Yes, oxymoron I know. But like many of you, I am stuck in :amerikkka:
So if you could pick anywhere to live in the States, where would it be? And why? Ideally where far left ideology is the norm.
Yes, oxymoron I know. But like many of you, I am stuck in :amerikkka:
So if you could pick anywhere to live in the States, where would it be? And why? Ideally where far left ideology is the norm.
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So many people think living on a commune is all laying in a hammock, walking goats on a leash and casual gardening.
Nope. It's constant hard work, starvation diets, everyone's fucking everyone and there's always cliques. Someone will be that guy who thinks they do all the work and everyone is lazy, and will try to "papa Smurf" the whole thing.
There are very few examples of communes that actually stand the test of time, and it's probably because there is a de facto heirarchy keeping the whole thing moving.
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You could testrun by having them stay over for a bit. There is the old saying: "Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."
It might even turn her off to the idea if it's sure to fail.
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I cannot overstate how many people end up financially ruined because they decided to live on a commune and things exploded a month or a year or five years later, leaving them with nothing and no way to leave.
As I'm sure most people who are reading this know, it's hard to stay friends with someone after living with them. That's been mostly true for me, with a very few exceptions.
Now, imagine taking that concept and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and buying property with them..
A lot of communes will let you visit and get a taste of the life. If she ever really pushes for it beyond just romanticizing it, maybe take her to one and scare her straight so to speak
The Villages out in Florida, but instead of hogs and libs shouting at each other in the community center its tankies and anarkies shouting at each other in the commune center
man, i only ever lived with friends and had pretty positive experiences
does this make me a doormat or something
Hard to say. Maybe you got lucky. Even when it seems good, you can look back on it and realize it was toxic.
I lived with my best friend once and we had the best time we could, but looking back, we were just stuck in a feedback loop of negativity and drinking beer to escape our problems.
Hopefully, you were one of the lucky ones. I only have a couple of people that I look back mostly fondly on when it comes to roommates
Oh yeah this sounds like a terrible idea lol
Why not meet them? To be honest pretty much all my friends are liberals, it is the nature of living in this country. Now, I'm not saying live with them, but really politics should not be the number one reason to reject friends given they are a baseline level of not shitty. If you're restricting yourself to MLs you're gonna have a bad time lol.
Tbh I would take vaushite socialist friends, at least we could agree on some things
This is probably true but maybe you could at least get to know them a little before judging them like this?
Most people can't go straight from an individualist mode of living to a communal mode of living. There are a lot of skills and habits and shared wisdom that need to be built for that; a lot has been written about this by FIC organizers.
There are many dimensions and degrees of communization. I would encourage picking a limited degree of this (anything from sharing food stamps to sharing a car or two amongst a group) and see how it goes.