Auroville

[honeydip]

Ì have an idea to buy some land in France with other people and start making something like Auroville in India. I have had a recent good idea on how to generate money for land taxes and externally bought food. People who want to live there would have to pay an initial lump sum of 30k. For that they will own a very small living quarters and have to take up a job within the community. Selection of people who live there will be very strict initially as will need the correct people to set the foundans. How popular would you say this would be?

[Tilly2]

honeydip, what is Auroville?

[honeydip]

It is where a group of people live within a community where no exchange of money occurs. They have their own school, doctors etc. They have tried to free themselves as much as they can from debt, money and try live a peaceful productive life.

[honeydip]

http://www.auroville.org/

[Tilly2]

Oh, I see. Like a commune.

[Tilly2]

So what happens to the money that the members make when they work in the community?

[tonyav]

Didn't the hippies in the 1960's try this sort of thing ?.

[jake-the-peg]

So it's a commune like Findhorn?

There's always been people up for these - usually they have some sort of 'spiritual' dimension to them.

The tales of woe of internal strife in such communities are legion

Finding 'correct' people with 30K will be a challenge I think

[honeydip]

All mony made would be going towards expansion of the project I suppose

[woofgang]

how popular would this be? somewhat less popular than tooth removal without an anaesthetic I would say.

[pastafreak]

I see nothing on the Auroville site about paying to join/live there.
Having to pay £30,000 up front seems to contradict the ethos of such a place.
It seems you just want a money making scheme. Auroville had the backing of UNESCO in order to get up and running-and it seems to have taken a good few years to do so.

[pastafreak]

Tilly2
So what happens to the money that the members make when they work in the community?

Maybe they don't actually make money-but barter instead.

[Tilly2]

Ohyes, pasta. getting paid peanuts! I get it now.

[honeydip]

30k is to help fund the project pasta. It is not a money making scheme in the slightest. Major construction work will have to occur for the buildings/ structures. 30k for a plpace in a new founded world would be amazing as far as I am concerned.

[emmie]

like a kibbutz? i wouldn't do it, asking for trouble..

[honeydip]

You have to make money in the world to survive. The best you can do is distance yourself from it

[emmie]

you should ask people who run hotels, B&B, pubs and anything to do with the public, you cannot distance yourself from it, ever.

[Baldric]

Seems a bit 'flakey' to me

http://www.auroville.org/

[pastafreak]

This is what it says about salaries on the Auroville site

'Salaries - Aurovilians are not permitted to earn a salary by Indian Govt regulations. Instead most receive a "maintenance" from the unit or service they work for, sufficient to meet their most basic needs. Many Aurovilians take no remuneration at all from the community, maintaining themselves entirely out of their own funds as a contribution towards the township, though they still contribute monthly to the Central Fund.'

So-where do 'residents' make money then? It seems they need to be financially independent before they join...or they need to not care about money,full stop,as the community will care for their basic needs.

[honeydip]

Its an eye opener if nothing else

[tonyav]

It sounds like the basis to communism though.