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When I first started researching the Sunseed community in the remote south east of Spain, I couldn’t find its location anywhere on the website. When I asked why, they told me it was intentional. It was feared if this information was public, they would be inundated with squatters, wanderers and other nomads in no time. [...]

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Happiness in life = ?

WARNING – The following message contains hippie and idealistic philosophies that may cause extreme eye-rolling, incredulity and sarcastic comments. It may also highlight the fact the authors are yet another couple of jaded city slickers with a desire for “a simpler way of life” and might be anti-establishment, leftist radicals. For most of us in [...]

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Back in November, we had an innocent conversation with our Saigon couchsurfing host about a cool sustainable living community in Northern Thailand. Fast forward 4 months and we have changed our entire itinerary, exchanging our guidebooks for garden hoes and moving into a mudbrick house 50 kilometers north of Chiang Mai. View at Picasa The [...]

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