This post is mostly for my friend Steve, who is convinced of (but has little data to support) the idea that North Carolina is a bad state for single people, and thus would make a poor site for the hypothetical T6 Experiment in Communal Living and Discipleship (or T6 ECLAD, for short). “The Triangle” area of North Carolina (comprised of the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill) boasts the many elements vital to the T6 economy: major research universities for the academics like UNC, Duke and NC State; high tech (and high-paying, no doubt) companies for those more practically inclined (for example, those with *ahem* computer science degrees, perhaps?) including Cisco, DuPont, Freescale Semiconductor, GE, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Sony Ericsson, and Verizon, among numerous others; several NPR stations; throngs of smart, interesting and available young women (some probably even with southern accents); and inexpensive real estate. You can read a little more (but really not much more) in this Wikipedia article.
Also of interest, the Triangle's population is the most educated in the United States, with the highest number of Ph.D.s per capita. Sounds like an interesting place to me... how about you?
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wow, southern girls. I had better move there soon!
anyone get any good pics from Adam's wedding? Coye, we sure missed you there, along with the other T6ers that didn't make it. Strauss has a good story about our venture into the Canadian wilderness for breakfast. I'm still annoyed at the border guards.
Strauss asked about visions - Basically, I have my emerging visions for what role I'd like to play among the people I'm going to live around when I put down some fashon of roots. I'm sure we all do. But in terms of living around you folks particularly; I wouldn't articulate it in terms of a vision for what I'd like "it" to look like. Basically, the fact is I enjoy your company. I enjoy talking with you and spending time with you. Thus, I'm excited by the possiblity of living within some sort of proximity to some of you. I love that we have radically different views on things, that we go to differnt kinds of Churches, that we have differnt kinds of jobs-- I think we have a lot to offer each other as members of the same body since we are so different.
It's late and I got to get to my reading... but this is certainly interesting to me to talk about.
yeah I'd like that too. I think when Strauss said "it", he meant details about the kind of things you mentioned, like what kind of proximity, etc...
Personally, I prefer proximity on the order of the Graham house. Well, maybe we have to make concessions for the married folks, who now make up almost half of our number.
In terms of proximity, I imagine simply moving (into houses and apartments) to the same area at first. Then we could talk about any next steps after a while. Co housing might be a long term goal, for example. But that's certainly not the only availible option.
I'm up for any and all experiments in communal living that will be taking place in the central part of Austin, Texas over the course of the next 4-6 years.
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