and raise money, cooks who could bake, designers who could make - and do all this as part of community living. The playground has to be level from the get-go and the system we live in today has never been that way. For this to work, it cannot be about how much money people can chip in to buy the place and I doubt that anyone is in a position to go and buy it outright and then just let anyone go and live there and share. Though this is also a possibility... and at the place I've mentioned below it does happen - in their case it's called 'karma yoga'. I've done it a few times. Even though it's a spiritual 'yoga' community, the Yasodhara Ashram in British Columbia is paradise. If you're under 30 you can go and live there for free providing you are willing to work. But the work is so lovely, gardening, picking vegetables, cleaning, building, chopping wood etc. If you read how Swami Radha set about starting this community it is an amazing story. This tiny middle-aged German lady was a strong woman and today it's a magnificant yoga retreat. I think you'd like reading her story. Anyone else been there? Also, a lot of people born in the US and Europe have never been to Asia cannot appreciate what it has to offer. I've lived there and am going back to live there in 3 weeks time and cannot wait to get back.