Allan C ... Here's where our fanciful dreams get real sticky. The ONLY place I would ever consider retiring is right here in MY beautiful Northwest ... where there are clams, and salmon, and mountains, and steelhead, etc. And, most likely the ONLY place YOU would ever consider retiring is going to be someplace where I would never go.

Then, let's add some other issues besides where. Let's start talking about things like: how large a group; hetro sexual; homo sexual; pets; broccoli eaters, accordian players, on and on and on.

And yet, I have witnessed some successful communes, but I 'gotta tell you ... it takes a lot of dedication and it takes a lot of work! CHEERS, Bob