For people who want to join one, not start one
I want to join a community
For people who want to live in one rather than start one — from the vocabulary to the visit.
7 steps 60 min of reading free, no account
What you will be able to do
01
Say what an intentional community actually is, and what it is not
02
Tell the main forms apart well enough to know which suits you
03
Picture an ordinary week before you commit to one
04
Work out what joining would cost you — entry, monthly, and on the way out
05
Know what you would legally own, and whether a lender would touch it
06
Read a membership process from the outside, including how it says no
07
Arrive at a visit with the right questions and an honest answer for yourself
The path
7 steps, in order
- What is an intentional community? The definition that actually predicts daily life, and the three things people confuse it with.
- The forms, told apart Four forms, and the single question that sorts them — what is actually held in common?
- What daily life actually looks like A week, concretely — meals, work, meetings, noise and the privacy nobody warns you about.
- What joining costs Three numbers — entry, monthly, exit — and why the third is the one that changes the answer.
- Owning, leasing, renting The four legal shells, what you could sell, and the mortgage question answered directly.
- Membership: getting in, and getting out The stages, what a fair membership agreement contains, and why a good process protects you as much as them.
- Is this for you — and how to find one The reasons not to do it, stated first — then directories, visits, and the whole guide's questions in one place.
- Path complete Then: Find a community that fits.
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