I just spent all morning filling in their profile section. Its VERY thorough. Would be nice if actual ICs were also on there. Oh, why is it so challenging to find a safe place to live, and garden, and bake bread, and make wine, and farm a commodity, and have a happy and loving community to share all that?
sigh
To answer your question of āwhy so challengingā would take a few books on psychology, economics, and politics eh? All of us dreamers are still trying!
About your first point, the FIC directory already does a great job listing what intentional communities are established and open to new members. Now that you did all that work, thereās nothing to stop you from sharing your profile link with communities youāre interested in. They would get a lot of useful information about what you could offer and whether youād be a good cultural fit. If youāre interested in why itās important to keep individual profile listings separate from listings of established intentional communities, read here.
TY makes sense. Funny thing, not long after i made the profile someone contacted me on Permies. Funny how that works out.
Whatās a good way to share your icmatch.org profile? Is there a share button or something?
Thereās nothing on the site that will allow one to share, other than copying the link to your profile, but only when you enter it from the āMatch for Freeā page.
Thanks! Here is mine: Match for free! - Cooperative Living Communities
why not just use these forums? lol. more work
I donāt agree with their formā¦ I feel itās a bit intrusive [upfront].
these forums? ya they are a mess. but the .org is run by the site? lol
Hi POW, you wrote me, I asked for references. No reply.
On icmatch: I would prefer prose. The checking of boxes all sound the same. Are you choosing friends based on how they do dishes? All aspects very vague. Such as ā yes have resourcesā means? The msg section purges aft a month so you may miss some. Seems ppl say they want to grow foodā¦ that someone else grows for them. Iām on the team up section, Uneeda Farm. Avoid the Rush. C
I sent you the best I could do as far as who I am, what I am like. The past 12 years of my life has seen any and all of my friends and family drop off. IOW Iāve not maintained any relationships that could allow me to persuade others to accept me into their fold. My bad.
All I can say is losing everything, learning you are autistic, not having anyone in your life believing that, losing an SO due to that, then having a supposed BFF send you off to a place where you spend the next 8 years as a literal āindentured servantā to your own sibling, a psycho, who moves every year, then learning the full truth about the world and the reality of the current socioeconomic system (becoming fully radicalized as a leftist)ā¦
gets one trying to understand just the best/correct way that People SHOULD live in order to honor the rest of the life on this planet, as well as not destroy the only biosphere We have available to Us as We try to survive. Iāve learned more in the past 6 years than Iāve ever had the 48 years prior. Not only understand, but do so in practice. My psycho sister has cut me off of that. So I beg for communities to take me in as is. Itās all I can do.
As it stands right now, Iāll be going to La Plate, MO in hopes White Rose takes me in, as well as meet the other communities in the area. Thereās no guarantee of anything, but this is the path my psycho sister has chosen for me. May she rot in hell.