Posted on 09/01/2020 11:47:05 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Ok in concept, but some assigned Leader needs to screen the 19 families for trouble makers with Rap sheets.
Starting from zero-—actually sub-zero since there will be some land clearing costs.
They should do a go-fund-me.
I’ll withhold my “yeah, that’ll work”.
Toomsboro falls into the ‘freaking nowhere Georgia’ category of land area.
Hope they have good water and utilities.
Milledgeville (good sized college town, and thus the likely source of the commune/socialist/SJW tendencies here.) is NW and Macon is west.
Toomsboro is a town that economics forgot when the GA Central railroad ceased to have a life.
Small downtown is kinda quaint ... and quite unoccupied last time I drove through. We like to take back roads when we come home from Hilton Head back to north GA., and have seen MANY of these old small towns in middle-south GA.
Eventually they will HAVE to make ends meet, or the effort will dissipate on its own.
I wish them well.
Frankly it’s their right to do so.
But, it’s the spin of BLM they put on it.
Referring to the “jogger” who was shot and then the taser guy...yeah, and “systemic racism” by whites, of course. Yes, it’s whites who run your crappy Dem cities.
And I love the way they make it like they’re worried about WHITE people due to jogger. The hellhole of black cities run by blacks is not the reason. Oh no.
Someone better make sure that their permitting is all in order.
“Will the government force them to integrate?”
Or low-income housing, affirmative action, and all the other People’s Republic nonsense?
We shall see, I suppose.
Might be ‘some’ bottom land there, but no swampy marsh generally in middle GA
It would be called a white supremacist compound.
Are there any minimums to this DIY-racist-town concept?
We have 30 acres. It’s just my wife and I (and the dogs and chickens).
I hereby announce Chrisserville. No socialists allowed. Population: us.
This will be a chocolate city so bring Hershey’s if you visit.
“Whatever the outcome, it will be an interesting experiment.”
I’m glad you have a place to go, outside of Crazy Town, if things get scary.
I can’t begin to tell you how lucky and blessed I feel to NOT have to deal with any of the ‘in-town’ stupidity anymore at work. ;)
The ‘Recall Walker’ months were the worst. What a bunch of clowns in the store, wearing badges and t-shirts and sandwich boards, foisting their opinions on us all. *Rolleyes*
I LIKE that I’m ‘segregated’ from the Loony Leftists nowadays! :)
The last time Black people tried this, democrats got upset and burned down their mini-city.
“The Tulsa Greenwood Massacres”
“Someone better make sure that their permitting is all in order.”
Wonder what they’ll do when they find out that bringing in power might be maybe a $35K proposition, plus $12K per service drop...
And a sewer or septic system, I mean, name any number, could be $50-$80K...
Oh, and water..
I’d be surprised if the have the faintest idea what their startup costs might be. Maybe $400K.
“looked good on paper”.
“Crops and medical? Water, sewage? Garbage? Electricity? Good luck with y’alls plans.”
They plan to be self-supporting so, it’ll be a Shanty Town until everyone gives up and goes home. ;)
I think we will find that 19 families on 97 acres will not leave the space they need for farming, infrastructure, sewage treatment, water, and garbage. then they need roads, heavy equipment for maintenance, skilled farmers, skilled engineers, and almost all of the trades. Pretty much everything will have to come from the outside. Then of course, there is the cost of all of the infrastructure and building. I hope these people have lots of money. Their goal is nice, but their probability of success is slim.
Some advice not many Freepers know, I didn't, from the farm.
Hog made of cat, rat and dog By The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad
That part of GA (population of Toomsuba/Wilkinson is under 500) I doubt there is much permitting ;-)
That name doesn’t make sense.
You should name your town Democratville.
BTW I haven’t done it but I’ve heard of using chewing tobacco on bee stings and boils, port fat would probably work fine.
AND ... the soil there is VERY marginal, and summer rains can be quite fickle there.
Looks like they’re following the blueprint of Stonecrest, outside of Atlanta, GA, which was established in 2018:
How to Start Your Own City
A year ago this week, Jason Lary was sworn in as mayor of his brainchild, the brand new city of Stonecrest outside of Atlanta. Now Stonecrest is a frontrunner to land the new Amazon headquarters. How’d he do it?
Stonecrest was the first majority-black city to form from this cityhood movement in DeKalb County, and so far it is the only city to form in the county’s southern parts, where the bulk of the African-American population lives. There is currently another proposal to municipalize the remainder of South DeKalb into a city called Greenhaven, but it is meeting massive resistance.
It’s similar to the resistance that met Lary when he spearheaded the Stonecrest city effort. (“You cannot be a cotton ball for the kind of work I’m doing,” Lary told Rosen for The Atlantic. “It’s some Jimmy Hoffa-level work.”) For those who oppose cityhood in DeKalb County, the fears are, mostly, that residential property values will collapse and that taxes will rise, especially if the city has a majority non-white population. The research in general, does not support that anxiety, but Stonecrest, which has an almost completely black population, has at least a year’s worth of data from its own existence to test those claims.
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