Cozy get-togethers around a campfire, weekly community meal, singing songs, planting gardens, looking after farm animals.

Sounds pretty idyllic, right?

Kind of life a lot of people fantasize about, something like an endless summer camp.

A place to unplug from the chaos of the world and build real connections with the people around you.

A place where you might not know everybody when

you arrive, but you're quickly bound together by a shared sense of purpose, that you're here to

chart a new way of living for yourself and hopefully for future generations, a way this beautiful,

pure and healthy. In the woods of the Ozarks, near a tiny 400-personish town called Ravenden, a community called

Return to the Land claims to offer exactly that. Return to the land's pitch is simple.

Shared land, shared work, shared purpose. No need to leave a leave for a real life or a boring office

job. No dealing with difficult neighbors or the persistent

low-level anxiety of stranger danger. No feeling like you or your way of life is getting displaced.

Sound good? You want to join? Great. You just have to meet mostly one simple criteria. It's not based

on your income, not on your experience, not what you can

contribute even. All you have to be is white. Words and ideas can change the world. I hated

but I wanted to love my mother. I have a dream. I'll plead not guilty right now. Your only chance

is to leave with us. We live in a country where, hypothetically,

everyone should be able to live how they want, right? I mean, as long as you're not hurting

anyone else and depriving them of basic rights and freedoms, nothing should stop you from living

around people who think, talk, and live the way you do. Indeed, for many of us, this factors into choosing where we're going to live, even if it's not always at the conscious level. If we don't find ourselves live in some place out of necessity, say proximity to family members, a job, et cetera, we're usually drawn to places where people are similar to us. Right? This is definitely true for me. I fell in love with New Orleans,

especially the area of the bywater and the marony, because it's where a lot of artists live,

a lot of creatives, a lot of progressive people into creative expression. You see and feel

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