[Timpanagos1]

“See regulations against builders camping on their own property before building, county zoning ordinances against manufacturing, ordinances against auto repair on residential properties, etc.”

Not sure about that.

Most, if not all big cities have much more onerous regulations than small towns and rural areas.

[familyop]

Thank you for the reply. It's a good point. But there are not enough manufacturing efforts starting in those cities, either, unless American-"based" manufacturing on foreign soil is included.

Although it isn't pretty to stylish folks, much of the ingenuity is in small towns and rural areas. In my opinion, many more of us need to be joining efforts like the following, but with more self-educated and vo-tech technologists (hand-eye coordination developed from repairs in response to dire needs) instead of more "interns."

Marcin Jakubowski - The Open Source Economy | @marioninstitute
https://youtu.be/MIIzogiUHFY?t=35s

Open Source Ecology
http://opensourceecology.org/

[familyop]

"Most, if not all big cities have much more onerous regulations than small towns and rural areas."

By the way, I live in one of the more remote and sparsely populated counties in our country (on the CO Rockies). It's as regulated as many of the largest cities and more so than many others.

[tbw2]

The silliest one I saw recently was in an area zoned agricultural told they can’t have chickens, because of local zoning.

[familyop]

Oops. See comment #24 for some of the details.