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If you find one, please let me know.

Community is one of the important factors for us in relocating and  
it's something that's impossible to nail down over the Net.

Wasn't it Ithaca that instituted a shared risk insurance plan any  
resident could buy into? It was a long time ago that I read about this.
I was thrilled by the idea, a community of individuals banded together  
to help each other. You can create a lot of art or organic food or  
care giving if you're not working
40 hours a week just to hang onto your health insurance.

Did any of you read  "Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in  
America" , by Barbara Ehrenreich? Here's a review by Naomi Klein:  
""Drunk on dot-coms and day trading,
America has gone blind to the downside of its great prosperity. In   
Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich expertly peels away the layers of self- 
denial, self-interest, and self-protection
that separate the rich from the poor, the served from the servers, the  
housed from the homeless. This brave and frank book is ultimately a  
challenge to create a less
 divided society."

The book is ten years old now but things are not getting any better.


Cheers


On Feb 28, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Gene GeRue wrote:

> On Feb 28, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:
>
> > I have two friends (separate individuals not living together) who
> > are not
> > good at gardening and thus have given it up for things they are good
> > at
> > doing and a better use of their time. They both say they are "Grower
> > Supporters."
>
> And they are needed by those who grow for a living.
>
> I've often mused on the tension, the dichotomy with homesteading and
> community. If everyone is self-reliant and largely self-sufficient,
> then we need each other less. Of course there are still those crafts
> and skills that most of us are not good at or even much interested in
> doing.
>
> Anyone know of a study or a book that explores the effect on community
> that self-reliance creates?
>
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