Jefferson’s Gulch

Ed Ipser - February 26, 2021

This is just a concept, not an actual offering (yet), but I want to invite a discussion to find out what others would value in a residential community.

https://sites.google.com/view/jeffersonsgulch/

The basic idea is to recreate a miniature Silicon Valley, a working community, for those escaping the real one and similar high cost urban areas.

Ideally, there would be some HNW individuals anchoring the community but mainly it would be for people who can work remotely, something many companies plan to allow even after the resolution of Covid.

Please share your thoughts.

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Climate is important as is the environment.  My taste runs toward mountains and wilderness close by(30 min drive)

 

I wouldn’t be a candidate.  I don’t like communities.  Actually, I don’t like being around most people.  🙂

 

In a residential community, I value public safety, fire and rescue and emergency management. I don’t assign a value to public schools regardless of me being an “empty nester” because if with children they would not be enrolled in the public schools.

Would not consider and residential community in a high tax area, to include real estate, personal property (eg car), business inventory taxes.

Per thoughts; about a decade or so ago, there was a national group of libertarian-oriented people seeking to relocate to New Hampshire so as to get away from the hustle-bustle of cities with high tax rates, high crime rates, etc.   Don’t know status of their project. Could be worth studying.

 

We have narrowed our search to the area of Prescott/Cottonwood/Sedona in AZ. It is quite close to some beautiful natural wilderness.

 

https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/blue-ridge/name-change/

Ed, While going through new posts for Sunday AM … I’m an early riser … had a mental flash re this thread titled “Jefferson’s Gulch” and a place my group will be doing some volunteer work.

Louisa County, Virginia has a few communities like you’re plans to set up.  They started with a hippie commune and now there’s even one that prohibits fossel fuel use. Louisa County is near the famous and large University of Virginia.

My volunteer project involves helping the mass immunization program soon to get bigger. This, of course, involves the county’s health department, part of the overall area’s health district.

The district recently had a name change. I’m posting the above link here as an aspect of history and current events and not for politics. Thomas Jefferson was a Virginia Governor. President and founder of Univ of Virginia. The “communes” of Louisa County have sophistication not found in many other places. Their “sheltering in place” can be called high quality.

 

https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/blue-ridge/name-change/

Ed, While going through new posts for Sunday AM … I’m an early riser … had a mental flash re this thread titled “Jefferson’s Gulch” and a place my group will be doing some volunteer work.

Louisa County, Virginia has a few communities like you’re plans to set up.  They started with a hippie commune and now there’s even one that prohibits fossel fuel use. Louisa County is near the famous and large University of Virginia.

My volunteer project involves helping the mass immunization program soon to get bigger. This, of course, involves the county’s health department, part of the overall area’s health district.

The district recently had a name change. I’m posting the above link here as an aspect of history and current events and not for politics. Thomas Jefferson was a Virginia Governor. President and founder of Univ of Virginia. The “communes” of Louisa County have sophistication not found in many other places. Their “sheltering in place” can be called high quality.