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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jun 21, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:

> My husband says the drawback is the lack of complete privacy.

Your husband is not a homesteader. The reason a homesteader does not  
fit in an intentional community is because of the wide streak of  
independence. I may be poor and this land may be poor, but by the  
gods, it is my land and I do whatever I jolly well choose to do with  
it. I plant what I choose to plant and when I choose to plant it.  
Don't trick me with that consensus stuff. Just leave me be.

Which is just the opposite of how an IC works.