Dear_one wrote:
Don't forget about the codgers. Pensions are the ideal at-home income, and seniors typically need some community, and have a lot of experience. I'm more interested in going off-grid, and I think I'd make an ideal "adopted grandfather." I've got a pension that follows me anywhere, and lots of tools and know-how. The tools I'll leave behind, but I'd rather leave the instructions in an apprentice.
Yes absolutely a co-op is not allowed to discriminate on the basis of age for the purpose of membership, and I would imagine retirees and pensioners would most likely enjoy the concept of co-op living as well and they would easily make good applicants given the nature of a fixed and predictable monthly income.
Having lived off grid I'm less into the idea as a means of developing community and addressing chronic loneliness because it either requires having too many people in one space with not a lot of personal space OR it involves needing to purchase a large parcel of land so that a fairly large number of people can have some comfortable distances between each other.
There's The Greater World Taos Earthship community which would be great for hermeticism with an option for mild interaction with generally odd and out-there people. The plots are pretty spaced out (pun intended) enough for plenty of sanctuary away from your neighbors but close enough where it's conceivable that you could see another human being once a month or so. The entire community is plotted for 130 homes total and sits on 630 acres. At full occupancy it is a hair over Dunbar's numbers for a tribe considering that many homes are not single occupancy and currently many plots have yet to be built. Currently the community has 70 or so homes built.
I can go on and on and on about earthships I would love to build communities like these across the planet for everyone not just people on the spectrum. When it comes to addressing chronic loneliness I am not certain that the earthship community model is the most ideal, but is tremendously beneficial for the planet as a whole.
https://www.earthshipglobal.com/Chronic loneliness in people on the spectrum is something that moves me the most and also makes me feel like I have the power to make an impact because it just takes one person to be less lonely to make a world of difference.
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