I'm for Lamarca's idea. I don't want to live in some communal array. It might be cool to have a number of 'Cstters move to the same general area.

Marge and I have been looking into the Northern Neck of Virginia for the past six months. It's that piece of land that lies between the Potomac and Rappahanock Rivers. It isn't on the way to anywhere, it's out of the way. Land is cheap and available. Economy is depressed because there no industry wants to move into the isolated area. Only about 40,000 people live there (I know that's crowded by Montana standards). But it is surrounded on three sides by water so there the opportunity for water sports (no 'Spaw, not those water sports!) is plentiful.

Yet Richmond is only 90 minutes away and DC is only two hours away (too far for the commuters).

I suspect we have such diverse interests that there would have to be a few enclaves, but this might make a good one for the East Coasters. It ain't quite the ocean Anna, but the Bay is awfully big.

Roger in Baltimore