A New Hope: Starting a new kind of off-grid community

We have celebrated two Christmases here.
We have celebrated two Halloweens with the nine of us opting for a community harvest dinner (and still dressing up) as opposed to driving into town.
Twice, we have dug under our garden and twice we have reaped the benefits. 

We do all sorts of things here and sometimes we go for days without seeing each other.  Carol sometimes rents her house out for three months at a time to people she trusts.  We had parties when each of us made our last payments on our houses and our land.  We are a family.

For the past week I have been talking about everything that is wrong with City in the Woods and how hard it was to start.  I talked about how annoyed I was with other people and how of the many who reached out to us, a very select few were chosen and in the end, nine of us found happiness.  Yes I talk a good game about all of the things I hated about this, but things have never been better.

Now we are on to the next thing; The next city in the woods.  We are going to break it down for you, the good, the bad, and the ugly.  We have been looking for people.  We have been deciding on land and we are thinking ahead.

Next step: Forming a tribe or going alone...