If it was done as a worker’s co-op it should be possible to use the idea to avoid the worst apsects of capitalist immmiseration through group cost savings. Living with a group of politically like minded people seems attractive. Allowing comrades you live with to hold you accountable for your organizing, lifestyle and productivity would probably be a positive thing for everyone here tbh. Am guilty. A lot more theory would be read in general lol.

I mean, it’s probably better suited to single people that would be willing to relocate, but it seems surprising that it’s not a bigger thing, especially with the cost of accomodation.

Got this fantasy of a derelict office block at the end of a cycle path, say 40mins cycle from a city to get the cheaper real estate, converted for communal living.

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I like this a lot tbh. You sound like you’ve got some experience?

Saw a youtube video about a couple who are living on an oil rig lifeboat, it looked great. The realities of living on the water would be made easier by living in a group for sure.

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I have zero experience, I’ve just been thinking about it lately as a form of escapism lol. i’ve been going a bit nuts fighting my way through school and it makes me want a simpler life.

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It’s an extremely attractive and doable fantasy. Read about a group of people who bought a plot together and put tiny houses on it, with a comunal workshop, kitchen, garden and other things. Something like that not far from a city seems very achievable.

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bet the cost of living was cheap as hell 😍

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