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Re:Esmeralda by orwin on Friday October 18, 2024 @08:03AM (#41878599)
Honestly, i've lived on and off a hippie commune in Europe for four years (18-22), and spent a month in one in the Appalachia (not during winter, so i had a limited view of the living conditions), they are good place to live in general (when you're young at least, but i know a half dozen of oldtimers). I've experienced a great deal, discovered a lot about what i like and not, and overall had a lot of fun, and a boatful of good memories (and i have _great_ parents and siblings, so it's not in contrast of anything).

Those memories really helped later in life, so if you find one and like the people there, maybe just try it? It's fun. And if more young guys tried, i guarantee the incel culture would disappear.

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Re:Esmeralda by imiric on Saturday October 19, 2024 @05:49AM (#41886809)
I don't doubt that these places can be educational and fun. I'm in complete agreement with the idea that we lose a sense of community and humanity in large cities.

What I scoff at is when communes and villages are marketed as being the greatest place to live in. Particularly when it comes from upper-class urbanites who are oblivious of the challenges of this kind of lifestyle.

But maybe I'm wrong in prejudging this particular case. That's just the impression I got from the website and the exotic sounding name. It's very similar to the show "The Curse" which satirizes these people.

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Re:Esmeralda by orwin on Saturday October 19, 2024 @10:09AM (#41887849)
I'm not from a city, and I would argue that you lose the sense of community and humanity even in small village if you don't get out of your own way.

I'm not as critical. It seems like a 'scam' at worse ('reality embellishments' rather than a true scam), a nice place at best, and a fun experience in most cases. I do not think those challenges are particularly hard (especially because California weather is very soft, and winter is always the harsher time in communes in my experience). I'd say 'let them try'.

But I get your point, nowadays peddling this kind of imagery feels scammy.

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