What would your utopia look like?

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i would like to have a property of about 24710 acres (10000 hectares) that was comprised of rolling hills with meadowlands surrounded and interlaced by many stretches of bushland (forest).
i would like to have a house on it that is on the apex of the highest hill on the property. i would like for the rear of the house to be adjacent to bushland, and the front of the house to be adjacent to rolling meadows bounded far away by more bushland.

i would not have livestock or anything.
i would have possums and wild animals and birds that live in the bushland behind who me visit me every day, and i would have the vast uninterrupted vista out the front of my house of rolling meadows. i guess i would have to get cows or else the meadows would grow into unkempt thickets.

i would like to generate enough energy from solar power to not only supply my needs, but also enough to return much of it to the grid and get a healthy income from it.

i would like to discover a way to maximize the amount of energy that can be captured and stored from the sun.

i would like to have about $2 million in the bank earning 7% interest. (i was earning 7% 2 years ago (i do not yet have 2 million in the bank though))

i would not have many needs that take money to fulfill, so 140k per annum is ok for not doing anything to earn it, and also not having any requirements that cost that much.

i would like to have an entertainment room where i watch movies in a cinematic scale on a very large and crystal clear screen in a darkened sound proof and light proof room in total comfort.

i would like to have a "recording studio" set of rooms in my house on that property.
i would have a control room with a 64 track digital desk, and a recording room for performances.

i would like to have a workshop shed near my house that is huge. i would like to have metal working equipment there like computer controlled lathes and laser cutters and forge presses and all the necessary machinery i would need to actually produce a physical mechanical design i think of.

i would like to provide my few friends with an area of their own on my property.
maybe 100 acres each (that is only 400 acres if my girlfriend is included)

i would like to build them each a simple house in their area. i would probably like to use demountable buildings.

there are a lot of temporary class rooms at schools that are "demountable"
here is a classic regular demountable classroom seen often in australia.


i think if you bolted 4 of them together and cut doorways into their adjoining walls so that they all are accessible to each other, then you would have a nice house with the possibility of many rooms.
demountable buildings usually cost about $20,000. they are also very strong as they are often demounted and transported around. they also must protect the kids inside from storms and falling trees etc.

there is a mild oversupply of them and they are not too expensive.

anyway, back to "utopia".

i would like for my friends to believe they earned their right to live in the dwellings i provide.

my friends are all rather maligned and unproductive people who are dead broke and have no real hope to get a job and prosper. (except for one but i do not include him in this scenario).

they are all nice people though. i would like them to develop interests that they focus on and not interrupt me often at my house. i would like to see them all smile and be happy at what they are doing and not include me.

i would like them to come to visit me about once per week each for a few hours, and then go home because they want to return to their warm beds.

i want to live my simple life without obstacles thrown in front of me by my "fellow species" .

i want to live far from the grind wheel of the world, but i want the world to be productive so i can benefit in my distant utopia from it.

1) People should live in small primitive bands where their sh***y ape brains can actually function effectively and to their personal satisfaction.

2) The dominant techno species on the planet would be some kind of race of super awesome robots.

lessee...it's a paperback, Black, I think it's a Penguin, sez it was written by a 'Thomas Moore'...there's even an imaginary alphabet it in...

What would your utopia look like? - In my view, living in the United States of America is a kind of current utopia vs how others have lived in the past. The standard of living of many Americans exceeds the standard of living of many kings and queens who lived thousands of years ago. Look at what is available at Walmart, Sam's Club, Sears, Nordstrom, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and so on - aspects of utopia (air conditioners in summer and heaters in winter, running water in homes all year around/cars - not horses) already exist today (my view).

Well tilled fields and honest toil.

ruveyn

It would look very different from the manner described in the book. As one of St. Thomas's most ardent fans (something he would find quite distasteful, I think), I have always enjoyed reading his work. I always get a cold shiver when some of my more left leaning acquaintances describe their love for the subtle parody of More.