{"id":2274,"date":"2021-04-03T04:52:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T11:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2021-04-09T06:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:21:29","slug":"ejemplo-dos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2021\/04\/03\/ejemplo-dos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ejemplo Dos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every six hours or so one of the cats will come over and insist gently on the kind of attention they individually like best.<\/p>\n

Every six months or so, a clerkish wage slave who isn’t quite dead yet will peer into my wallet and say: <\/p>\n

“Is that … a picture of an avocado where your ID is supposed to be?”<\/p>\n

And I’ll say, yes, it is, but it’s just the picture they put on the food co-op membership card at my favorite place in the world to shop, for food, or anything else.<\/p>\n

Normally that’s the end of it. But if the conversation continued, I’d explain to them that I don’t keep up the membership for the member savings, because I don’t even yet live in the town where the co-op exists. <\/p>\n

In part I keep it paid up because I want to invest in the co-op still being there, if I ever do get to live in that town. <\/p>\n

In part, it gives me a poetical membership in that town.<\/p>\n

And in part, I do it because it’s a small exercise in anti-capitalism, which I believe in most deeply. <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

So I was very pleased to learn of a way to do housing in the same fashion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To oversimplify a bit, you decide which of the 11 RV Parks you want to be your home base. You give the co-op fifteen grand, and in return you get a lifetime lease on a lot there–a small lot by housing standards, but a large one by RV park metrics. Maybe 75 x 50. You park there and sleep there as much as you want. You pay a monthly of about 100-150 depending on the location for things like basic Internet and road maintenance, and I think the only other significant expense would be for electric. <\/p>\n

You can also build on the lot. A storage shed. A whole casita, as long as it doesn’t have a “bedroom” for zoning purposes (a bed, though, isn’t forbidden). <\/p>\n

In the meantime, you have access to trash, water, a clubhouse, a community garden, and typically workshops of some kind–one park has a metal shop, another one for woodwork–it depends.<\/p>\n

It depends, on what the people living there want and are willing to vote to support financially.<\/p>\n

Direct democracy in action.<\/p>\n

If you decide to leave, or kick the bucket, the lease reverts not to your heirs, but back to the co-op. It’s a non-profit, but that doesn’t mean there’s never any value added. Quite the reverse. <\/p>\n

It’s a perfectly practical and lovely communism. <\/p>\n

I love the idea.<\/p>\n

The biggest downside by my lights is simply that the nearest co-op venue is still a few hours off from the city I want to dwell in. <\/p>\n

That is a downside, but maybe also an opportunity. <\/p>\n

Developing that opportunity would likely cost more than 15K and 100 a month … <\/p>\n

… but still substantially less than a standard home in my dream town, where a truly habitable shelter starts becoming an option at somewhere around ten times as much. <\/p>\n

You can learn more about the existing 11 co-op parks the same way I did, through a personal experience of it related here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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