While I have dreamed to build a housing cooperative, we're not ready to persue Projects like that. Maybe in a decade!
I think I want to move to Port Angeles, WA or somewhere with a similar cost of living and climate and eventually build a home or a cabin some place around there. I have a lot of Anxiety around staying in the an earthquake region especially on the edges of water, but realistically everywhere in the US sucks and is going struggle to deal with Infrastructure and Climate Collapse inevitably. But i have money, and i can spend it on security right now. Remote tech work makes it feasible for me to be able to work thirty hours a week by 35 years old and in the meantime I could end up with a house paid off and just enough income to sustain myself and my home and still build savings, work more if I want to travel... I can just barely do this by myself, but inevitably I will fall in love again and these goals are things I'll want to share or at least come to common consensus with. Two people working together part time and camping and pulling food from our garden is quite a nice dream to share.
I need to have a Plan B too i guess, a set of criteria to leave the US for now or forever, I don't trust this place, and I hardly will trust Port Angeles and the quiet white supremacy of the Pacific Northwest. I need to find community wherever I go, I cannot continue to feel like an outcast.
Requirements:
Progressive Community
Climate Stability. onshore flows are nice
Permaculture Garden
Desires:
Local Tech Community (port angeles etc don't have this, far enough from seattle)
Lower Density
NEXT redraft this
Stage one: minimise and move
NEXT build an Inventory and use it to give away a lot of my shit
WAITING rent an apartment for six or twelve months in Port Angeles
State "WAITING" from "NEXT"
WAITING put a bunch in a storage unit in Seattle, take what I need to Port Angeles, WA
State "WAITING" from "NEXT"
Parameters for Home search "What kind of home do I want to live in"
There was a really nice cabin for 240k near port angeles and I kind of regret leaving it. What do I want in a house, and an area?
DONE Am I okay with living on the wildlife/urban interface?
DONE Size and styles
I could be happy with two bedrooms or three. Probably two.
Bedroom
Bedroom bathroom with tub
Living Room/Office with workstation and couch
Tea room + guest room
Kitchen
Front bathroom
I'd like a garage for some project space
I'd like a lot of natural light
I'd like enough yard to grow vegetables and native flora, and an HOA that won't shit on me for it.
lot size
really: how much space do I need for "feed myself" Gardening and my Growing and Processing Tea? a half acre?
infrastructure
high speed internet
corner store or grocery store in walking distance
grocery store in biking distance
within two hour drive of a decent airport
Where Do I want to live?
CANCELLED Plan a trip to Port Angeles to look at houses
Make a KML with
Zillow search results
Real estate agent offices
Plan a few neighborhood rides
Bring my bike on a GIG and explore a bit
see how bikeable the area is, see some places I could live in
DONE Plan a trip to Salem to look at houses
DONE visit Eugene, OR
DONE visit Olympia, WA
DONE Visit Victoria, BC
DONE list of places which have things i want access to
think about some other places to visit and walk/bike around
bike trails
camping
buddhist center, preferably zen
library system
bikeable
can live car-free
not many bugs
How do I live happily?
I have so much work to do, i am so afraid of becoming a hermit and a bastard, but I can manage this in My Living Systems and am.
These are the Hypergoals for life:
House Rules and healthy Practices, Tools for Self Discipline to fight slipping habits which make me healthier, make my systems healthier, or move me towards a Goal.
A life worth living, and some ways to live a fulfilling life with my mental health struggles
Open my home to friends and family
"I've got a guest bedroom and I'll pick you up in Bainbridge Island at the ferry terminal" and a simple way to schedule that with me
Institute an aggressive policy of Mutual Aide and of pushing my extra money in to issues and people I care about.
A Job Worth Keeping, figure out how i can work full time without wanting to die
In the second or third year, I think I could build a Garden big enough to meet most of my food needs -- I would love to be able to live on my garden and some bulk rice and local produce.
Integrate healthy online community
I will miss face-to-face conversations, build in video/voice chats, more discipline to show up when events happen and participate with my voice.