I’m no longer sure if I’m being ironic about this hippie commune on the site of the old Pfizer in Ann Arbor, or not. This happens fairly frequently (the whole ‘am I being ironic? I no longer know?’ thing), so I’m not too worried about it.<\/p>\n
annacallahan<\/a> alerted me to the presence of a co-housing<\/a> community in Massachusetts, called mosaic commons<\/a>. Co-housing is basically an attempt to do the commune lifestyle without the really annoying parts that make it always<\/em> fail. You own your own house and a share of some large-ish common facilities. It’s a neighborhood association on steroids.<\/p>\n I like the large scale, because it would enable more significant projects … including a theatre, livestock, independent power generation, etc. Please note that I am deliberately only looking at what I would like right now. No research has been done on whether the stodgy old men who control everything would permit any of this silliness. <\/p>\n I suppose that what I really want is to found a small town, or perhaps an island nation. As Hobbit houses are fully permitted, but when the walls slide in on you and your cat gets moldy … don’t come crying to me. I’m using concrete and drywall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m no longer sure if I’m being ironic about this hippie commune on the site of the old Pfizer in Ann Arbor, or not. This happens fairly frequently (the whole ‘am I being ironic? I no longer know?’ thing), so I’m not too worried about it.<\/p>\n