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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2019
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    Is there *any* example of this working, ever? The idea keeps coming up. Closest I can think of is the crypto crowd moving to Puerto Rico, but that’s 99% explained by huge tax incentive.https://twitter.com/utotranslucence/status/1111514362831732736 …

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    Ḟreyjạ @utotranslucence
    How many people you like would it take agreeing to move to X small city that is cheap but lacking community/social life for you to want to move there? You could make a Kickstarter-like-thing out of this. https://twitter.com/BennettJonah/status/1111418408589889543 …
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      2. Lawrence of Dystopia‏ @laprice 18 Apr 2019
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        The mid-2000s movement of Libertarians to New Hampshire did not work out very well. Nor did the Rajneeshis attempted takeover of Antelope. Community is harder than it looks.

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      3. Tom‏ @GabbyMcNabb 18 Apr 2019
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        There has been a second wave of libertarians to New Hampshire in the last five years. Is it too soon to call it a failed move?

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      2. Ḟreyjạ‏ @utotranslucence 18 Apr 2019
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        The 'getting people to agree to move' part, or the 'community flourishing once it's there' part? Communal nomadism has been around for millennia and i would expect you of all people to be familiar with success stories :)

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2019
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        Nomad communities *start* together with socially and economically entangled and portable lives (eg herding). There are no examples I know of of people converging from loosely connected network to intentional community. There’s a libertarian crowd trying to do that in NH.

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      1. dr. uphold shi zhiyong thought  🇨🇳  🐙‏ @koaleszenz 18 Apr 2019
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        there's paulville, a community of ron paul supporters in texas. you can decide for yourself whether it's "worked": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulville 

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      1. Jay Dugger‏ @JayDugger 18 Apr 2019
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        Worked for the Mormons, more than once. Poor relations with the neighbors aside... (Now with correct spelling)

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      2. mtraven‏ @mtraven 18 Apr 2019
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        Hippies, San Francisco, 1967. Given a list definition of "working".

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      3. mtraven‏ @mtraven 18 Apr 2019
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        "list" → "loose". That is, they got like-minded people to converge on a single city, although there wasn't much of an idea about what to do with them when they got there, and the scene very quickly disintegrated.

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      2. Brandon Hudgeons‏ @bhudgeons 18 Apr 2019
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        Marfa, TX

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 Apr 2019
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        Who moved there?

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