedicated co-working area (with a library!)
• guest rooms or units where visitors can stay
• bike/carshares

It would be cool to do it as a co-op situation and maybe rent out the guest units/event space (on AirBnb?) for extra income, to help bolster those who can’t afford as much rent?

This is basically my ideal living situation that you’re describing. I would like to add exercise equipment to the list of things it would be nice to have. (Only slightly related: if we got some kind of big building I doubt anyone would stop you from riding a bike in the halls)

Also, my mom suggests coming to Utah and buying an old mormon church. Of course that plan would require moving to Utah, so…

hey yo please read up on the history of communal living before you do this, there are best practices and known failure modes and subtle differences in founding design can matter a lot

American communalism comes in waves, the 1960s was the last, there was a big one in the 1840s. Tend to be thinky types into human perfectibility and complex sexual geometry, you guys fit in