Wonder why "let's-build-a-new-society" types don't just take over towns like this instead of looking for islands atlasobscura.com/places/cairo-i
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Because you can't opt out of the whole federal and state government thing by buying up real estate?
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true everywhere, very little habitable terra nullius in the world
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want frontier w freedom from existing regimes. Self determination.
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because utopias are no fun if you have an actual chance at implementing them.
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Are you referencing the (largely stalled) attempt by Redditors to precisely that in Cairo, IL? reddit.com/r/ProjectCairo/
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To answer your rhetorical question: possibly surrounding crime & the ease which government can take it over if starts to do well








