Amazing. Edit: I actually meant the pimp, but that goes for the geodesic domes as well. But differently.

I'm all for a Buffista compound. But rather than sharing a huge building, I'd go for cluster homes around a communal kitchen-living area. I'd like a place to go breathe every now and then. A lotta now and then. I'll just be in the stairwell.

I culled and culled books before we left. Some went to the hospital book carts, some (carefully selected) to the adult and children's church libraries, and some to a local private school. The rest went to the local public library.

And when I unpacked and went through what we'd brought with us, I culled another eleven boxes, the 'small' U-Haul moving boxes, of books to the local public library, except one that went to the neighborhood library.

Every place was glad to get them. I might have been tempted to try and sell the newer popular fiction on ebay, but by then I wanted them available to be read more than I wanted the money, especially with the monitoring, packing, and mailing, etc. I know the public library put some of them in their semi-annual Friends of the Library sale, but some went straight on the shelves. That was easy, and made us feel really good.

We've done a lot of Restore and Veterans donations--the Veterans pick up--they're getting the loveseat and treadmill. Actually very little has gone to Goodwill, but even that means somebody may get some use out of what we don't need or use.

I shouldn't wait till once or twice a year, though. I should adopt msbelle's habit of ongoing purging, and keep up with the slow, unnoticed accrual.

Sigh. Sometimes I forget that I have terrible taste.

Ooh, geodesic domes, though!

I agree that a cluster of homes and/or apartments is the way to go.

If a building, make sure it has an elevator -- my friends who bought an apartment building together ~40 years ago are now realizing the stairs are kind of a problem! And there's no way to add an elevator, apparently. Or no reasonable way to do it.

Yes, there are several of us that would need elevators to start with. But I'm all for individual homes.

I am on board with the domes, though not with all of the wallpaper choices.

msbelle, you made the move possible.

Me & my neighbors joke about putting in a single ramp for the whole block, one elevator & knocking in a doorway between houses if it comes to that.

I know we are never doing this and yet my mind devotes a lot of time actually thinking about it. The thing with individual homes is getting land. Many people seem to prefer to be in a somewhat urban environ, lots of talk of walkability or closeness to grocery, and access to culture.

getting plots of land to build multiple dwellings means getting outside of those areas.

Apartment buildings would have ground floor units.

Another thought which I actually think would be awesome is a hotel. It would require reno create multi bedroom units and living areas, but they usually have elevators and also common spaces we could make into things like community libraries and theaters.

Apartment buildings would have to be much more sound dampening than any I have previously lived in.