wanna start a Dude-mune?

[Rev.Wendy aka The Dude a-Rides]

Like, a Dudely commune.
I live on the perfect island for such.
Get a bunch of us Dudes who can afford maybe $300 / month (Canadian) each...and rent some land with maybe a cottage/house, room for a couple trailers, etc.
Put together for food, or whathaveyou. Figure it out as we go along.
Child friendly of course. I'm sure we could find the right place.
Anyone in? I can contribute more rent cuz me and the achievers would need the main digs (or a good part of it ) for sleeping etc. Like, we'd need 2 of the bedrooms in the main house. or something.

[Rev.Wendy aka The Dude a-Rides]

I wasn't kidding, Duders!

[Nekonix]

I've actually been seriously considering relocating to a marijuana friendly place once I get some stuff taken care of. I tore my back up and after 3 surgeries the Doctors have told me that they don't really know whats up and it looks like I'll be on pain killers indefinitely. Right now I'm on some heavy narcotics, which one might think would be cool, but after a year and a half of taking them, it's not cool as it's got some unpleasant side effects. So I'd rather be able to smoke pot then take what I'm on now.

But, my daughter lives here, and I dunno if I could move very far away from her. Not unless I had enough money to fly out and see her regularly. But an island somewhere sounds really nice. All I'd need is a solid internet connection and I'd be set lol.

[not_exactly_a_lightweight]

I wasn't kidding, Duders!

Nice. What's the local chief of police think of this? D'you draw a lot of water in your town?

[Rev.Wendy aka The Dude a-Rides]

LOL i don't think the chief would have a problem as long as we kept our toes behind the line
there was a "freedom camp" up on the other side of one of our mountains. more like a party camp, as it turned out.
for a long long long time, many years, ppl would come and pitch tents in the harbour on crown land. eventually they were run off by locals, fed up with the garbage left behind. i was sad. i loved seeing those tents as i came into the harbour on the ferry. made me feel good that it was possible to live for free.

out here we have ppl living in vans, schoolbuses, tents, treehouses, shacks, above garages, etc.

i'm going to buy some land in a couple years. not sure what i'll do with it. my objective is to live as  nicely and at the same time as simply as possible. wind power, if possible , solar power/battery. rain barrels. chickens. organic garden. many here already live that way. ..i know one family totally off the grid. they live in a yurt  with all above mentioned.
for me, i'm thinking a double wide for me and the achievers. then room for tenters, etc.

[meekon5]

How about a drop in Dude-mune centre, say a Dude could stay for a few weeks then bugger off. so the dude-mune would exist all yearr round but would fluctuate as to who was there at any one point.

Probably too many in and outs for most people there, but I think you'll get what I'm trying to say. More a Dudeist drop in centre commune.

[Robert the Dude]

I can pitch a tent in six seconds flat, but you can't come in, there's barely enough elbow room for this dude.

[Rev.Wendy aka The Dude a-Rides]

for sure it would be a drop in Dude-mune! Dudes do like to wander eh? course it takes forever to get from the idea of leaving, to actually leaving. so rent/utilities would have to be paid during the stay

i'm gonna visualize it into being, man.

[Rev.Wendy aka The Dude a-Rides]

minimal fees for Dudes who will clean out the chicken coop and tend the gardens eh!

[meekon5]

...i'm gonna visualize it into being, man.

Build  it and they will come, Dude.

[Matt the Walrus]

I'm intrigued.

[Rev.Wendy aka The Dude a-Rides]

would have to be for true dudeists though, you know, not many emotional problems beyond pacifism. those that really practise the Dudeist way.

lotta "hippies" would love a free/cheap place to live, yet care more about partying and their personal freedom than actually helping out, you know, to pay Monty. don't want my rugs to get pissed on man, or my car to be used as a toilet.

anyhow, i look fwd to saying "oh, him? that's my current resident Dude."

[Dude1967]

would have to be for true dudeists though, you know, not many emotional problems beyond pacifism. those that really practise the Dudeist way.

lotta "hippies" would love a free/cheap place to live, yet care more about partying and their personal freedom than actually helping out, you know, to pay Monty. don't want my rugs to get pissed on man, or my car to be used as a toilet.

anyhow, i look fwd to saying "oh, him? that's my current resident Dude."

that's the hard part right there: keeping the cleft assholes and human paraquat from crashing the whole dude-mune into the goddamn mountain.  The whole idea is great though, it sounds like it could be done.  If you will it it is no dream.  In the parlance of our times.

[greatspiritmonk]

Wendy, you can count on me. Not now, as I've barely the money for cigarettes and some red wine, here it's cheaper than oat soda. But you can count me in, maybe not all the year round but that's definitely a great idea. A tree-house or a yurt would be just fine, my cats would adore that. And I don't piss on others' rugs, or cars. Not when I'm not completely drunk anyway. 

But as you rightly said you don't need ticks, those cleft assholes who want things for nothing. Maybe if the local cop is dude-like he can give you a hand. To keep your own Dude-garden clear of weeds and snails.

Fabulous stuff Wendy.

[Caesar dude]

I'm on my way Whiteheart...may take a couple of years but I'll get there!

Peace to all potential communeists.